Auschwitz begins wherever someone looks at a slaughterhouse and thinks: they’re only animals.

Humanity's true moral test, its fundamental test…consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals.

Kindness and compassion towards all living things is a mark of a civilized society. Conversely, cruelty, whether it is directed against human beings or against animals, is not the exclusive province of any one culture or community of people.

You always fed strays and bent down to talk to the dogs you met on the street, looking straight into their eyes as if they were old friends. (Maybe they are, you said. From another life.) You liked to go to the pound and look at them. You tried to send them messages of comfort. I couldn’t go because I started crying the one time I tried. All those eyes and the barks like sobs.

Animal Welfare cannot be Delimited by Geographical Boundaries

If ingenious exists in animal cruelty it also exists in animal kindness..