Charles Krauthammer Quotes

Pets have more love and compassion in them than most humans.

Nowadays we don't think much of a man's love for an animal; we laugh at people who are attached to cats. But if we stop loving animals, aren't we bound to stop loving humans too?

It is an amiable part of human nature, that we should love our animals; it is even better to love them to the point of folly, than not to love them at all.

You always fed strays and bent down to talk to the dogs you met on the street, looking straight into their eyes as if they were old friends. (Maybe they are, you said. From another life.) You liked to go to the pound and look at them. You tried to send them messages of comfort. I couldn’t go because I started crying the one time I tried. All those eyes and the barks like sobs.

The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.

I think that sometimes we open our hearts a little more easily to animals than we do to each other.

I have been brought up in a house where animals are our friends and we treat them as equals.

I'm very emotional about my animals.

Humans feel deeply the suffering of their friends and allies and easily discount/dismiss the comparable experience of their enemies.

One can show no greater respect than to weep for a stranger.

No louder shrieks to pitying heaven are cast, When husbands or lap-dogs breathe their last.

the very fact of the death of someone close to them aroused in all who heard about it, as always, a feeling of delight that he had died and they hadn't.

I know he's dead! Don't you think I know that? I can still like him, though, can't I? Just because somebody's dead, you don't just stop liking them, for God's sake--especially if they were about a thousand times nicer than the people you know that're alive and all.

I think I love most people best when they are in adversity; for pity is one of my prevailing passions.

If a chimp who has been abused horribly by humans can help a human friend in a time of need, how much more should we help the animals - and other people for that matter - in their time of need?

The higher animals are in a sense drawn into Man when he loves them and makes them (as he does) much more nearly human than they would otherwise be.

I never ride horseback now because my sympathy with the under-dog is too keen. After we have a gone a few blocks, I always dismount and say to the horse: 'We'll walk it together, old dear.

There is something human about the way people react to and identify with suffering. There's a lot more empathy in the world than we perhaps realize.

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.

The dog is guided by kindly instinct to the man or woman whose heart is open to his advances. The cat often leaves the friend who courts her, to honor, or to harass, the unfortunate mortal who shudders at her unwelcome caresses.

It's an odd thing about love. When someone you love cries, your heart melts. But when someone you don't love cries, you look at them and think, Why are you telling 'me' this?

I love animals. I love being around them.

A tree weeps when cut down, a dog howls when beaten, but a man matures when offended.

The inclination to goodness is imprinted deeply in the nature of man; insomuch, that if it issue not towards men, it will take unto other living creatures; as it is seen in the Turks, cruel people, who, nevertheless, are kind to beasts, and give alms to dogs and birds.