Animal Compassion Quotes

Graciousness, courtesy, compassion-this is hesed. Hesed is a quality that extends even to the animals and the land. The sabbath rest principle of Hebrew law included the needs of the livestock (Exod. 23:12). After seven years of planting and harvesting, the land itself needed "a year of complete rest" (Lev. 25:5). Even the soil of the vineyards was not to be overtaxed by planting other crops between the rows (Deut. 22:9). The oxen that trod out the grain were not to be muzzled so that they could eat while they worked (Deut. 25:4). And so on. ~ Richard J. Foster

God sleeps in the minerals, awakens in plants, walks in animals, and thinks in man. ~ Arthur Young

...rewilding is all about being nice, kind, compassionate, empathic, and harnessing our inborn goodness and optimism. We must all work together at this. It's about time we focus on the good side of human and animal nature. ... nature offers many lessons for kinder society. Blood shouldn't sell. ~ Marc Bekoff

There are many people out there (me being one of them) who can vouch that animals have feelings; they feel compassion and love, as well as pain! ~ Jane Goodall

You can judge a man's true character by the way he treats his fellow animals. ~ Paul McCartney

Compassion begets compassion, cruelty begets cruelty. What we give we will ultimately receive. Nonhumans help make us human. They teach us respect, compassion, and unconditional love. When we mistreat animals, we mistreat ourselves. When we destroy animal spirits and souls, we destroy our own spirits and souls. ~ Marc Bekoff

Both my wife and I have a lot of compassion for animals in general. ~ Biz Stone

He who abstains from anything animate ... will be much more careful not to injure those of his own species. For he who loves the genus will not hate any species of animals. ~ Porphyry

Being vegan or vegetarian isn't just about compassion for animals. Most of the destruction of the planet is the result of all the clear-cutting, groundwater contamination, grain production, fuel consumption, greenhouse gas, viral proliferation - the direct result of livestock production. ~ William McNamara

There are many animal-welfare groups that sometimes seem to forget that human beings are animals too, that we need to include them in our sphere of compassion. ~ Jane Goodall

There is no question that Francis was in advance of his age, as he anticipated all that is liberal and sympathetic in modern times: the love of nature, the love of animals, the sense of social compassion, the sense of the spiritual dangers of affluence. ~ Henryk Skolimowski

Who taught me that animals were put on this Earth for food? Who taught me to disrespect animals and view them as mere commodities? Who stole my compassion, my empathy and my conscience? Who lied to me? Who instilled this vicious mindset of human-to-animal exploitation as standard operating procedure? ~ Gary Yourofsky

Roving dogs do not indicate the civilisation or compassion of the society. They betray on the country the ignorance and lethargy of its members. ~ Mahatma Gandhi

It is a man's sympathy with all creatures that first makes him truly a man. ~ Albert Schweitzer

We need a boundless ethic, one which will include the animals, too. Until we extend the circle of his compassions to all living things, we will not find peace. ~ Albert Schweitzer

O Nobly Born, now there is born in you exceeding compassion for all those living creatures who have forgotten their true nature. - Mahamudra text of Tibetan yogi Longchenpa ~ Jack Kornfield

A single kind of red cell is supposed to have an enormous number of different substances on it, and in the same way there are substances in the serum to react with many different animal cells. In addition, the substances which match each kind of cell are different in each kind of serum. The number of hypothetical different substances postulated makes this conception so uneconomical that the question must be asked whether it is the only one possible ... We ourselves hold that another, simpler, explanation is possible. ~ Karl Landsteiner

There's not a woman in the book, the plot hinges on unkindness to animals, and the black characters mostly drown by Chapter 29. ~ P. J. O'Rourke

Love is faith in action."

~R. Alan Woods [2006] ~ R. Alan Woods

Animal testing doesn't actually teach us anything. It sure as heck doesn't teach them anything, either."
-Shenita Etwaroo ~ Shenita Etwaroo

For many people, the love or the loss of an animal often becomes a gateway into a deeper spiritual journey. The most pragmatic of men will begin to question the fundamental nature of being when he is visited by an apparition of his deceased cat or dog companion. ~ Elizabeth S. Eiler

Standing by the crib of one's own baby, with that world - old pang of compassion and protectiveness toward this so little creature that has all its course to run, the heart flies back in yearning and gratitude to those who felt just so toward one's self. Then for the first time one understands the homely succession of sacrifices and pains by which life is transmitted and fostered down the stumbling generations of men. ~ Christopher Morley

Faith is something that you cannot see but feel. Faith is that strength which helps you to survive even in the darkest of time. Having faith in yourself is having that belief for the things that you hope for and at the same time being faithful is the way you demonstrate your faith. Both of these factors differ from each other merely on the basis of your compassion.

