Through Our Eyes

Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.

– George Eliot

The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

 -Mahatma Gandhi

I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.

-Winston Churchill

I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men will look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men.

-Leonardo da Vinci

Who loves me loves my dog.

                                                          -Latin Proverb

What is man without the beasts? If all the beasts were gone, man would die from a great loneliness of spirit. For whatever happens to the beasts, soon happens to man. All things are connected.

 -Chief Seattle

We know what the animals do, what are the needs of the beaver, the bear, the salmon, and other creatures, because long ago men married them and acquired this knowledge from their animal wives. Today the priests say we lie, but we know better.

 -Native Americans

Mankind’s true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals. And in this respect mankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it.

 -Milan Kundera

Mankind differs from the animals only by a little and most people throw that away.

 -Confucius

I fear animals regard man as a creature of their own kind which has in a highly dangerous fashion lost its healthy animal reason — as the mad animal, as the laughing animal, as the weeping animal, as the unhappy animal.

-Friedrich Nietzsche