4th October is celebrated as World Animal Day across the world to elevate the standard of animals and improve their welfare standards. It also seeks to mobilise people for action now for a better future for animals.
This day is observed on 4th October to commemorate the feast day of St. Francis of Assisi, widely recognized as the patron saint of ecology and of animals.
On this day, here are some wonderful and thought-provoking quotes on animals.
Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened. ― Anatole France
The way you treat the animals around you will be the nature of the animal within you. ― Sir P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar
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
Animals are such agreeable friends―they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms. ― George Eliot
If Animals Spoke, Humanity would Cry. ― Manuj Rajput
Animals are born who they are, accept it, and that is that. They live with greater peace than people do. ― Gregory Maguire
Clearly, animals know more than we think, and think a great deal more than we know. ― Irene M. Pepperberg
The time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men. – Leonardo Da Vinci
You can always tell about somebody by the way they put their hands on an animal. – Betty White
The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. ― Mahatma Gandhi
Animals are reliable, many full of love, true in their affections, predictable in their actions, grateful and loyal. Difficult standards for people to live up to. – Alfred A. Montapert
Such short little lives our pets have to spend with us, and they spend most of it waiting for us to come home each day. – John Grogan
Love the animals: God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled. -Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Pets are humanizing. They remind us we have an obligation and responsibility to preserve and nurture and care for all life. – James Cromwell
Animals are more than ever a test of our character, of mankind’s capacity for empathy and for decent, honorable conduct and faithful stewardship. We are called to treat them with kindness, not because they have rights or power or some claim to equality, but in a sense because they don’t; because they all stand unequal and powerless before us. ― Matthew Scully
We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form. – William Inge
Because we have viewed other animals through the myopic lens of our self-importance, we have misperceived who and what they are. Because we have repeated our ignorance, one to the other, we have mistaken it for knowledge. ― Tom Regan
An animal’s eyes have the power to speak a great language. – Martin Buber
I’ve never met an animal I didn’t like, and I can’t say the same thing about people. – Doris Day
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
As custodians of the planet, it is our responsibility to deal with all species with kindness, love and compassion. That these animals suffer through human cruelty is beyond understanding. Please help to stop this madness. – Richard Gere
It is much easier to show compassion to animals. They are never wicked. – Haile Selassie
Here is wishing and hoping that from today, all violence and brutality against a
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