“For the animal shall not be measured by man.”
1. "If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans."―James Herriot
2. "Until one has loved an animal, a part of one's soul remains unawakened." ― Anatole France
3. "You think those dogs will not be in heaven! I tell you they will be there long before any of us." ― Robert Louis Stevenson
4. "We patronize the animals for their incompleteness, for their tragic fate of having taken form so far below ourselves. And therein we err, and greatly err. For the animal shall not be measured by man. In a world older and more complete than ours, they are more finished and complete, gifted with extensions of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear. They are not brethren, they are not underlings; they are other Nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendour and travail of the earth." ― Henry Beston
5. "The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men." ― Alice Walker
6. "The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated." ― Mahatma Gandhi
7. "An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language." ― Martin Buber
8. "I think I could turn and live with the animals, they are so placid and self contained;
I stand and look at them long and long.
They do not sweat and whine about their condition;
They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins;
They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God;
Not one is dissatisfied-not one is demented with the mania of owning things;
Not one kneels to another, nor his kind that lived thousands of years ago;
Not one is responsible or industrious over the whole earth." ― Walt Whitman
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