Steve Martin Quotes

Unconscious behavior is at the core. Think of the 40 billion animals we abuse and eat who are born into suffering. It's a karmic disaster.

Laws exist in every state that make animal cruelty a crime. Horse slaughter is simply another form of animal abuse.

Cruelty to animals can become violence to humans.

The matter of the abuse and cruelty we inflict on other animals has to fight for our attention in what sometimes seems an already overfull moral agenda. It is vital, however, that these instances of injustice not be overlooked.

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

Fortunately, this is not something that we see a lot of. Very rarely do you see a dog in this terrible shape from starvation. People just aren't that cruel.

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

The way animals were and are abused appalls me to this very day.

Swine!

Animals shouldn't be mistreated.

I am not, and have never been, a supporter of cockfighting or any other forms of animal cruelty.

I would be more angry if an animal were treated cruelly than people, because people can defend themselves.

When someone is mean to a dog, they are being cruel to a living being.

Say no to circuses that exploit and abuse animals.

When I find the motherfucker who tortured an innocent cat to death just to send us a warning, I'm going to clobber him with a baseball bat

We cut the throat of a calf and hang it up by the heels to bleed to death so that our veal cutlet may be white; we nail geese to a board and cram them with food because we like the taste of liver disease; we tear birds to pieces to decorate our women's hats; we mutilate domestic animals for no reason at all except to follow an instinctively cruel fashion; and we connive at the most abominable tortures in the hope of discovering some magical cure for our own diseases by them.

In my opinion, one of the greatest animal-welfare problems is the physical abuse of livestock during transportation.... Typical abuses I have witnessed with alarming frequency are; hitting, beating, use of badly maintained trucks, jabbing of short objects into animals, and deliberate cruelty.

There's only so many times you can kick a dog before it turns viscous. (Julian)

There were only so many kicks a dog could take before it turned vicious.’ (Acheron)

I'd love to see that rat nose smashed!

Donkeys are the most misunderstood and abused animals around the world.

Drown thyself? Drown cats and blind puppies.

There are viable (and usually better) alternatives to the use of animals for food, sport, clothing, & experimentation. I beg you to discontinue any actions that might cause or condone animal torture, abuse, or destruction.

Deliberate cruelty to our defenceless and beautiful little cousins is surely one of the meanest and most detestable vices of which a human being can be guilty.

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.