#animals

To be a vegetarian is to disagree - to disagree with the course of things today... starvation, cruelty - we must make a statement against these things. Vegetarianism is my statement. And I think it's a strong one. ↗

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

#animals #vegetarian #cruelty

Auschwitz begins wherever someone looks at a slaughterhouse and thinks: they’re only animals. ↗

— Theodor W. Adorno

#animal-rights #animals #theodor-w-adorno #cruelty

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

#cruelty #hell #cruelty

Animals make us Human. ↗

— Temple Grandin

#heroism

We have doomed the wolf not for what it is, but for what we deliberately and mistakenly perceive it to be –the mythologized epitome of a savage ruthless killer – which is, in reality, no more than a reflected image of ourself. ↗

— Farley Mowat

#wolves #mythology

Lots of people talk to animals...Not very many listen though...that's the problem. ↗

— Benjamin Hoff

#listen #talk #animals

Just be yourself and you'll be fine ↗

— Natsuki Takaya

#animals

Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to. ↗

— Mark Twain

#wordplay #animals

So you've got no name?" I asked. "They couldn't think of one ugly enough?" The creature snarled, stepping over the unconscious policeman. "Set animal is too hard to say," I decided. "I'll call you Leroy." Apparently, Leroy didn't like his name. He lunged. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#animals

Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore. ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

#animals