Animals Humanity Quotes

#1. The veneer of civilization fell away to reveal desperate animals, humanity at their worst.

Travis Luedke

#2. To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being.

Mahatma Gandhi

#3. He fancied himself on his humanity towards animals, as so many people do who are inhuman to their fellow men ...

T.H. White

#4. And always the animals from each trip you bring back a gaze a pose a gesture that points to the truest of humanity better than images of humanity itself

Chris Marker

#5. It seems to me perfectly possible to act humanely towards other beings, whether humans or animals or plants. One simply has to learn how to behave. To behave "humanely" it is perfectly possible to do without the notion of "humanity."

Talal Asad

#6. Even if mankind can go on without them, a piece of our vibrantly diverse world dies along with each species.

Dieter Braun

#7. If he sees his fellow humans as anything more than complicated animals. Not so different from a deer or a wolf, knitted together with the same sinew but in another design.

Benjamin Percy

#8. If I were given a choice, I would stand by Eve and eat that forbidden apple once again. Why? I know there is beauty and meaning and significance in the complexity of our lives on earth. Otherwise, we are just animals. I prefer us to be human.

J.D. Radke

#9. We talk of wild animals but man is the only wild animal. It is man that has broken out. All other animals are tame animals; following the rugged respectability of the tribe or type.

G.K. Chesterton

#10. The world is better without
them.
only the plants and the animals are
true comrades.
I drink to them and with
them.

Charles Bukowski

#11. The war against the Canadian seal hunt is more than a protest. It is a crusade to bring harmony between the natural world and humanity. All of us who oppose it are dedicated to the protection of life and the abolition of cruelty.

Paul Watson

#12. Events cast their shadows ahead; before a harsh winter, wild animals grow thicker fur, and the beaver puts on a thicker layer of fat. What kind of times and what sort of tasks can lie ahead for a generation that must think so harshly, even at such a young age, in order to survive?

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#13. There is in all animals a sense of duty that man condescends to call instinct.

Robert Breault

#14. If you are low on self confidence and your life sucks, become a vegetarian. You will nag on other human beings and hate them so much for abusing animals that you would have no free time to remember how miserable your own life is!

Hamidreza Bagheri

#15. When the sun shines, plants are happy.
When plants grow, animals are happy.
When animals flourish, man is happy.
When man thrives, God is happy.
When God smiles, the universe is happy.
When the universe smiles, all is happy.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#16. It wasn't so long ago when all the so-called scientists said that humans were intelligent and that animals weren't, humans were the solitary unchallenged masters of the globe and probably the universe and the only question was whether we were handling our mastery well. (No. Next question.)

Robin McKinley

#17. Anyone who tries to improve the lives of animals invariably comes in for criticism from those who believe such efforts are misplaced in a world of suffering humanity.

Jane Goodall

#18. What separates man from animal is not the things we build or the ideas we stand behind. Its our ability to kill from a distance that makes us different

Peyton J Glenn

#19. becoming like the gods" by mixing humanity with both animals and machines,

Rob Skiba

#20. Non-violence is more powerful than violence. Nature eliminates violent animals bit by bit.

Amit Ray

#21. I think the rapidly growing tendency to regard animals as born for nothing except slavery to so-called humanity absolutely disgusting.

Victor Gollancz

#22. Civilisation is very fragile. All it takes is a few decades of chaos for us to forget humanity and turn into animals.

Amish Tripathi

#23. Humans were the weakest species. Maybe that was why they could be the meanest animals.

James Patterson

#24. My Sunday school teachers had turned Bible narrative into children's fables. They talked about Noah and the ark because the story had animals in it. They failed to mention that this was when God massacred all of humanity.

Donald Miller

#25. In zoos, along with the animals, the humanity of man is also prisoned! No cage is humane!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#26. There was a difference between killing for nourishment and killing for curiosity or sport.

Nenia Campbell

#27. My life is flashing lights and pointing fingers and uninvited visitors. Inches away, humans flatten their little hands against the wall of glass that separates us.
The glass says you are this and we are that and that is how it will always be.

Katherine Applegate

#28. When humans act with cruelty we characterize them as "animals", yet the only animal that displays cruelty is humanity.

Anthony D. Williams

#29. Sometimes, humanity surprises me with all its lack of control over the primordial urges. These innate urges are the biological traits that make us similar to the rest of the animal kingdom. But the modern qualities that make us superior to all the animals are intellect and self-control.

Abhijit Naskar

#30. Don't you find it a beautiful clean thought, a world empty of people, just uninterrupted grass, and a hare sitting up?

D.H. Lawrence

#31. When humanity serves Nature, Nature serves humanity. When we serve animals and plants, they too serve us in return.

Mata Amritanandamayi

#32. No other creature on the face of this planet inflicts more suffering than humans.

