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A man that don’t love a Horse, there is something the matter with him. If he has no sympathy for the man that does love Horses, then there is something worse the matter with him.
Will Rogers1879–1935The Illiterate Digest (1924)
Without perfect sympathy with the animals around them, no gentleman’s education, no Christian education, could be of any possible use.
John Ruskin1819–1900Speech to the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (1877), in Arrows of the Chase, vol. 2
- Education
A dog cannot relate his autobiography; however eloquently he may bark, he cannot tell you that his parents were honest but poor.
Bertrand Russell1872–1970Human Knowledge: Its Scope and Limits (1948), part II, chapter 1, p. 74
- Comedy
Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace.
Albert Schweitzer1875–1965Kulturphilosophie (1923)
- Nature
When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport: when the tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity. The distinction between Crime and Justice is no greater.
George Bernard Shaw1856–1950Maxims for Revolutionists (1903), #62
- Justice
Speciesism⁠—the word is not an attractive one, but I can think of no better term⁠—is a prejudice or attitude of bias in favor of the interests of members of one’s own species and against those of members of other species.
Peter Singerborn 1946Animal Liberation: A New Ethics for our Treatment of Animals (1975), Ch. 1: All Animals Are Equal
- Morality
Nobody ever saw a dog make a fair and deliberate exchange of one bone for another with another dog.
Adam Smith1723–1790The Wealth of Nations (1776), Book I, Chapter II, p. 14.In context
- Economics
“Pieces of eight! Pieces of eight! Pieces of eight!”
Robert Louis Stevenson1850–1894Treasure Island (1883), Part Two: The Sea-cook, Chapter XIn context
- Money
He clasps the crag with crooked hands;
Close to the sun in lonely lands,
Ring’d with the azure world, he stands
Alfred, Lord Tennyson1809–1892The Eagle (1851)In context
- Nature
The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls;
He watches from his mountain walls,
And like a thunderbolt he falls.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson1809–1892The Eagle (1851)In context
- Nature
The bluebird carries the sky on his back.
Henry David Thoreau1817–1862Journal (3 April 1852)
- Nature
I have no doubt that it is a part of the destiny of the human race, in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals, as surely as the savage tribes have left off eating each other when they came in contact with the more civilized.
Henry David Thoreau1817–1862Walden (1854), Higher LawsIn context
- Food
A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite. And to act so is immoral.
Leo Tolstoy1828–1910Writings on Civil Disobedience and Nonviolence (1886)
- Food
- Morality
I believe that our Heavenly Father invented man because he was disappointed in the monkey.
Mark Twain1835–1910
- Anti-God
It is just like man’s vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.
Mark Twain1835–1910What Is Man? (1906), Ch. 6