Looking for quotes on animal cruelty? We have rounded up the best collection of animal abuse quotes, sayings, slogans, captions, one-liners (with images and pictures) to inspire you to take a stand against animal cruelty in all forms.
These animal abuse quotes remind us to be empathetic and treat animals with love and respect. We must remember that animals have emotions too. Do you know that in the United States alone, 1million animals are abused or killed every single year, including pet animals like dogs and cats?
We need to live in harmony with the world around us so we should not harm animals and birds around us.
Animal abuse is one of the most pressing problems of our times. The way we treat animals is not that different from our treatment of fellow human beings. There are many organizations, activists, and celebrities who come forward and take up this noble cause and show compassion and love to animals.
Animal Abuse Quotes & Sayings
“There is no excuse for animal abuse.” Animal Cruelty Quotes
“Stop turning a blind eye to animal cruelty.” Animal Abuse Quotes Images
“Evolve: End violence against animals.”
“We need to be more compassionate towards animals.” Animal Abuse Posters
“Stop abusing animals in the name of cosmetic testing.”
“Only a bully and a coward would hurt an innocent animal.”
“I support the maximum penalty for animal abuse! Do You?”
“When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.”
“The abuse of a harmless thing is the essence of sin.” – A. W. Tozer
“Animal abuse can be physical and/or mental.” – Catherine Tiplady
“No one in the world needs a mink coat but a mink.” – Murray Banks
“There are no acceptable reasons for cruelty or abuse to animals. None!”
“Don’t treat animals as animals. Treat them as living beings. That’s what they are.”
“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
“All creatures are deserving of a life free from fear and pain.” – Maura Cummings
“Deer hunting would be fine sport, if only the deer had guns.” – William S. Gilbert
“If slaughterhouses had glass walls, we would all be vegetarian.” – Paul McCartney
“Life on a chain is no life at all. If you want them in your home, you shouldn’t have them.”
“The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man.” – Charles Darwin
“Animal abuse has also been investigated as a predictor of bullying.” – Clifton P. Flynn
“If humans killed each other at the same rate that we kill animals we’d be extinct in 17 days.”
“My heart weeps when I see abuse or cruelty to any animal.” – Anthony Douglas Williams
“It’s strange how many animals are killed to dress the girl that’s dressed to kill.” – Evan Esar
“Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.” – Anatole France
“Murderers … very often start out by killing and torturing animals as kids.” – Robert K. Ressler
“God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages.” – Jacques Deval
“The question is not, Can they reason? nor, Can they talk? but, Can they suffer?” – Jeremy Bentham
“Stop animal abuse! Do animal deserve pain?? Nooo! They are the purest and most loyal soul than humans.”
“Why do we call this fun to kill this creature who was as happy as I was when I woke up this morning.” – Marv Levy
“Animal abuse is next to human abuse and I don’t know why they think this is no big deal.” – Courtney Emken
“Auschwitz begins wherever someone looks at a slaughterhouse and thinks: they’re only animals.” – Theodor Adorno
“If a man aspires towards a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from injury to animals.” – Albert Einstein
“If you want to test cosmetics, why do it on some poor animal who hasn’t done anything?” – Ellen DeGeneres
“Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace.” – Albert Schweitzer
“Man, when perfected, is the best of animals. but, when separated from the law and justice, he is the worst of all.” – Aristotle
“I urge you to ask yourself just how honorable it is to preside over the abuse and suffering of animals.” – Richard Pryor
“When I look into the eyes of an animal I do not see an animal. I see a living being. I see a friend. I feel a soul.” – AD Williams
“Atrocities are not less atrocities when they occur in laboratories and are called medical research.” – George Bernard Shaw
“The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.” – Mahatma Gandhi
“Animal abuse is an international problem, which has been part of human civilization for millenia.” – Catherine Tiplady
“Abuse has been defined as misuse or maltreatment and cruelty as indifference or pleasure in another’s pain.” – Catherine Tiplady
“When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.” – George Bernard Shaw
“Never, never be afraid to do what’s right, especially if the well-being of a person or animal is at stake.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
“The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.” – Albert Einstein
“Humanity’s true moral test, its fundamental test consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals.” – Milan Kundera
“It is just like man’s vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.” – Mark Twain
“Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow-creatures is amusing in itself.” – J.A. Froude
“I have always felt that the way we treat animals is a pretty good indicator of the compassion we are capable of for the human race.” – Ali McGraw
“Dear intelligent people of the world, don’t get shampoo in your eyes. It really stings. There. Done. Now stop torturing animals.” – Ricky Gervais
“If you really care about animals, then stop trying to figure out how to exploit them compassionately. Just stop exploiting them.” – Gary L Francione
“When it comes to having a central nervous system, and the ability to feel pain, hunger, and thirst, a rat is a pig is a dog is a boy.” – Ingrid E Newkirk
“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 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
“When you eat next, ask yourself whether there is anything that you enjoy so much that it is worth the suffering and death of another.” – Gary L Francione
“For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seed of murder and pain cannot reap joy of love.” – Pythagoras
“Concern for animals is a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done.” – Harriet Beecher Stowe
“Animals should not require your permission to live on earth. Animals were given the right to be here long before we arrived.” – Anthony Douglas Williams
“Animal abuse is the harm, neglect or misuse of animals by humans resulting in the animals suffering physically and/or emotionally.” – Catherine Tiplady
“You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“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
“Never believe that animals suffer less than humans. Pain is the same for them that it is for us. Even worse, because they cannot help themselves.” – Louis J. Camuti
“People’s attitudes toward and acceptance of animal abuse may vary depending on their culture, the species of animal and the animal’s intended use.” – Catherine Tiplady
“Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.” – Albert Einstein
“A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite.” – Leo Tolstoy
“Why are vegans made fun of while the inhumane factory farming process regards animals and the natural world merely as commodities to be exploited for profit?” – Ellen Page
“I became a vegetarian after realizing that animals feel afraid, cold, hungry and unhappy like we do. I feel very deeply about vegetarianism and the animal kingdom.” – Cesar Chavez
“Animals are the victims on this earth. They didn’t declare war, they don’t have weapons, and they don’t want to destroy humans, or impose religion. Their only crime is that they exist.”
