My doctrine is this, that if we see cruelty or wrong that we have the power to stop, and do nothing, we make ourselves sharers in the guilt.
"Anna Sewell" was an English novelist, best known as the author of the classic novel Black Beauty.
If you enjoy these quotes, be sure to check out other famous writers! More Anna Sewell on Wikipedia.I am never afraid of what I know.
We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because they have no words.
Though I am an old horse, and have seen and heard a great deal, I never yet could make out why men are so fond of this sport; they often hurt themselves, often spoil good horses, and tear up the fields, and all for a hare, or a fox, or a stag, that they could get more easily some other way; but we are only horses, and don't know.
Master said, God had given men reason, by which they could find out things for themselves; but He gave animals knowledge . . . which was much more prompt and perfect in its way, and by which they had often saved the lives of men.
Now I say that with cruelty and oppression it is everybody's business to interfere when they see it.
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