Chuck Palahniuk Quotes

It is much easier to show compassion to animals. They are never wicked.

Both my wife and I have a lot of compassion for animals in general.

If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans.

The ways in which people treat animals will be reflected in how people relate to one another.

We decided that how we react to and treat those fellow mortals, wild and domestic, tells us more about ourselves than, perhaps, some of us want to know.

It is inhuman to bless where one is cursed.

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.

The cow to me is a sermon on pity.

I've always thought, and it gets tested at times, that I have a great faith in the fundamental goodness of human beings.

I'm empathetic to a fault. I really do - embarrassingly enough - tear up when someone squishes a bug in front of me.

My most firmly held value is what Albert Schweitzer termed 'reverence for life.' I take this seriously; many would say that because I extend it to nonhumans, I take it too far.

I just want to reflect the respect I have for animals.

Animal welfare issues have always been important to me.

Most people are not good people. In business, in art, in almost every 'world' I've been in, most people I've meet are pretty gray to black. It takes practice to be the person who is a source of compassion and honesty.

Whether or not we are religious, respecting others should be seen as just as important as looking out for ourselves, yet it requires discipline to change our bad habits that cause pain to animals.

The human capacity for compassion is not a reflex that is triggered automatically by the presence of another living thing.

I definitely could not write a character that was cruel or unconcerned with animal welfare. For me, not just as a writer but for the person I am, I love animals.

The sturdiest pillars of human morality are compassion and a sense of justice.

If you treat animals how you want to be treated, you're a lot better off.

People who care about animals tend to care about people. They don't care about animals to the exclusion of people. Caring is not a finite resource and, even more than that, it's like a muscle: the more you exercise it, the stronger it gets.

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.

Human morality is unthinkable without empathy.

It's interesting that one of the definitions of the word 'human' is 'sympathetic.' More and more people are beginning to show that they understand why that is important.

I'm an animal lover.

Compassion and mercy are important, period. It doesn't matter who's at our receiving end, but we need to be flexing those muscles. It's not mutually exclusive: If you have compassion for children starving in Africa, it doesn't mean you can't have compassion for adults in Africa or animals that are being tortured and abused.