Best Compassion Towards Animals Quotes

Compassion brings us to a stop, and for a moment we rise above ourselves.

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.

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.

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

Compassion for animals is intimately associated with goodness of character, and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to animals cannot be a good man.

When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.

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

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

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.

Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.

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.

Kindness and compassion towards all living things is a mark of a civilized society. Conversely, cruelty, whether it is directed against human beings or against animals, is not the exclusive province of any one culture or community of people.

God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages.

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.

It is much easier to show compassion to animals. They are never wicked.

Man is the only creature that consumes without producing

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.

Animals are reliable, many full of love, true in their affections, predictable in their actions, grateful and loyal. Difficult standards for people to live up to.