These quotes about animals give us a good picture of why we need them in our lives, and why we ought to do everything we can to protect them. If you would like to share with us more quotes, please feel free to add it on the comment list. Thanks!
“I ask people why they have deer heads on their walls. They always say because it's such a beautiful animal. There you go. I think my mother is attractive, but I have photographs of her.”
― Ellen DeGeneres
“The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.”
― Mahatma Gandhi
“Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends.”
― George Bernard Shaw
“A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself.”
― Josh Billings
It is much easier to show compassion to animals. They are never wicked.
― Haile Selassie
"The question is not, can they reason? Nor, can they talk? But can they suffer?"
― Jeremy Bentham
“You can judge a man's true character by the way he treats his fellow animals.”
― Paul McCartney
“Animals don't hate, and we're supposed to be better than them.”
― Elvis Presley
“If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.”
― Woodrow Wilson
“If you don't own a dog, at least one, there is not necessarily anything wrong with you, but there may be something wrong with your life.”
― Roger Caras
“If slaughterhouses had glass walls, the whole world would be vegetarian.”
― Linda McCartney
“Lots of people talk to animals... Not very many listen though... that's the problem.”
― Benjamin Hoff
"I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being."
--Abraham Lincoln
“Whoever said you can't buy Happiness forgot little puppies.”
― Gene Hill
“...only someone who'd never been an animal would put up a sign saying not to feed them....”
― Jonathan Safran Foer
“I don't believe in the concept of hell, but if I did I would think of it as filled with people who were cruel to animals.”
― Gary Larson
“An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language.”
― Martin Buber
“One disadvantage of being a hog is that at any moment some blundering fool may try to make a silk purse out of your wife's ear.”
― J.B. Morton
“You can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.”
― James Beverly
“More often than not, what animals require our protection from are not hurricanes or fires, but abuse at the hands of other people".”
― Julie Klam
