"The question is not, "Can they reason?" nor, "Can they talk?" but rather, "Can they suffer?" ~Jeremy Bentham
"There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life - music and cats."
~Albert Schweitzer
"As every cat owner knows, nobody owns a cat."
~Ellen Perry Berkeley
"I had been told that the training procedure with cats was difficult. It's not. Mine had me trained in two days. "
~Bill Dana
"There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face."
~Ben Williams
"A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself."
~Josh Billings
"I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it."
~Abraham Lincoln
"Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight."
~Albert Schweitzer
"Life is life - whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat or a man. The idea of difference is a human conception for man's own advantage."
~Sri Aurobindo
"Teaching a child not to step on a caterpillar is as valuable to the child as it is to the caterpillar." ~Bradley Millar
"My doctrine is this: that if we see cruelty or wrong that we have the power to stop, and we do nothing, we make ourselves sharers in the guilt." - Anna Sewell
"Cherish the wonderful ways our animals are models of living life to the fullest, loving unconditionally, embracing the passion within, and being completely in the present moment." - Susan White
"The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated."
- Mahatma Gandhi
