Browsing Topic Best Animal Quotes

The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man.

Love the animals, love the plants, love everything. If you love everything, you will perceive the divine mystery in things. Once you perceive it, you will begin to comprehend it better every day. And you will come at last to love the whole world with an all-embracing love.

A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.

There is no fundamental difference between man and animals in their ability to feel pleasure and pain, happiness, and misery.

You cannot play with the animal in you without becoming wholly animal, play with falsehood without forfeiting your right to truth, play with cruelty without losing your sensitivity of mind. He who wants to keep his garden tidy does not reserve a plot for weeds

Poetry is the journal of the sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air. Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable. Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.

The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that’s the essence of inhumanity.

What greater gift than the love of a cat.

A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies becomes unable to recognize truth, either in himself or in anyone else, and he ends up losing respect for himself and for others. When he has no respect for anyone, he can no longer love, and, in order to divert himself, having no love in him, he yields to his impulses, indulges in the lowest forms of pleasure, and behaves in the end like an animal. And it all comes from lying – lying to others and to yourself.

True benevolence or compassion, extends itself through the whole of existence and sympathizes with the distress of every creature capable of sensation.

Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.

If toast always lands butter-side down, and cats always land on their feet, what happens if you strap toast on the back of a cat and drop it?

We experience ourselves, our thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest. A kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us.

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

All animals are born with innocence, curiosity and love.

I have always felt that the way we treat animals is a pretty good indicator of the compassion we are capable of for the human race.

Animals are my friends… and I don’t eat my friends.

All male animals, including men, when they are in love, are apt to behave in ways that seem ludicrous to bystanders.

It is humankind’s duty to respect all life, not only animals have feelings but even also trees and plants.

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 man learns to respect even the smallest being of creation…nobody has to teach him to love his fellow man. Compassion for animals is intimately connected with goodness of character, and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to animals cannot be a good man.

Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile.

I am a huge animal lover. I prefer to rescue any of the pets that I have had.

Let a man fear, above all, me, his God, and so much the gentler will he become toward my creatures and animals, on whom, on account of me, their Creator, he ought to have compassion.

Dogs don’t rationalize. They don’t hold anything against a person. They don’t see the outside of a human but the inside of a human.

All his life he tried to be a good person. Many times, however, he failed. For after all, he was only human. He wasn’t a dog.

Life is as dear to a mute creature as it is to man. Just as one wants happiness and fears pain, just as one wants to live and not die, so do other creatures.

Psychology is the science of the intellects, characters and behavior of animals including man.

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.

Never believe that animals suffer less than humans. Pain is the same for them that it is for us. Even worse, because they cannot help themselves.

My doctrine is this, that if we see cruelty or wrong that we have the power to stop, and do nothing, we make ourselves sharers in the guilt.

There is no religion without love, and people may talk as much as they like about their religion, but if it does not teach them to be good and kind to man and beast, it is all a sham.

If a man aspires towards a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from injury to animals.

Treat other animals as friends and they become friends. Treat other animals as family and they become family. Give other animals your love and they will love you in return.

Dogs never bite me. Just humans.