Best Animal Testing Quotes

The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.

When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.

Animals can communicate quite well. And they do. And generally speaking, they are ignored

If you have men who will exclude any of God’s creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men.

Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals.

The squirrel that you kill in jest, dies in earnest.

It seems to me of great importance to teach children respect for life.

We must fight against the spirit of unconscious cruelty with which we treat the animals. Animals suffer as much as we do. True humanity does not allow us to impose such sufferings on them. It is our duty to make the whole world recognize it. Until we extend our circle of compassion to all living things, humanity will not find peace.

Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.

…It is a legal requirement to carry out animal testing to ensure they are safe and effective

The animal testing regime… is utterly futile

I love to help women cut through all the labeling loopholes to find the best personal and oral care products on the market. This includes, of course, ingredients, but also recyclable packaging, products with expiration dates, examining company values (which includes no animal testing), and more.

There needs to be clearer communication for the public avout how valuable it [animal testing] is

Vivisection is a social evil because if it advances human knowledge, it does so at the expense of human character.

There will be no justice as long as man will stand with a knife or with a gun and destroy those who are weaker than he is.

When it comes to having a central nervous system, and the ability to feel pain, hunger, and thirst, a rat is a pig is a dog is a boy.

Because the heart beats under a covering of hair, of fur, feathers, or wings, it is, for that reason, to be of no account?

Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.

I ask people why they have deer heads on their walls. They always say because it’s such a beautiful animal. There you go. I think my mother is attractive, but I have photographs of her.

Animals are not brethren, they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time.

Man is the only creature that consumes without producing

During my medical education at the University of Basle I found vivisection horrible, barbarous and above all unnecessary

If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons.

I had bought two male chimps from a primate colony in Holland. They lived next to each other in separate cages for several months before I used one as a [heart] donor. When we put him to sleep in his cage in preparation for the operation, he chattered and cried incessantly. We attached no significance to this, but it must have made a great impression on his companion, for when we removed the body to the operating room, the other chimp wept bitterly and was inconsolable for days. The incident made a deep impression on me. I vowed never again to experiment with such sensitive creatures.

I vowed never again to experiment with such sensitive creatures.

One of the things that I have seen change that warms the cockles of my heart is what is happening in the cosmetics industry. For years, they were doing horrible things to animals in the manufacture of cosmetics, and testing of the most barbaric types; today, if you go into a drugstore and go down the [cosmetics] aisle, look at how many of them say no animal testing. I’ve talked with people who work in the cosmetics departments, and they tell me, Without that, you can’t sell them. And that’s wonderful!

The indifference, callousness and contempt that so many people exhibit toward animals is evil first because it results in great suffering in animals, and second because it results in an incalculably great impoverishment of the human spirit.

universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.

Giving cancer to laboratory animals has not and will not help us to understand the disease or to treat those persons suffering from it.

The assumption that animals are without rights, and the illusion that our treatment of them has no moral significance, is a positively outrageous example of Western crudity and barbarity. Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.

Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.

Very little of the great cruelty shown by men can really be attributed to cruel instinct. Most of it comes from thoughtlessness or inherited habit. The roots of cruelty, therefore, are not so much strong as widespread. But the time must come when inhumanity protected by custom and thoughtlessness will succumb before humanity championed by thought. Let us work that this time may come.