Mankind’s cruelty and abuse to other people will not cease until mankind ceases cruelty and abuse to other animals.
~ A.D. Williams

Never break a promise to an animal. They’re like babies—they won’t understand.
~ Tamora Pierce, Wild Magic

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

Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.
~ Colette

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, Never Cry Wolf : Amazing True Story of Life Among Arctic Wolves

The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.
~ Mahatma Gandhi

Some people talk to animals. Not many listen though. That’s the problem.
~ A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

I wish people would realize that animals are totally dependent on us, helpless, like children, a trust that is put upon us.
~ James Herriot

People speak sometimes about the “bestial” cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel.
~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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