Judgment Day

We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.

- Immanuel Kant

Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticism.
- George Elliot

The best thing about animals is that they don't talk much.
- Thornton Wilder

An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language.
- Martin Buber

Until one has loved an animal, a part of one's soul remains un-awakened.
- Anatole France

The behavior of men to lower animals, and their behavior to each other, bear a constant relationship.
- Herbert Spencer

Which of us has not been stunned by the beauty of an animal's skin or its flexibility in motion?
-Marianne Moore

Man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to.
- Mark Twain

Men! The only animal in the world to fear.
- D.H. Lawrence

Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal.
- Alexander Hamilton

It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.
- Mark Twain

There is no fundamental difference between man and the higher mammals in their mental faculties...The difference in mind between man and the higher animals, great as it is, certainly is one of degree and not of kind.
- Charles Darwin

Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.
-Thomas A. Edison

Now I can look at you in peace; I don't eat you any more.
-Franz Kafka

The assumption that animals are without rights, and the illusion that our treatment of them has no moral significance, is a positively outrageous example of Western crudity and barbarity. Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
-Arthur Schopenhauer



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