Nick Clooney Quotes

It is much easier to show compassion to animals. They are never wicked.

If you treat animals how you want to be treated, you're a lot better off.

If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans.

A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist, and shrinks from injuring anything that lives.

You can tell by the kindness of a dog how a human should be.

Animal-rights advocates remind us of this admonition: The ways in which people treat animals will be reflected in how people relate to one another.

Whether or not we are religious, respecting others should be seen as just as important as looking out for ourselves, yet it requires discipline to change our bad habits that cause pain to animals.

Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.

Human morality is unthinkable without empathy.

The ways in which people treat animals will be reflected in how people relate to one another.

We're so much more likely to feel sympathy for an animal than another person; thus, the best fiction uses animals to define truly humane behavior.

It is very important to be loving with animals.

I'm not sure anything makes you an outright good person or bad person - that we're all capable of doing good or bad things. And if you want to know how much good you can do, and how much hurt you can do, just ask somebody you love.

Kindness to animals seems to me to be one of the most rudimentary lessons of all.

Were it only to learn benevolence to humankind, we should be merciful to other creatures.

The obligations of law and equity reach only to mankind; but kindness and beneficence should be extended to the creatures of every species, and these will flow from the breast of a true man, as streams that issue from the living fountain.

He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.

Truly, I would not hang a dog by my will, much more a man who hath any honesty in him.

Make a careful list of all things done to you that you abhorred. Don't do them to others, ever.

Men are only as great as they are kind.

My most firmly held value is what Albert Schweitzer termed 'reverence for life.' I take this seriously; many would say that because I extend it to nonhumans, I take it too far.

I don't see why it should be remarkable that you can acquire a reputation for fairness and decency. Those are qualities shared by so many people. And the great majority of people I meet are decent people, just trying to navigate their way through the world without causing too much trouble.

I just want to reflect the respect I have for animals.

He who hates vice hates men.

Do not do to others what you would not have them do to you.