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“Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.”

“We felt that the public, and especially the children, like animals that are cute and little. I think we are rather indebted to Charlie Chaplin for the idea. We wanted something appealing, and we thought of a tiny bit of a mouse that would have something of the wistfulness of Chaplin - a little fellow trying to do the best he could.”

Thinking Trying Children Littles Ideas Wanted Felt Bits Animal Fellows Tiny Cute Mice Do The Best Charlie Indebted Chaplin Wistfulness

Author:Walt Disney

“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.”

Way Humans Heart Human Beings Animal Fellows Dinner Drawing Mortals Vegetarian Glimpse Humane Godlike

Author:John Muir

“When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe. One fancies a heart like our own must be beating in every crystal and cell, and we feel like stopping to speak to the plants and animals as friendly fellow-mountaineers. Nature as a poet, an enthusiastic workingman, becomes more and more visible the farther and higher we go.”

Source: My First Summer in the Sierra: Illustrated Edition

“A critic recently described me, with deadly acuteness, as having 'a kindly dislike of my fellow-creatures.' Perhaps dread would have been nearer the mark than dislike; for man is the only animal of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.”

Men Has Beens Animal Creatures Mark Fellows Critics Dislike Dread

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“The mortal enemies of man are not his fellows of another continent or race; they are the aspects of the physical world which limit or challenge his control, the disease germs that attack him and his domesticated plants and animals, and the insects that carry many of these germs as well as working notable direct injury. This is not the age of man, however great his superiority in size and intelligence; it is literally the age of insects.”

“But man is above all a social and political animal; his relations with his fellow human beings form his most absorbing and important interest.”

Men Humans Important Form Political Social Interest Human Beings Animal Relation Fellows Absorbing Political Animals

Author:Logan Pearsall Smith

“That cruelty which children are permitted to show to birds and other animals will most probably exert itself on their fellow creatures when at years of maturity.”

Years Children Shows Animal Creatures Bird Fellows Cruelty Maturity Cuckoos

Book:A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments: a facsimile reproduction

Source: A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments: a facsimile reproduction

“If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men.”

“I collaborated with fellow cat lover and designer Geren Ford to create a sweater that we hope any cat parent would wear to show their kitty pride and that all animal lovers can wear in support of the ASPCA.”

Shows Parent Animal Support Pride Lovers Cat Fellows Designer Sweaters Animal Love Kitties Animal Lover Cat Lover Aspca

Author:Kellie Pickler

“We are not only gregarious animals, liking to be in sight of our fellows, but we have an innate propensity to get ourselves noticed, and noticed favorably, by our kind.”

Kind Animal Society Sight Fellows Innate Propensity Gregarious

Book:The Principles of Psychology

Source: The Principles of Psychology

“In seeking to avoid evil, humanity is responsible for bringing more evil into the world than organisms could ever do merely by exercising their digestive tracts. It is our ingenuity, rather than our animal nature, that has given our fellow creatures such a bitter earthly fate.”

World Humanity Evil Given Animal Fate Exercise Creatures Responsible Fellows Seeking Bitter Organisms Ingenuity

Author:Ernest Becker

“There was no last animal I treated. When young farm lads started to help me over the gate into a field or a pigpen, to make sure the old fellow wouldn't fall, I started to consider retiring.”

Helping Lasts Young Fall Animal Fields Fellows Treated Help Me Gates Retirement Farms Retiring Lad Funny Retirement

Author:James Herriot

“Immediately upon the fall, the mind of man shrank from its primitive greatness and expandedness, to an exceeding smallness and contractedness... Before, his soul was under the government of the noble principles of divine love, whereby it was enlarged to the comprehensiveness of all his fellow creatures and their welfare... [But] sin, like some powerful astringent, contracted his soul to the very small dimensions of selfishness, and God was forsaken, and man retired within himself, and became totally governed by narrow and selfish principles and feelings.”

“This is historically what happens whenever revolutionaries begin to take the oppression and suffering of their fellow beings seriously, whether human or nonhuman. It's regrettable that certain scientists are willing to put their families at risk by choosing to do wasteful animal experiments in this day and age.”

Humans Happens Age Certain Suffering Animal Risk Willing Scientist Fellows Experiments Oppression Revolutionary This Day

Author:Jerry Vlasak