“Life is life--whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat or a man. The idea of difference is a human conception for man's own advantage.”
— Sri Aurobindo
“If you could see or feel the suffering you wouldn't think twice. Give back life. Don't eat meat.”
— Kim Basinger
“All creation has the same right to life.”
— Sun Bear and Jaya Bear
“The question is not, Can they reason? nor Can they talk? but, Can they suffer?”
— Jeremy Bentham
“Fork: An instrument used chiefly for the purpose of putting dead animals into the mouth.”
— Ambrose Bierce
“When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.”
— Buddha
“Dear Lord, I've been asked, nay commanded, to thank Thee for the Christmas turkey before us... a turkey which was no doubt a lively, intelligent bird... a social being... capable of actual affection... nuzzling its young with almost human-like compassion. Anyway, it's dead and we're gonna eat it. Please give our respects to its family.”
— Berke Breathed
“I don`t hold animals superior or even equal to humans. The whole case for behaving decently to animals rests on the fact that we are the superior species. We are the species uniquely capable of imagination, rationality, and moral choice - and that is precisely why we are under an obligation to recognize and respect the rights of animals.”
— Brigid Brophy
“Whenever people say "we must be unsentimental" you can take it to mean they are about to do something cruel. And if they add, "we must be realistic" they mean they are going to make money out of it.”
— Brigid Brophy
“The person who is afraid to alter his living habits, and especially his eating and drinking habits, because he is afraid that other persons may regard him as queer, eccentric, or fanatic forgets that the ownership of his body, the responsibility for its well-being, belongs to him, not them.”
— Dr. Paul Brunton
“Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.”
— Samuel Butler
“May all that have life be delivered from suffering.”
— Buddha
“To avoid causing terror to living beings, let the disciple refrain from eating meat.”
— Buddha
“When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.”
— Buddha
“Life is life's greatest gift. Guard the life of another creature as you would your own because it is your own. On life's scale of values, the smallest is no less precious to the creature that owns it than the largest.”
— Lloyd Buggle Jr.
“...many vivisectors still claim that what they do helps save human lives. They are Iying. The truth is that animal experiments kill people, and animal researchers are responsible for the deaths of thousands of men, women and children every year.”
— Dr. Vernon Coleman
“If human civilization is going to invade the waters of the earth, then let it be, first of all, to carry a message of respect - respect for all life.”
— Jacques Cousteau
“Not having known anything better does not alleviate the suffering of the animal. Its fundamental desires remain and it is the frustration of those desires that is a great part of its suffering. There are so many examples: the dairy cow who is never allowed to raise her young, the battery hen who can never walk or stretch her wings, the sow who can never build a nest or root for food in the forest litter, etc. Eventually we frustrate the animal's most fundamental desire of all - to live.”
— David Cowles “Show me the enforced laws of a state for the prevention of cruelty to animals and I in turn will give you a correct estimate of the refinement, enlightenment, integrity and equality of that commonwealth's people.”
— L.T. Danshiell
“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
“The difference in mind between man and the higher animals, great as it is, certainly is one of degree and not of kind.”
— Charles Darwin
“The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man.”
— Charles Darwin
“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
“The time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look on the murder of men."
— Leonardo Da Vinci
“You put a baby in a crib with an apple and a rabbit. If it eats the rabbit and plays with the apple, I'll buy you a new car.”
— Harvey Diamond
“Flesh eating is unprovoked murder.”
— Ben Franklin
“Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.”
— James A. Froude
“It ill becomes us to invoke in our daily prayers the blessings of God, the Compassionate, if we in turn will not practice elementary compassion towards our fellow creatures.”
— Mohandas"Mahatma" Gandhi
“The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.”
— Mohandas "Mahatma" Gandhi
“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.”
— Mohandas "Mahatma" Gandhi
“I do not regard flesh-food as necessary for us at any stage and under any clime in which it is possible for human beings ordinarily to live. I hold flesh-food to be unsuited to our species. We err in copying the lower animal world - if we are superior to it.”
— Mohandas "Mahatma" Gandhi
“I do feel that spiritual progress does demand at some stage that we
should cease to kill our fellow creatures for the satisfaction of our bodily wants.”
— Mohandas "Mahatma" Gandhi
“I abhor vivisection with my whole soul. All the scientific discoveries stained with innocent blood I count as of no consequence.”
— Mohandas "Mahatma" Gandhi
To see the universal and all-pervading Spirit of Truth face to face one must be able to love the meanest of creation as oneself.”
— Mohandas "Mahatma" Gandhi
“One is dearest to God who has no enemies among the living beings, who is nonviolent to all creatures.”
— Bhagavad Gita
“In fact, if one person is unkind to an animal it is considered to be cruelty, but where a lot of people are unkind to animals, especially in the name of commerce, the cruelty is condoned and, once large sums of money are at stake, will be defended to the last by otherwise intelligent people.”
— Ruth Harrison
“Ever occur to you why some of us can be this much concerned with animals' suffering? Because government is not. Why not? Animals don't vote.”
— Paul Harvey
“Respect the old and cherish the young. Even insects, grass and trees you must not hurt.”
— Attr. Ko Hung
“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 Jefferson
“Cruelty to dumb animals is one of the distinguishing vices of low and base minds. Wherever it is found, it is a certain mark of ignorance and meanness; a mark which all the external advantages of wealth, splendour, and nobility, cannot obliterate. It is consistent neither with learning nor true civility.”
— William Jones |
