Hunting Quotes – 25 Sayings About Hunting Wild Animals

Looking for hunting quotes and inspirational sayings about hunting? Then you are absolutely right here! But that doesn't mean that I'm putting together a collection of sayings that will motivate you to hunt. On the contrary. We humans exterminate entire species - and pay a lot of money for the fact that we can cowardly pull the trigger and kill defenseless, wild animals.

Now here I want to give you some anti hunting sayings that will inspire you to get involved against human hunting of wild animals and also against tourist big game hunting.

My please: Keep in mind that many of the quotes about hunting have been translated into English from other languages. I cannot guarantee that it is the original quote in each case. Therefore, double check them before you share them. If you like and share any of the quotes in the internet, please link this elaborately created collection. Thank you for your support!

25 Hunting Quotes As Inspiration Against Hunting Wild Animals

The (illegal) hunting for horn, tusks, fins and other animal body parts has ensured that thousands of animal species are threatened with extinction. But with education and targeted measures, we can counteract this deplorable state of affairs in our global society. As promised, I've put together some stirring quotes about hunting for you to use below.

Hunting Quotes 1 - 10

1. "They don't know that they are only looking for the hunt and not the prey." (Blaise Pascal)
2. "If a person is determined to kill the tiger, it is called sport, and if the tiger decided to kill a man, it is called bloodlust." (George Bernard Shaw)
3. "In the past, man hunted to live - today, to experience." (Stefan Rogal)
4. "People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war, or before an election." (Otto von Bismarck)
5. "If you want to be a fair hunter, give the hare a gun too." (Greek proverb)
6. "Hunters are people who no one can talk out of the fact that there is no greater pleasure for a buck than being hit by a bullet." (Brigitte Bardot)
7. "Truly man is the king of beasts, for his brutality exceeds them. We live by the death of others. We are burial places." (Leonardo da Vinci)
8. "Even the most beautiful doe eyes do not impress the hunter." (Harald Schmid)
9. "Small fisherman have an advantage: the fish looks bigger when they're photographed." (Proverb)
10. "He is not a hunter, but he has the tendency to exaggerate." (Otto Prince of Bismarck)

Hunting Quotes 11 - 20

11. "I ask people why they have deer heads on their walls. They always say because it's such a beautiful animal. There you go. I think my mother is attractive, but I have photographs of her." (Ellen DeGeneres)
12. "As long as people think that animals don't feel, animals will have to feel that people don't think." (Unknown)
13. "There is no place in nature for extinction." (Lucretius)
14. "Hunting is only a cowardly euphemism for particularly cowardly murder of fellow creatures who have no chance. Hunting is a secondary form of human mental illness." (Theodor Heuss)
15. "Humanity is another endangered species." (Unknown)
16. "Animals flee from man because they can no longer recognize God's image in them." (Manfred Kyber)
17. "Compassion for animals is intimately associated with goodness of character, and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to animals cannot be a good man." (Arthur Schopenhauer)
18. "For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other." (Pythagoras)
19. "Love is a hunt in which the hunter is pursued by the game." (Alphonse Karr)
20. "Tradition will accustom people to any atrocity." (George Bernard Shaw)

Tip: I have also sent you two collections with Species protection quotes and Animal Welfare Quotes which you can also be inspired by.

Hunting Quotes 21 - 25

21. "As I know, the best hope for any species on earth today is that some group of people will love them." (Alexandra Morton)
22. "It is the anonymity of animal victims that makes us deaf to their cries." (Luise Rinser)
23. "Hunting is not a sport. In a sport, both sides should know they're in the game." (Paul Rodriguez)
24. "The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated." (Mahatma Gandhi)
25. "Be ready to cherish and to care! Leave the killing to the course of time!" (Franz Graf von Pocci)

Was versteht man unter einem Jäger oder einer Jägerin?

Als Jäger:in wird eine Person bezeichnet, die auf die Jagd geht, um ein Tier zu töten und es zu Fleisch zu verarbeiten. Heutzutage gilt die Jagd als Sport bzw. Hobby. Jäger:innen geben an, zu jagen, weil sie sich um die heimischen Wildtiere sorgen und ihre Bestände kontrollieren müssen, um die Waldbäume zu schützen.

Reguliert sich die Natur selbst?

Jäger:innen behaupten beispielsweise, dass sie jagen gehen, um die Tierpopulationen zu kontrollieren und um kranke Tiere zu erlösen. Doch tatsächlich sind überhöhte Wildbestände selbst eine Folge der Jagd – denn das Töten der Tiere zerstört ihre Familienverbände und Sozialstrukturen und führt zu einem unkontrollierten Fortpflanzungsrhythmus. Die Natur ist schlichtweg ein sich selbst regulierendes System, dass auch ohne das Zutun des Menschen funktioniert.

Was kann man einen Jäger oder eine Jägerin fragen?

Es gibt unzählige Dinge, die man von einem Jäger oder einer Jägerin lernen oder in Erfahrung bringen kann. Mögliche Fragen sind zum Beispiel „Wie kommt man dazu, andere Lebewesen zu erschießen?“, „Wie fühlt es sich an, die Macht über ein Leben zu haben?“ oder „Haben Sie Mitleid mit dem Tier, dass Sie erschießen?“.

Using Quotes And Sayings About Wild Animal Hunting For Education

Nothing is worse than simply accepting hunting wild animals and the animal heads that adorn our living room walls and, in the form of rugs, our floors, as a normal part of our culture. Because it isn't. It is the desire to kill and the thrill. Whereby I don't understand where the thrill is in killing a defenseless, wild animal from a safe distance by unfair means.

I hope that I could give you some hunting quotes here that will also convince you to get involved against hunting tourism and hunting itself.

Do you have any questions or can you think of any other quotes? As always, feel free to leave me a comment.

Be always kind to animals,

PS.: Feel free to look further in the animal welfare blog around! There you will learn for example more about the Background of the fur industry.