“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
“I have developed a deep respect for animals. I consider them fellow living creatures with certain rights that should not be violated any more than those of humans.” – James Stewart
“Life is life – whether it a cat, dog, or man. There is no difference there between a cat or a man. The idea of difference is a human conception for man’s own advantage.” – Sri Aurobindo
“I think animal abuse should be just as punishable as child abuse. Animals are just as innocent as children. Half the time they don’t even understand whats going on… And they can’t speak.”
“There is no kind way to rip the skin off animals backs. Anyone who wears any fur shares the blame for the torture and gruesome deaths of millions of animals each year.” – Natalie Imbruglia
“We need, in a special way, to work twice as hard to help people understand that the animals are fellow creatures, that we must protect them and love them as we love ourselves.” – Cesar Chavez
“I ask people why they have deer heads on their walls. They always say because it’s such a beautiful animal. There you go. I think my mother is attractive, but I have photographs of her.” – Ellen DeGeneres
“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
“These birds and animals and fish cannot speak, but they can suffer, and our God who created them, knows their sufferings, and will hold him who causes them to suffer unnecessarily to answer for it. It is a sin against their Creator.”
“We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation and have treated our distant cousin in fur and feathers so badly, that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form.” – William Ralph Inge
“The meat industry spends hundreds of millions of dollars lying to the public about their product. But no amount of false propaganda can sanitize meat. The facts are absolutely clear: Eating meat is bad for human health, catastrophic for the environment, and a living nightmare for animals.” – Chrissie Hynde
Animal Cruelty Quotes
“I’m against cruelty.”
“No cruelty to animals.”
“His right to exist is more important than your desire to hunt.”
“Mother cow cry out for days after their babies are taken away from them.”
“We must speak for those who can’t speak for themselves. Stop animal cruelty.”
“Cruelty to animals is as if humans did not love God.” – John Henry Newman
“Animal cruelty manifests itself in many ways and is fueled by many motives.” – Linda Merz-Perez
“Cruelty to animals is one of the most significant vices of a low and ignoble people.” – Alexander von Humboldt
“Stop animal cruelty/ animal killing!!! Evolution must be ashamed of putting us together, in the same bracket.” – Mitali Sengupta
“In justifying cruelty to animals we put ourselves also on the animal level. We choose the jungle and must abide by our choice.” – C. S. Lewis
“Animal cruelty is not isolated to the egg industry. Unfortunately, animal abuse is systemic throughout animal agriculture.” – Adam Durand
“The cruelty-kindness view maintains that we have a direct duty to be kind to animals and a direct duty not to be cruel to them.” – Tom Regan
“If you don’t like pictures of animal cruelty being posted on social media, you need to help stop the cruelty, not the pictures.” – Marie Sarantakis
“The only way to completely remove your support from the cruelty within animal agriculture is to stop eating meat, milk, and eggs.” – Adam Durand
“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
“When humans act with cruelty we characterize them as animals, yet the only animal that displays cruelty is humanity.” – Anthony Douglas Williams
“Animal cruelty is one of the most unfortunate and barbaric demonstrations of human beings manipulating ill conceived notions of “power” over other species.” – Ian Somerhalder
“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 a bad as an act of cruelty to a human being.” – Prophet Mohammed
“To include the recognition of animal sentience, as well as increasing animal cruelty sentencing to 5 years into the new 20185 animal welfare bill, is a very bold and welcome move by the government.”
“Compassion for animals is intimately connected with goodness of character; and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to animals cannot be a good man.” – Arthur Schopenhauer
“We cannot have two hearts, one for the animals and one for men. In cruelty towards the former and cruelty to the latter there is no difference but in the victim.” – Alphonse Marie Louis de Lamartine
“The reason that animals are being confined in this way, the reason that factory farms exist, is because of consumer demand for these products. The best thing that we can do as individuals to prevent animal cruelty is to stop supporting these industries.” – Adam Durand
“The assumptions that animals are without rights and the illusion that our treatment of them has no moral significance is a positively outrageous example of western crudity and barbarity. Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.” – Arthur Schopenhauer
“I’m a huge supporter of animal rights – and I’ve been an outspoken critic of the cruelties routinely inflicted on livestock at factory farms. But it really bothers me that the mistreatment of pigs and chickens and cows seem to attract a lot more attention and spark a lot more outrage than the abuse of immigrant workers.” – Eric Schlosser
“Until we have the courage to recognize cruelty for what it is – whether its victim is human or animal – we cannot expect things to be much better in this world. We cannot have peace among men whose hearts delight in killing any living creature. By every act that glorifies or even tolerates such moronic delight in killing, we set back the progress of humanity.” – Rachel Carson
Each day, there is a lot of animal abuse happening in the name of testing cosmetics, in pharmaceutical labs, for leather, for wool, in the food industry, etc.
I hope our inspirational quotes on animal abuse will act as an eye-opener and help everybody change into a better individual and thereby creating a better world.
