Milan Kundera Quotes

The simplest and clearest motivation for taking animal welfare seriously is the recognition that pain is in and of itself a bad thing, and that to inflict significant amounts of it unnecessarily is wrong.

We ought not to treat living creatures like shoes or household belongings, which when worn with use we throw away.

I urge you to ask yourself just how honorable it is to preside over the abuse and suffering of animals.

At PETA, we often say that the issue of how animals are treated isn't just about them; it's about us, how we behave.

The animals are right here, right in front of us. And how we treat these companions is a test.

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

I don't think a living being should suffer for the sake of fashion, period. End of story. You don't have to kill an animal just because you want to be hot and fly. And I really stand by that.

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.

The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

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

Certainly it is wrong to be cruel to animals and the destruction of a whole species can be a great evil. The capacity for feelings of pleasure and pain and for the form of life of which animals are capable clearly impose duties of compassion and humanity in their case.

I think, if you were being cruel to animals, then the thought of eating them would be horrific.

I have always been against cruelty to animals and remain so.

I'm always pushing for human responsibility. Given that chimpanzees and many other animals are sentient and sapient, then we should treat them with respect.

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

Strictly speaking, my interest is not in legal rights for animals but in a change of heart towards animals.

I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men will look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men.

Animals shouldn't be mistreated.

To a man whose mind is free there is something even more intolerable in the sufferings of animals than in the sufferings of man. For with the latter it is at least admitted that suffering is evil and that the man who causes it is a criminal. But thousands of animals are uselessly butchered every day without a shadow of remorse. If any man were to refer to it, he would be thought ridiculous. And that is the unpardonable crime.

Life is no way to treat an animal.

We do not think clearly about our moral obligations to animals.

As long as man eats animals how can cruelty to animals be removed.

Cruelty to men and to the lower animals as well, which would have passed unnoticed a century ago, now shocks the sensibilities and is regarded as wicked and degrading.

I'm totally against animal cruelty. I don't have clothes, shoes or bags made from any animal products.

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