Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind - it is only the difference in the victim.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The impulse to cruelty is, in many people, almost as violent as the impulse to sexual love - almost as violent and much more mischievous.
We're so much more likely to feel sympathy for an animal than another person; thus, the best fiction uses animals to define truly humane behavior.
There's a certain edge about cruelty. If you're honest about it, most people wince, but say it had to be said.
Each year, billions of animals are subjected to cruelty on factory farms, feed lots, and slaughterhouses. The brutality that these animals endure would be grounds for felony cruelty charges if inflicted upon our cats and dogs.
Because animals are property, we consider as 'humane treatment' that we would regard as torture if it were inflicted on humans.
Any abuse of animals is the same as abuse of men, women, or children.
Cruelty is a tyrant that's always attended with fear.
Cruelty is all out of ignorance. If you knew what was in store for you, you wouldn't hurt anybody, because whatever you do comes back much more forceful than you send it out.
I urge you to ask yourself just how honorable it is to preside over the abuse and suffering of animals.
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.