- By Ridam Sharma
- Wed, 10 Dec 2025 10:33 AM (IST)
- Source:JND
Quotes For Animal Rights: International Animal Rights Day is a global awareness campaign, coincides with Human Rights Day and highlights the basic right to life for everyone. The day highlights the fact that animals are sentient beings and deserve rights against exploitation and to build a more compassionate world together. The day is also about raising awareness about cruelty against animals and promoting ethical treatment for them. International Animal Rights Day 2025 is also about rethinking our attitudes toward animals and making choices that would not affect these voiceless animals. To promote the day, here is a list of more than 50 quotes and slogans to be a voice for the voiceless on the key event of International Animal Rights Day 2025.
List Of 50+ Inspiring Quotes And Slogans For International Animal Rights Day 2025:
1. “If we can teach people about wildlife, they will be touched. Share my wildlife with me. Because humans want to save things that they love.”
- Steve Irwin
2. “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.”
- Emmanuel Kant
3. “To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being. I should be unwilling to take the life of a lamb for the sake of the human body. I hold that the more helpless a creature, the more entitled it is to the protection by man from the cruelty of man.”
- Mahatma Gandhi
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4. “It’s not enough to love animals; we must actively protect and preserve them. It’s our duty and responsibility as custodians of this planet.”
- Daphne Sheldrick
5. “It takes nothing away from a human to be kind to an animal.”
- Joaquin Phoenix
6. “Every individual can make a positive impact on the lives of elephants and all animals. It starts with education, empathy, and taking action.”
- Sangdeun “Lek” Chailert
7. “Every individual can make a positive impact on the lives of elephants and all animals. It starts with education, empathy, and taking action.”
- Sangdeun “Lek” Chailert
8. “You cannot share your life with a dog… or a cat, and not know perfectly well that animals have personalities and minds and feelings.”
- Jane Goodall
9. “There is no fundamental difference between man and the higher animals in their mental faculties. The lower animals, like man, manifestly feel pleasure and pain, happiness and misery.”
- Charles Darwin
10. “The animal shall not be measured by man. In a world older and more complete than ours, they move finished and complete, gifted with the extension of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear.”
- Caroline Earle White
11. “Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.”
- Anatole France
12. “When it comes to the last hour of your life, it will be a great consolation to feel that you always protect the poor, the helpless, and the unfortunate; and that you exercised a particular care towards animals.”
- Caroline Earle White
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13. “Pets are humanising. They remind us we have an obligation and responsibility to preserve and nurture, and care for all life.”
- James Cromwell
14. “I could discern clearly, even at that early age, the essential difference between people who are kind to dogs and people who really love them.”
- Frances Power Cobbe
15. “Animals need people, too. They need our care and kindness.”
- Mary Lindeen
16. “People who care about animals tend to care about people. They don’t care about animals to the exclusion of people. Caring is not a finite resource and, even more than that, it’s like a muscle: the more you exercise it, the stronger it gets.”
- Jonathan Foer
17. “My mother and dad were big animal lovers, too. I just don’t know how I would have lived without animals around me. I’m fascinated by them - both domestic pets and the wild community. They just are the most interesting things in the world to me, and it’s made such a difference in my lifetime.”
- Betty White
18. “True compassion is showing kindness towards animals, without expecting anything in return”
- Paul Oxton
19. “You have to love animals for what they are or leave them alone. The best thing you can do if you love them is leave them alone and see that other people do too.”
- Pat Derby
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20. “Love of animals is a universal impulse, a common ground on which all of us may meet. By loving and understanding animals, perhaps we humans shall come to understand each other.”
- Louis J. Camuti
21. “We must remember that our actions towards animals reflect our humanity. It is our responsibility to be compassionate and kind.”
- Velma Bronn Johnston
22. “We need, in a special way, to work twice as hard to help people understand that the animals are fellow creatures, that we must protect them and love them as we love ourselves.”
- Cesar Chavez
23. “We are not superior. There are no clear distinctions between animals and.”
- Michael W. Fox
24. “Like it or not, we humans are bound up with our fellows, and with the other plants and animals all over the world. Our lives are intertwined.”
- Carl Sagan
25. “Species other than man have rights, too. Having finished all the requisites of our proud, materialistic civilisation, our neon-lit society, does nature, which is the basis for our existence, have the right to live on? Do we have enough reverence for life to concede to wilderness this right?”
- Margaret Murie
26. “If you really care about animals, then stop trying to figure out how to exploit them ‘compassionately’. Just stop exploiting them.”
― Gary L Francione
27. “Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.”
