Rebecca Hall Quotes

Animals are not here for us to do as we please with. We are not their superiors, we are their equals. We are their family. Be kind to them.

I was always empathetic with animals. It's a terrible and self-involved point of view that we do something because someone else is exploitable.

I believe that animals are on the planet so that we can know love and compassion.

We are beginning to learn that each animal has a life and a place and a role in this world. If we place compassion and care in the middle of all our dealings with the animal world and honor and respect their lives, our attitudes will change.

As often as Herman had witnessed the slaughter of animals and fish, he always had the same thought: in their behavior toward creatures, all men were Nazis.

We are often more merciful to our animals than we are to each other.

In justifying cruelty to animals we put ourselves also on the animal level. We choose the jungle and must abide by our choice.

Any glimpse into the life of an animal quickens our own and makes it so much the larger and better in every way." ... "Surely a better time must be drawing nigh when godlike human beings will become truly humane, and learn to put their animal fellow mortals in their hearts instead of on their backs or in their dinners.

To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being.

Having respect for animals makes us better humans.

Human cruelty knows no limits and that one needs immense courage and a will of iron to help others understand that animals are made of flesh and blood like us, that they suffer the same pains as us, that they deserve the same respect as us and that their continuous slaughter should not be part of human entertainment.

I have always felt that the way we treat animals is a pretty good indicator of the compassion we are capable of for the human race.

Lissa knelt down, compassion on her face. I wasn't surprised, since she'd always had a thing for animals. She'd lectured me for days after I'd instigated the infamous hamster-and-hermit-crab fight. I'd viewed the fight as a testing of worthy opponents. She'd seen it as animal cruelty.

I do love animals so much, and have a great respect for them emotionally and intellectually, because they are so different from human beings.

Animals should be treated the same as you would a kid. Would you want someone just to walk up and skin your kid? Hell no!

When you look into the eyes of an animal you've rescued, you can't help but fall in love.

Fair treatment of human beings and animals in many different realms strikes a chord with me.

My respect and empathy towards animals includes sea dwellers too--from dolphins to fish to lobsters. So, of course, I wouldn't dream of eating them.

We don't let animals suffer, so why humans?

Pain is pain, and the importance of preventing unnecessary pain and suffering does not diminish because the being that suffers is not a member of our own species.

I can't abide people who go soft over animals and then cheat every human they come across!

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

You don't have to love animals to recognize that it is immoral and unjust to exploit them. But if you do love animals, but you continue to participate in their exploitation, you need to rethink your idea of what love means.

The thing about animals that speaks to me so much is that my passion for the animals and against animal abuse is based on the knowledge that these creatures which think and feel can't speak for themselves. I feel it is my responsibility to speak for those who can't speak for themselves.

The deeper minds of all ages have had pity for animals.