Emily Walker
Animal abuse comes in many forms, from neglect to physical and emotional abuse.
It’s a heartbreaking reality that affects millions of animals every year.
In order to raise awareness and take action against animal abuse, we’ve compiled 50 inspiring quotes that will inspire you to create positive change.
Whether you are looking for inspiration to fight for animal rights or need help understanding the gravity of animal abuse, these quotes will give you hope and strength to create an impact.
The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.
Mahatma Gandhi
Animals don’t have a voice, but I do. A loud one. A big mouth. My voice is for them. And I’ll never shut up while they suffer.
Ricky Gervais
The time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men.
Leonardo da Vinci
Cruelty to animals is one of the most significant vices of a low and ignoble people.
Alexander von Humboldt
Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.
Anatole France
The abuse of a harmless thing is the essence of sin.
A.W. Tozer
Compassion for animals is intimately associated with goodness of character, and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to animals cannot be a good man.
Arthur Schopenhauer
If you have men who will exclude any of God’s creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men.
St. Francis of Assisi
The only creatures that are evolved enough to convey pure love are dogs and infants.
Johnny Depp
Our treatment of animals will someday be considered barbarous. There cannot be perfect civilization until man realizes that the rights of every living creature are as sacred as his own.
Dr. David Starr Jordan
The question is not, ‘Can they reason?’ nor, ‘Can they talk?’ but ‘Can they suffer?
Jeremy Bentham
He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.
Immanuel Kant
Animals are not property or ‘things’ but rather living organisms, subjects of a life, who are worthy of our compassion, respect, friendship, and support.
Marc Bekoff
If a man aspires towards a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from injury to animals.
Albert Einstein
The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that’s the essence of inhumanity.
George Bernard Shaw
I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being.
Abraham Lincoln
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
The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man.
Charles Darwin
The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.
Mahatma Gandhi
It is our duty to show mercy to animals, for they cannot speak for themselves.
Jane Goodall
Animals are more than ever a test of our character, of mankind’s capacity for empathy and for decent, honorable conduct and faithful stewardship.
Matthew Scully
The soul is the same in all living creatures, although the body of each is different.
Hippocrates
We must fight against the spirit of unconscious cruelty with which we treat the animals. Animals suffer as much as we do.
Albert Schweitzer
If we could live happy and healthy lives without harming others, why wouldn’t we?
Edgar’s Mission
The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.
Alice Walker
In their capacity to feel pain and fear, a pig is a dog is a bear is a boy.
Philip Wollen
The idea that some lives matter less is the root of all that is wrong with the world.
Dr. Paul Farmer
When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Buddha
The time is always right to do what is right.
Martin Luther King Jr.
The only way to save a rhinoceros is to save the environment in which it lives because there’s a mutual dependency between it and millions of other species of both animals and plants.
David Attenborough
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We cannot have peace among men whose hearts find delight in killing any living creature.
Rachel Carson
The love of all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man.
Charles Darwin
If you don’t like pictures of animal cruelty being posted on social media, you need to help stop the cruelty, not the pictures.
Johnny Depp
The more helpless a creature, the more entitled it is to protection by man from the cruelty of man.
Mahatma Gandhi
The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.
Mahatma Gandhi
Animals are not ours to eat, wear, experiment on, use for entertainment, or abuse in any other way.
PETA
The time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men.
Leonardo da Vinci
The abuse of a harmless thing is the essence of sin.
A.W. Tozer
Compassion for animals is intimately associated with goodness of character, and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to animals cannot be a good man.
Arthur Schopenhauer
The only creatures that are evolved enough to convey pure love are dogs and infants.
Johnny Depp
If you have men who will exclude any of God’s creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men.
St. Francis of Assisi
Our treatment of animals will someday be considered barbarous. There cannot be perfect civilization until man realizes that the rights of every living creature are as sacred as his own.
Dr. David Starr Jordan
The question is not, ‘Can they reason?’ nor, ‘Can they talk?’ but ‘Can they suffer?
Jeremy Bentham
He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.
Immanuel Kant
Animals are not property or ‘things’ but rather living organisms, subjects of a life, who are worthy of our compassion, respect, friendship, and support.
Marc Bekoff
If a man aspires towards a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from injury to animals.
Albert Einstein
The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that’s the essence of inhumanity.
George Bernard Shaw
I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being.
Abraham Lincoln
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
The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man.
Charles Darwin
Animal abuse is a serious issue that affects millions of animals every year.
It’s important to raise awareness and take action against it in order to protect and care for our furry friends.
We hope these inspiring animal abuse quotes will give you the strength and courage to stand up for what’s right and create positive change in the world.
Together, we can help create a world where animals are treated with respect and compassion.
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