- Thomas Edison
28. “I re-trained myself to focus on the good in the world. To focus on hope, happiness, and optimism, rather than the bad I was seeing. My being depressed wasn’t going to help the animals, and it was going to lead to burnout. Animal advocacy is a hard thing because it’s a long, uphill battle, so we really all need to look after ourselves.”
- Jo-Anne McArthur
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29. “We do not have the right to use animals for any real or perceived need, whether it be food, clothing, entertainment, or medical issues.”
- Janine Motta
30. “To survive today, other animals must endure global warming, pollution, and fewer habitats. More tragically, they must endure the silence of human hearts.”
- Anthony Douglas Williams, Inside the Divine Pattern
31. “But are we not working for human beings? Are we not constantly striving to make men and women more humane and disposed to all kindly feelings and to teach children to become gentle and merciful? Is not everything which tends to elevate man in the mortal scale a benefit to him, and is it not rendering him incalculable service to teach him to control his passions, as we do when we prevent him from weakening his anger upon his horses?”
- Caroline Earle White
32. “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. It is amazing how much love and laughter they bring into our lives and even how much closer we become with each other because of them.”
- John Grogan
33. “Dogs do speak, but only to those who know how to listen.”
- Orhan Pamuk
34. “People must have renounced, it seems to me, all natural intelligence to dare to advance that animals are but animated machines… It appears to me, besides, that such people can never have observed with attention the character of animals, not to have distinguished among them the different voices of need, of suffering, of joy, of pain, of love, of anger, and of all their affections. It would be very strange that they should express so well what they could not feel.”
- Voltaire
35. “If you are not vegan, please consider going vegan. It’s a matter of nonviolence. Being vegan is your statement that you reject violence to other sentient beings, to yourself, and to the environment, on which all sentient beings depend.”
- Gary L. Francione
36. “Make a heart connection when speaking with people about veganism. Speak with the intent to listen so you can connect with them on their level. Then what you say will count and have a true effect.”
- Gwenna Hunter
37. “There’s a tremendous amount of pain in the world. Every day, I do the best I can to mitigate that. The easiest thing I can do every single day is to be vegan. I can additionally help animals through my work as a documentary photographer. Some days I can do quite a bit, and other days not so much. But I continue to do my best.”
- Jo-Anne McArthur
38. “I’m a vegetarian and very much active in regards to how I feel about animal rights and protecting animals and giving animals a voice. But at the same time, I appreciate and respect other people’s decisions to eat meat. The only thing that I hope is that people are educated, that they’re aware, that they’re living a conscious lifestyle.”
- Abbie Cornish
39. “Choosing a plant-based lifestyle is an act of empowerment, where we take control of our health and contribute to a more compassionate world.”
- Jane Velez-Mitchell
40. “Being vegan is not about perfection; it’s about progress. It’s about continuously learning and growing to reduce our impact on animals and the environment.”
- Genesis Butler
41. “You can always tell about somebody by the way they put their hands on an animal.”
- Betty White
42. “The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.”
- Mahatma Gandhi
43. “I call my horses ‘divine mirrors’ - they reflect the emotions you put in. If you put in love and respect and kindness and curiosity, the horse will return that.”
- Allan Hamilton
44. “I have always felt that the way we treat animals is a pretty good indicator of the compassion we are capable of for the human race.”
- Ali MacGraw
45. “Our treatment of animals is important to our own internal state. If we are to expand our horizons, to grow to understand what the relatedness of everything means, then our love and appreciation of all life is essential. Our respect and reverence for all living things will be reflected in our own living.”
- Bill Schul
46. “It always matters how you treat other people, how you treat animals, and how you treat yourself. It always matters what you do. It always matters what you say. And it always matters what you eat.”
- John Robbins
47. “The basis of all animal rights should be the Golden Rule: we should treat them as we would wish them to treat us, were any other species in our dominant position.”
- Christine Stevens
48. “Animals have certain rights, as inalienable as those of man to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness”
- Caroline Earle White
49. “Never believe that animals suffer less than humans. Pain is the same for them as it is for us. Even worse, because they cannot help themselves.”
- Louis J. Camuti
50. “Life is as dear to a mute creature as it is to man. Just as one wants happiness and fears pain, just as one wants to live and not die, so do other creatures.”
- The Dalai Lama
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51. “If you look into their [chimpanzees’] eyes, you know you’re looking into a thinking mind. They teach us that we are not the only beings with personalities, minds capable of rational thought, altruism and a sense of humour. That leads to new respect for other animals, respect for the environment and respect for all life.”
- Jane Goodall
52. “I believe animals should be respected as citizens of this earth. They should have the right to their own freedom, their own families, and their own lives.”
- John Feldmann
