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Quotes About Compassion

In the end, I think it would be lovely if we stopped this whole notion of pets altogether.
~ Ingrid Newkirk
Men will be just to men when they are kind to animals.
~ Henry Bergh
In a perfect world, we would not keep animals for our benefit, including pets.
~ Tom Regan
"Love covers a multitude of sins," (I Pet. 4:8). That is, for love towards one's neighbor, God forgives the sins of the one who loves.
~ Theophan the Recluse
My biggest pet peeve is inconsiderate people.
~ Trista Sutter
Pets have more love and compassion in them than most humans.
~ Robert Wagner
If we have some pet animals, we should feed them also before taking our food. Perceive God in every living being and feed them with that attitude.
~ Mata Amritanandamayi
Teach your children how to behave with animals. Adopt a pet. Don't go buy one. Please. That's a sin. Let's get these puppy mills out of business.
~ Shelley Morrison
Animals don't lie. Animals don't criticize. If animals have moody days, they handle them better than humans do.
~ Betty White
Love is love, whether it goes on two legs or four.
~ Gwen Cooper
Hey! You can be more than just a car company. You can be more than just a pet food company. You can aspire to loving dogs, rather than just feeding dogs.
~ Lee Clow
It doesn't matter if an animal can reason. It matters only that it is capable of suffering and that is why I consider it my neighbor.
~ Albert Schweitzer
Somewhere in the rain, there will always be an abandoned dog that prevents you from being happy.
~ Aldous Huxley
Two-legged creatures we are supposed to love as we love ourselves. The four-legged, also, can come to seem pretty important. But six legs are too many from the human standpoint.
~ Joseph Wood Krutch
Having pets in the house helps everyone have a reverence for life.
~ Bernie Siegel
Here, Gentlemen, a dog teaches us a lesson in humanity.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
The public hardly suspects that their purchase of cosmetics, pet food, toothpaste, eggs and other common items have, in all likelihood, caused some form of animal suffering.
~ Marianne Thieme
Saving just one pet won't change the world but surely the world will change for that one pet.
~ Hilary Swank
One day, we would like an end to pet shops and the breeding of animals.
~ Ingrid Newkirk
I am a huge animal lover. I prefer to rescue any of the pets that I have had.
~ A. J. McLean
You can pet him, Mr. Arthur. He's asleep.
~ Harper Lee
Animals were my pets, and the thought of eating my pets freaked me out.
~ Carrie Underwood
They're not so bad. They just need some attention. ...Like pets. Or my brother.
~ Rick Riordan
I think having pets helps sensitize people to the natural world.
~ Glenn Close