The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for whites or women for men. — Alice Walker, Author of The Color Purple
The soul is the same in all living creatures, although the body of each is different. — Hippocrates
The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. — Mohandas Gandhi
If a man aspires toward a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from injury to animals. — Leo Tolstoy
The day may come when the rest of the animal creation may acquire those rights which never could have been withheld from them but by the hand of tyranny. — Jeremy Bentham
All good things are wild, and free. — Henry David Thoreau (poet)
Now I can look at you in peace; I don't eat you anymore. — Franz Kafka (novelist)
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. — Mahatma Gandhi (statesman and philosopher) | | Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little. — Edmund Burke
Man is the only animal that blushes, or needs to. — Mark Twain
All great movements experience three stages: Ridicule. Discussion. Adoption. — John Stuart Mill
Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances of survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution of a vegetarian diet. — Albert Einstein
If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear. — George Orwell (author)
Because the heart beats under a covering of hair, of fur, feathers, or wings, it is, for that reason, to be of no account? — Jean Paul Richter (satirist)
What is it that should trace the insuperable line? ...The question is not, Can they reason? nor Can they talk? but, Can they suffer? — Jeremy Bentham (philosopher)
Compassion for animals is intimately connected with goodness of character; and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to animals cannot be a good man. — Arthur Schopenhauer (philosopher)
Our task must be to free ourselves...by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty. — Albert Einstein (physicist, Nobel 1921) | | 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 (author)
Animals are my friends...and I don't eat my friends. — George Bernard Shaw (playwright, Nobel 1925)
While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered beasts, how can we expect any ideal conditions on this earth? — George Bernard Shaw (playwright, Nobel 1925)
Atrocities are not less atrocities when they occur in laboratories and are called medical research. — George Bernard Shaw (playwright, Nobel 1925)
Vivisection is a social evil because if it advances human knowledge, it does so at the expense of human character. — George Bernard Shaw (playwright, Nobel 1925)
The fate of animals is of greater importance to me than the fear of appearing ridiculous. — Emile Zola (author)
It is man's sympathy with all creatures that first makes him truly a man. — Albert Schweitzer (missionary and statesman, Nobel 1952)
All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. — Edmund Burke (statesman and orator) |