Mischa Temaul

#33. In a meat-eating world, wearing leather for shoes and even clothes, the discussion of fur is childish.

Karl Lagerfeld

#34. Circus is an absolute disgrace of the humanity! Real clowns are those who support and maintain the circuses! Honourable men want a simple thing: Along with freedom for men, freedom for Animals too!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#35. Hatred of humanity and love of animals make a very bad combination.

Konrad Lorenz

#36. Most creatures run when they sense danger. People grab a six-pack and a folding chair.

Nenia Campbell

#37. It is remarkable indeed how we human beings are capable of delighting in the mating call of a flower while we are surrounded by the charred carcasses of our fellow animals.

Mohsin Hamid

#38. As human beings we each have a responsibility to care for humanity. Expressing concern for others brings inner strength and deep satisfaction. As social animals, human beings need friendship, but friendship doesn't come from wealth and power, but from showing compassion and concern for others.

Dalai Lama

#39. We are only fully human when we act as if the life beyond us matters.

Caspar Henderson

#40. Certainly it is wrong to be cruel to animals and the destruction of a whole species can be a great evil. The capacity for feelings of pleasure and pain and for the form of life of which animals are capable clearly impose duties of compassion and humanity in their case.

John Rawls

#41. I think there is just a vein of humanity that really loves animals and really loves to read about them.

Sara Gruen

#42. Without animals, there would be no humanity. In a world of just people, people will mean nothing ...

Chuck Palahniuk

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

Ashley Montagu

#44. There was nothing humane about humanity. At the end of the day, they were all
animals with only survival instincts.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#45. Our humanity isn't measured by how we treat other people, our humanity is measured by how we treat animals.

Chuck Palahniuk

#46. Humanity's true moral test, its fundamental test, consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals. And in this respect humankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it.

Milan Kundera

#47. Anytime you work with animals, you begin to see more humanity in them.

Tim Allen

#48. If we look straight and deep into a chimpanzee's eyes, an intelligent self-assured personality looks back at us. If they are animals, what must we be?

Frans De Waal

#49. Wild animals bite the hand that feeds them. Clever people consume the entire body.

Stefan Emunds

#50. The perfect woman is a higher type of humanity than the perfect man, and also something much rarer. The natural history of animals furnishes grounds in support of this theory.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#51. Humanity evolves when we realise that animals have the same rights to the Earth as we do.

Radhanath Swami

#52. It's like we have the bones of animals and the hearts of angels.

Baxter Clare Trautman

#53. Compassion for humanity begins with compassion and respect for all beings.

Jeffrey A. White

#54. What is the use of this fuss about morality when the issue only involves a horse? The first and most difficult teaching of civilisation concerns man's behaviour to his inferiors. Make humanity gentle or reasonable toward animals, and strife or injustice between human beings would speedily terminate.

Edward Mayhew

#55. Civilization is very fragile, all it takes is a few decades of chaos for us to forget humanity and turn into animals. Our base natures can take over very fast. We can forget that we are sentient beings, with laws and codes and ethics.

Amish Tripathi

#56. Of all living things, only humans consciously anticipate death; the consequent need to choose how to behave in its face - to worry about how to die - distinguishes us from other animals. The need to manage death is the particular lot of humanity.

Drew Gilpin Faust

#57. The striving of humanity for knowledge and truth [can] not be suppressed. The growth of the spirit [is]an essential part of Creation; it was planned like the growth of the body, of the plants and animals and people - every living thing that God had created.

Peter Prange

#58. Even the Middle Ages, which condemned and punished animals in due form, was in this way much closer to them than we are. They held them to be guilty: which was a way of honoring them. We take them for nothing, and it is on this basis that we are "human" with them.

Jean Baudrillard

#59. The whole horror of the situation is that he now has a human heart, not a dog's heart. And about the rottenest heart in all creation!

Mikhail Bulgakov

#60. Wild animals are less wild and more human than many humans of this world

Munia Khan

#61. Intoxication, like sexual euphoria, is the privilege of the human animal.

Roman Payne

#62. Unlike the animals, who knew only the present, Man had acquired a past; and he was beginning to grope toward a future.

Arthur C. Clarke

#63. I think using animals for food is an ethical thing to do, but we've got to do it right. We've got to give those animals a decent life and we've got to give them a painless death. We owe the animal respect.

Temple Grandin

#64. Humanity has determined it is supreme in the kingdom of animals, yet [the] beasts live a less tragic existence ... and many of their tragedies are a consequence of so-called human brilliance.

T.F. Hodge

#65. I once believed man was different from other animals, but Yodok showed me that reality doesn't support this opinion. In the camp, there was no difference between man and beast, except maybe that a very hungry human was capable of stealing food from its little ones while an animal, perhaps, was not.

Kang Chol-Hwan

#66. Especially when it comes to animals used for food, humanity's reasoning power and concern about fairness plummets.

Karen Davis