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• The question is not, “Can they reason?” nor, “Can they talk?” but rather, “Can they suffer?” –Jeremy Bentham
• Life is life–whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat or a man. The idea of difference is a human conception for man’s own advantage. –Sri Aurobindo
• God loved the birds and invented trees.  Man loved the birds and invented cages. —Jacques Deval, Afin de vivre bel et bien
• Cruelty is one fashion statement we can all do without.–Rue McClanahan
• “Animals on factory farms and slaughter houses are mutilated, drugged and abused in ways that would be illegal if dogs or cats were treated similarly. The problem is that farm animals are exempted from the Animal Welfare Act. Therefore, companies often act with impunity.”– Bruce Friedrich
• Why should man expect his prayer for mercy to be heard by What is above him when he shows no mercy to what is under him? – Pierre Troubetzkoy
• Hunting is not a sport.  In a sport, both sides should know they’re in the game. —-Paul Rodriguez
• “We cannot have peace among men whose hearts find delight in killing any living creature.”—Rachel Carson, American Author and Marine Biologis
• “He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.” – Immanuel Kant, German Philosopher
• May all that have life be delivered from suffering?
  – Buddha
• If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons. – C.S. Lewis
• “A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist, and shrinks from injuring anything that lives.” – Albert Schweitzer, Alsatian Theologian, Musician, and Medical Missionary
• People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it’s safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs. – Author Unknown
• The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man.
  – Charles Darwin
• “The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.” - Mahatma Gandhi, Indian Statesman and Philosopher
• I ask people why they have deer heads on their walls.  They always say because it’s such a beautiful animal.  There you go.  I think my mother is attractive, but I have photographs of her. – Ellen DeGeneres
• Killing an animal to make a coat is sin. It wasn’t meant to be, and we have no right to do it. A woman gains status when she refuses to see anything killed to be put on her back. Then she’s truly beautiful.
  – Doris Day
• “If only we can overcome cruelty, to human and animal, with love and compassion we shall stand at the threshold of a new era in human moral and spiritual evolution – and realize, at last, our most unique quality: humanity.” – Jane Goodall, Author of Reason for Hope

These are the few animal cruelty quotes which when read touch the heart and make us feel why are we so cruel and why are we letting down our nation and human moral.