Human quotes on Animals

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Human Quotes on Animals

  1. Every animal knows more than you do.- Native American Proverb.
  2. I know at last what distinguishes man from ANIMALS; financial worries.- Romain Rolland 
  3. Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal.- Alexander Hamilton 
  4. A merciful person is merciful to their ANIMALS.- Bible 
  5. Be a good animal, true to your animal instincts.- D. H. Lawrence 
  6. The last word in ignorance is the man who says of an animal or plant: "What good is it?- Aldo Leopold
  7. The abuse of a harmless thing is the essence of sin.- A. W. Tozer
  8. Wildlife is decreasing in the jungles, but it is increasing in the towns.- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
  9. Without free animal life, I believe we will lose the spiritual equivalent of oxygen.- Alice Walker
  10. 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
  11. Kindness to all God's creatures is an absolute rock-bottom necessity if peace and righteousness are to prevail.- Sir Wilfred T. Grenfell
  12. Nature teaches beasts to know their friends.- William Shakespeare
  13. We're animals. We're born like every other mammal and we live our whole lives around disguised animal thoughts.- Barbara Kingsolver
  14. A good deed done to an animal is as meritorious as a good deed done to a human being, while an act of cruelty to an animal is as bad as an act of cruelty to a human being.—Prophet Mohammed
  15. Men show their superiority inside; animals, outside. - Russian Proverb
  16. The soul is the same in all living creatures, although the body of each is different.- Hippocrates
  17. If a man aspires towards a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from injury to animals.-Leo Tolstoy
  18. Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they might have been.- William Hazlitt



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