Sara Pascoe Quotes

Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind - it is only the difference in the victim.

I wouldn't want to see any animal in pain, no matter what.

Fear and pain and suffering is not OK for any being to feel intentionally at the hands of us.

I don't think I'd ever be cruel to an animal.

We have seen our discourse degraded by casual cruelty. At times, it can seem like the forces pulling us apart are stronger than the forces binding us together. Argument turns too easily into animosity. Disagreement escalates into dehumanization. Too often, we judge other groups by their worst examples while judging ourselves by our best intentions.

Years of cultural programming have taught us to love some animals while eating others, when in all reality, all animals are sentient beings with the capacity to feel, both physically and emotionally. Every day, I have the choice to live a life of compassion that not only saves animals but helps the environment.

Whether you understand they evolved over billions of years or believe that a God made them all one afternoon, please be kind to animals.

Life is no way to treat an animal.

If we can't be cordial to these creatures' fleece, I think that we deserve to freeze.

Growing up, the two things that made my blood boil were religious intolerance and animal cruelty. I’ve never understood it. I can’t stand to have an animal in pain.

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.

One can't be kind to one person and cruel to another.

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.

I'm very touched on a deep level by cruelty to animals.

We should all love animals.

My most firmly held value is what Albert Schweitzer termed 'reverence for life.' I take this seriously; many would say that because I extend it to nonhumans, I take it too far.

I just want to reflect the respect I have for animals.

It is much easier to show compassion to animals. They are never wicked.

If you saw a dog going to be crushed under a car, wouldn't you help him?

He who hates vice hates men.

I don't slam doors in people's faces, and I'm not a bigot.

Any abuse of animals is the same as abuse of men, women, or children.

Animal welfare issues have always been important to me.

There is only one way in which one can endure man's inhumanity to man and that is to try, in one's own life, to exemplify man's humanity to man.

So when you spot violence, or bigotry, or intolerance or fear or just garden-variety misogyny, hatred or ignorance, just look it in the eye and think, 'The good outnumber you, and we always will.'