Having compassion within yourself will allow you to be faithful towards your work, towards your people and at the same time having faith, which builds compassion will lead you to become more generous and having both faith and compassion within yourself might not make your journey easy but it will definitely make it possible. ~ Prashant Agarwal

As a designer, I like to work with fabrics that don't bleed; that's why I avoid all animal skins. ~ Stella McCartney

Compassion needs new approach and new outlook with the way you see the world. ~ Amit Ray

There was something about the eyes. It wasn't the shape or the color. The was no evil glint. But there was ...
... a look. It was such a look that a microbe might encounter if it could see up from the bottom end of the microscope. It said: You are nothing. It said: You are flawed, you have no value. It said: You are animal. It said: Perhaps you may be a pet, or perhaps you may be a quarry. It said: And the choice is not yours. ~ Terry Pratchett

Tori felt like she'd accidentally wandered into the men's locker room. Everywhere she looked there was rippling muscle. Testosterone hung thick in the air, and she had the overwhelming urge to chop some wood or fix a carburetor... maybe skin an animal or two. ~ Bethany K. Lovell

When I save, I lay something aside for future need. If I sense God's leading, I will give it away to meet greater needs. When I hoard, I'm unwilling to part with what I've saved to meet others' needs, because my possible future needs outweigh their actual present needs. I fail to love my neighbor as myself. ~ Randy Alcorn

Numbness and cynicism, I suspect, are more often the products of frustrated compassion than of evil intentions. ~ David Hilfiker

A willingness to lose one's self in a story was the first step to learning compassion, to appreciating other cultures, to realizing what possibilities the world held for people who kept at life despite the odds. ~ Jo-Ann Mapson

I dressed up as a veterinarian for a Halloween costume party. I had the lab coat. I got a couple of stuffed animals for patients and put bandages on them. ~ Tracy Chapman

It isn't just people in faraway places that need your compassion and your help. Sometimes it's those right where you are. ~ Anne Mateer

There is no better state of mind for man or animal than being what you are and doing what you are meant to do. This harmony of existence and purpose is so rare that we forget it exists. ~ Greg Kincaid

A rat is a pig is a dog is a boy. ~ Ingrid Newkirk

Our readers are curious, creative, and compassionate fairy punks who are citizens of the world. ~ Quail Bell Magazine

So if you have over-indulged during the holidays, for example, please don't beat yourself up, but rather have compassion and forgiveness and perhaps, even try the Ho'oponono technique. ~ Marci Shimoff

I realized a while back that I have an innate ability to be compassionate, and I saw that the strength of compassion is something that healers have and healers use.' ~ Ricky Williams

Even in the midst of compassion we feel within I know not what tart sweet titillation of malicious pleasure in seeing others suffer; children have the same feeling. ~ Michel De Montaigne

People should try eating no animal products for just ONE DAY a week. ~ Casey Affleck

I went to a heavy metal concert. The singer yelled out, "How many of you people feel like human beings tonight?" And then he said, "How many of you feel like animals?" The thing is, everyone cheered after the animals part, but I cheered after the human beings part because I did not know there was a second part to the question. ~ Mitch Hedberg

What if virtue, work, all our striving and sweat was simply not enough to make the animal man a happy creature? ~ Darrin M. McMahon

There was something about the sound of a man in pain that resembled the sound of a wounded animal. ~ Benjamin Alire Saenz

But no one walks out of his family without reprisals: a family is too disciplined an army to offer compassion to its deserters. ~ Pat Conroy

The smoothest curled courtier in the boudoirs of a palace has an animal nature, rude and aboriginal as a white bear. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

In its sentimental mode, compassion is an exercise in moral indignation, in feeling good rather than doing good ... In its unsentimental mode, compassion seeks above all to do good ... ~ Gertrude Himmelfarb

In the path of compassion even if we can save an insect that has a huge impact on the cosmos. ~ Amit Ray

I never, for instance, have the urge to paint animals 'the way I see them,' but rather the way they are ... The way they themselves look at the world and feel their being ~ Franz Marc

I'd like to know how to catch a girl. I've caught frogs, I've caught snakes, earthworms ... ~ Sam The Sham

God will judge us, Mr. Harris, by
by what we did to relieve the suffering of our fellow human beings. I don't think God cares what doctrine we embrace. ~ Abraham Verghese

I'm animal obsessed! I basically have a farm in my house. ~ Nikki Reed

Comrades," he said, "I trust that every animal here appreciates the sacrifice that Comrade Napoleon has made in taking this extra labour upon himself. Do not imagine, comrades, that leadership is a pleasure! On the contrary, it is a deep and heavy responsibility. No one believes more firmly than Comrade Napoleon that all animals are equal. He would be only too happy to let you make your decisions for yourselves. But sometimes you might make the wrong decisions, comrades, and then where should we be? Suppose you had decided to follow Snowball, with his moonshine of windmills - Snowball, who, as we now know, was no better than a criminal? ~ Anonymous

On every level of human life, compassion is the key thing. ~ Dalai Lama

You can't make yourself be compassionate, you can only keep stepping back and becoming a larger container in which compassion wants to live. The practice should open us up, and crack open our hearts again and again. ~ Judith Hanson Lasater

Ecology is often confused with environmentalism, while in fact, environmentalism often leaves out the fact that people, too, can be a legitimate part of an ecosystem. ~ Frank Herbert

Vegetarianism preserves live, health, peace, the ecology, creates a more equitable distribution of resources, helps to feed the hungry, encourages nonviolence for the animal and human members of the planet, and is a powerful aid for the spiritual transformation of the body, emotions, mind, and spirit. ~ Gabriel Cousens

An animal
A man
A boy....I have had the distinct experience to love them all..,. Quite frankly, the difference between them is not how they loved, it's how they left! ~ Saidah Brown

All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives. ~ Dalai Lama

In proportion as my own discomfort has increased, my conviction of necessity to search into the wants of the friendless and afflicted has deepened. If I am cold, they too are cold; if I am weary, they are distressed; if I am alone, they are abandoned. ~ Dorothea Dix

Good food is a celebration of life, and it seems absurd to me that in celebrating life we should take life. That is why I don't eat flesh. I see no need for killing. ~ Anna Thomas