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Animals have a much better attitude to life and death than we do. They know when their time has come. We are the ones that suffer when they pass, but it's a healing kind of grief that enables us to deal with other griefs that are not so easy to grab hold of.

Every animal has his or her story, his or her thoughts, daydreams, and interests. All feel joy and love, pain and fear, as we now know beyond any shadow of a doubt. All deserve that the human animal afford them the respect of being cared for with great consideration for those interests or left in peace.

Birth, life, death is a cycle. And they're all beautiful, you celebrate all of them. Animals do grieve, but they move on. That's the lesson behind animals.

All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.

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

Certainly it is wrong to be cruel to animals and the destruction of a whole species can be a great evil. The capacity for feelings of pleasure and pain and for the form of life of which animals are capable clearly impose duties of compassion and humanity in their case.

In order to be cruel we have to close our hearts to the suffering of the other.

All the arguments to prove man's superiority cannot shatter this hard fact: in suffering the animals are our equals.

Man's inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn!

We're one of the only animals in the world that don't really think of ourselves as animals, but we are animals, and we must respect our fellow animals.