Quotes About Treating Animals Well

#1. We have to realize that treating animals well is in our best interests, too. Cruelty is indivisible; when you are cruel to an animal, you are training yourself to be cruel to people, too (and vice versa).

Jonathan Balcombe

#2. Permaculture is a philosophy of working with, rather than against nature; of protracted and thoughtful observation rather than protracted and thoughtless labor; and of looking at plants and animals in all their functions, rather than treating any area as a single product system

Bill Mollison

#3. Sometimes I still worry that the next day will be the last day of the Earth.

Samantha Smith

#4. Humankind won't find peace as long as we're treating feeling animals as if they were so many blocks of wood.

Jonathan Balcombe

#5. I am personally not against keeping animals at zoos, as they serve a huge educational purpose, but treating them well and with respect seems the least we could do, and with 'we' I mean not just zoo staff, but most certainly also the public.

Frans De Waal

#6. Humans treat animals as things that exist as means to human ends. That's morally wrong. Sexism promotes the idea that women are things that exist as means to the ends of men. That's morally wrong. We need to stop treating all persons - whether human or nonhuman - as things.

Gary L. Francione

#7. You quit treating people like animals and maybe I'll consider it.

James Dashner

#8. When I go home my mother and I play a cannibal game; we eat each other over the years, tender morsel by morsel until there is nothing left but dry bone and wig. She is winning-needless to say she has had so much more experience.

Maureen Howard

#9. The prima facie evidence provision in this case ignores all of the contextual factors that are necessary to decide whether a particular cross burning is intended to intimidate. The First Amendment does not permit such a shortcut.

Sandra Day O'Connor

#10. My view is that we stand up for treating the animals in a considerate way, for completely renouncing the eating of meat and also for speaking out against it. This is what I do myself. And in this way many a one becomes aware of a problem that was put forward so late.

Albert Schweitzer

#11. When we all pass from this life and gather on the other side, the only thing each of us will have is his own story to tell.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#12. I made mistakes. My supporters and I failed to prevent a main like [Mikhail] Saakashvili from acquiring absolute power. I should have criticized him earlier on.

Irakli Okruashvili

#13. Steve Irwin did wonderful conservation work but I was uncomfortable about some of his stunts. Even if animals aren't aware that you are not treating them with respect, the viewers are.

David Attenborough

#14. Our choices lie between the lesser of two evils, but it is still within our power to make these choices

Scott Peck

#15. The same way he treats animals and other vulnerable individuals is the same way he'll relate to your feminine side.

Nityananda Das