This document contains a collection of quotes about animals and humanity's relationship with them. The quotes discuss how animals create music like humans, the brutality of man compared to animals, how fur coats require killing many animals while animals are content with their own fur, how children and animals understand music better than adults, how loving an animal can teach unconditional love, how compassion should extend to all living beings, how until you love an animal part of your soul remains dormant, how man has turned the earth into a hell for animals, the double standard around when killing animals versus humans is called, how animals are good friends who don't criticize, how only man drinks without thirst and eats without hunger, how reason and sociability should make man

1. THE ANIMAL KINGDOM
Since man came to be there is music;
but animals, atoms, and stars
also create music.
Karlheinz Stockhausen
por Larísa en Cádiz

2. The real king of animals is man
because his brutality overcomes that
of all others.
Leonardo Da Vinci

3. Fifty animals are necessary to make
a fur coat, but one animal is
content with its own fur.

4. Love for all living creatures is the
most noble attribute of man
Charles Darwin

5. Children and animals understand
better my music.
Igor Strawinsky

6. I did not know that you could
like so much an animal until I
got one.
Of the many things I learned,
the greatest was that of
unconditional love

7. Pity,
is always one and the same feeling
that you have, be it for an animal,
for a man or for a tree.
Tolstoy.

8. If the extension of your compassion does not include all
living beings, then you will be unable to find peace by
yourself.
Albert Schweitzer (Nobel Prize Winner 1952)

9. Until you have loved an animal,
part of your soul will have remained
dormant.
Anatole France

10. Man has turned Earth into a hell for animals.
Arthur Schopenhauer

11. When a man kills a tiger, it is called
a game.
When a tiger kills a man then it is
called savagery.

12. Two things have surprised
me: The intelligence of
animals and the beastliness of
men
Flora Tristan

13. Animals are good friends. They neither ask
questions nor do they criticise.
George Elliot

14. Of all animals in God’s creation, man is the only one who drinks
without being thirsty, eats without being hungry and talks without
having something to say.
John Steinbeck

15. Man, as nature’s frail being,
was endowed with two things
that should make him the
strongest amongst animals:
Reason and Sociability.
Lucio Anneo Séneca

16. A country or civilisation can be
judged by the way it treats its
animals.
Mahatma Gandhi

18. The day will come when people like me will
view the murder of an animal the same way
they view that of a man today.
Leonardo da Vinci.

19. It is incredible and shameful
that neither indoctrinators nor
moralists raise their voice
against the abuse toward
animals.
Voltaire.

20. When man feels compassion
towards all living beings, then he
will be noble.
Buda.

21. THE PLANET IS
OURS AND …….
THEIRS.
LET’S SHARE IT

23. Sometimes they ask me why do I invest so much time and
money talking about kindness to animals when there is so much
cruelty amongst men.
My answer is: I am working at the roots!!
George T. Angell
Hecho en Cádiz
Por
I. Maria
LARISA 05/05/11