Alphonse de Lamartine Animal Quotations

Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind - it is only the difference in the victim.

...to kill animals for the purpose of feeding on their flesh is one of the most deplorable and shameful infirmities of the human state

We cannot have two hearts, one for the animals and one for men. In cruelty towards the former and cruelty to the latter there is no difference but in the victim.

My mother was convinced, and on this head I have retained her firm belief, that to kill animals for the purpose of feeding on their flesh is one of the most deplorable and shameful infirmities of the human state; that it is one of those curses cast upon man either by his fall, or by the obduracy of his own perversity.

We don't have two hearts, one for animals and one for humans ; we have one heart or we don't have any.