It can truly be said: Men are the devils of the earth, and the animals are the tormented souls. —Arthur Schopenhauer More about this quote Tags: evil animals cruelty animal cruelty Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
In nothing does man, with his grand notions of heaven and charity, show forth his innate, wild animalism more clearly than in his treatment of his brother beasts. From the shepherd with his lambs to the red-handed hunter, it is the same: no recognition of rights — only murder in one form or another. —John Muir More about this quote Tags: murder animals heaven charity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The lower animals are our brethren. I include among them the lion and the tiger. We do not know how to live with these carnivorous beasts and poisonous reptiles because of our ignorance. When man learns better, he will learn to befriend even these. Today he does not even know how to befriend a man of a different religion or from a different country. —Mahatma Gandhi More about this quote Tags: friendship ignorance religion learning animals Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It was quite incomprehensible to me …why in my evening prayers I should pray for human beings only. So when my mother had prayed with me and had kissed me goodnight, I used to add silently a prayer that I had composed myself for all living creatures. It ran thus: "O Heavenly Father, protect and bless all things that have breath; guard them from all evil, and let them sleep in peace. " —Albert Schweitzer More about this quote Tags: God belief prayer animals blessing human beings Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Animals give us their constant, unjaded faces, and we burden them with our bodies and civilized ordeals. —Gretel Ehrlich More about this quote Tags: animals Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
My mother thought it would make us feel better to know that animals had no souls, and thus their deaths were not to be taken seriously. But it didn't help, and when I think of some of the animals I have known, I wonder. The only really "soulful" eyes in the world belong to the dog or cat who sits on your lap or at your feet, commiserating when you cry. —Liz Smith More about this quote Tags: feeling sorrow death eyes dogs cats animals souls Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears. —Albert Camus More about this quote Tags: life living sadness tears Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
In the game of love, the losers are more celebrated than the winners. —Mason Cooley More about this quote Tags: love winners losers Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't. —Anatole France More about this quote Tags: education memory knowledge facts Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
When you’re a teenager, your friends are your life. When you grow up, friendships seem to get pushed further and further back, until it seems like a luxury. —Sarah Addison Allen in The Peach Keeper More about this quote Tags: life friendship aging age luxury Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There is little success where there is little laughter. —Andrew Carnegie More about this quote Tags: humor laughter fun Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
In Westerns you were permitted to kiss your horse but never your girl. —Gary Cooper More about this quote Tags: history romance movies Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I. —Michel de Montaigne More about this quote Tags: love irrationality identity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
No one who cannot rejoice in the discovery of his own mistakes deserves to be called a scholar. —Donald Foster More about this quote Tags: mistakes knowledge error discover Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Anybody can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success. —Oscar Wilde More about this quote Tags: empathy friendship success sympathy Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email