Nick Clooney Quotes

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

I hope to bring much more attention to important issues and change for issues and practices that are harming animals.

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

Animals don't have anyone to protect them. If we don't stand up, the people who are harming animals will never get stopped.

… the worst animals

I don't like to see animals get hurt.

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

Terms like that, 'Humane Society,' are devised with people like me in mind, who don't care to dwell on what happens to the innocent.

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

To save an animal's life in order that it may suffer indefinitely is something I would never condone.

Animals have always been a passion of mine, being able to help them because they can't help themselves, and I think that people have treated them so badly over the years and it's just not fair. It's something I feel like I can help make a difference.

All of my friends are animal people. To me, cats are people, too. Animals are people, too. I travel a lot and when I go overseas, it's really hard on me because the animals are treated much differently, especially in developing countries.

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

Animal welfare issues have always been important to me.

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

I have yet to see one completely unspoiled star, except for Lassie.

The harming of animals for any reason is shameful, but torturing them for mere vanity is senseless. Slaughtering animals for their fur or harming them for cosmetic purposes is disgusting and not worth the perfect shade of lipstick.

I only want to protect animals from barbarous, cruel, inhuman and backward rituals.

At times they don't like you to kick them and they feel you're not allowed to kick them.

I'm indifferent and it's a matter of wanting to stay away from the whole Michael Vick situation, whether he is involved or not. I'm not saying anything about dogfighting or anyone who might be involved in it.

Mr. Speaker, for the last 5 years I have been working with a bipartisan group of my colleagues to make it illegal to continue the barbaric practice of game bird and illegal dog fighting.

China once again disgusts the world, portraying the image of a cruel, perverted people devoid of any feelings towards animals.

Because animals are property, we consider as 'humane treatment' that we would regard as torture if it were inflicted on humans.

I hope to make people realize how totally helpless animals are, how dependent on us, trusting as a child must that we will be kind and take care of their needs.

You know what the problem that animal activists sometimes have? They only concentrate on the heartbreaking things to the point where the general public thinks, 'Oh, here comes those animal folks again and I'm going to hear all the things I don't want to hear.'