"When it comes
to having a central nervous system, and the ability to feel pain, hunger, and
thirst, a rat is a pig is a dog is a boy."
-- Ingrid Newkirk
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*
We should be evolving into a new age of business with a worldview that maintains
one simple proposition—that all of nature: humans, animals, earth, are interconnected
and interdependent.
-- Anita
Roddick |
"To a man whose
mind is free there is something even more intolerable in the sufferings of animals
than in the sufferings of man. For with the latter it is at least admitted that
suffering is evil and that the man who causes it is a criminal. But thousands
of animals are uselessly butchered every day without a shadow of remorse. If any
man were to refer to it, he would be thought ridiculous. And that is the unpardonable
crime."
-- Romain Rolland, author, Nobel Prize 1915
*
"It seems to me of great importance to teach children respect for life. Towards
this end, experiments on living animals in classrooms should be stopped. To encourage
cruelty in the name of science can only destroy the finer emotions of affection
and sympathy, and breed an unfeeling callousness in the young towards suffering
in all living creatures."
-- Eleanor
Roosevelt |  |
You know, we all
oppose animal cruelty. But sometimes we forget that animals on farms suffer and
feel pain like all other animals. They, too, deserve to be protected from harm
and cruelty.
-- Charlotte Ross
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*
"It is not THIS bloodshed, or THAT bloodshed, that must cease; but ALL bloodshed
- all wanton infliction of pain or death."
-- Henry
Salt |
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
"The
assumption that animals are without rights, and the illusion that our treatment
of them has no moral significance, is a positively outrageous example of Western
crudity and barbarity. Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality."
-- Arthur Schopenhauer
 | *
We must fight against the spirit of unconscious cruelty with which we treat the
animals. Animals suffer as much as we do. True humanity does not allow us to impose
such sufferings on them. It is our duty to make the whole world recognize it.
Until we extend our circle of compassion to all living things, humanity will not
find peace.
-- Albert
Schweitzer "A
man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals
as well as that of his fellowman, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all
life that is in need of help."
-- Dr. Albert Schweitzer |
The thinking man
must oppose all cruel customs no matter how deeply rooted in tradition and surrounded
by a halo. When we have a choice, we must avoid bringing torment and injury into
the life of another, even the lowliest creature; to do so is to renounce our manhood
and shoulder a guilt which nothing justifies.
-- Albert
Schweitzer
It
is the fate of every truth to be an object of ridicule when it is first acclaimed.
It was once considered foolish to suppose that black men were really human beings
and ought to be treated as such. What was once foolish has now become a recognized
truth. Today it is considered as exaggeration to proclaim constant respect for
every form of life as being the serious demand of a rational ethic. But the time
is coming when people will be amazed that the human race existed so long before
it recognized that thoughtless injury to life is incompatible with real ethics.
Ethics is in its unqualified form extended responsibility to everything that has
life.
-- Albert
Schweitzer
Compassion,
in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth
if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind. Albert
Schweitzer
-- Albert
Schweitzer
The
human spirit is not dead. It lives on in secret.... It has come to believe that
compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth
and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.
-- Albert
Schweitzer
"A
man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals
as well as that of his fellowman, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all
life that is in need of help."
-- Albert
Schweitzer
"Anyone
who has accustomed himself to regard the life of any living creature as worthless
is in danger of arriving also at the idea of worthless human lives."
--
Albert Schweitzer
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*
What is man without the beasts? If all the beasts were gone, man would die from
a great loneliness of the spirit. For whatever happens to the beasts, soon happens
to man. All things are connected.
~ Chief
Seattle
We
are part of the earth and it is part of us. The perfumes
flowers are our sisters; the deer, the horse, the great
eagle: these are our brothers. All things are connected
like the blood which unites one's family.
~ Chief
Seattle |
| *
"If a group of beings from another planet were to land on Earth -- beings who
considered themselves as superior to you as you feel yourself to be to other animals
-- would you concede them the rights over you that you assume over other animals?"
-- George Bernard Shaw
"Atrocities are
not less atrocities when they occur in laboratories and are called medical research."
-- George Bernard Shaw
Vivisection is
a social evil because if it advances human knowledge, it does so at the expense
of human character.
-- George
Bernard Shaw | 
|
When a man wants
to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when the tiger wants to murder him he calls
it ferocity
-- George Bernard
Shaw
"The
worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent
to them; that's the essence of humanity."
-- George
Bernard Shaw
|
Many
people feel drawn to advocate for animals because even
though they can feel pain and suffer just as we do, they
do not have a way to advocate for their own welfare. In
fact, animals are viewed by many as nothing more than
property to be treated however the owner wishes. This
view has created an inhumane situation for billions of
animals that share our world.
-- Robert Alan Silverstein
|
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 | *
Animals are being exploited in such an unbelievable way; it's not acceptable.
-- Alicia Silverstone *
I
know what it feels like to be hurt,and I don't want to cause that pain to any
other person or creature. But somehow, in society, we numb ourselves in order
to make money or to feel better about ourselves, such as with cosmetics or food.
We say to ourselves, I'm going to use this animal. I'm going to say it doesn't
have much worth so that I can allow myself to do these cruel things. And that
just isn't fair.
-- Alicia
Silverstone |
Once
people spend time with farm animals in a loving way ... a pig or cow or a little
chicken or a turkey, they might find they relate with them the same way they relate
with dogs and cats. People don't really think of them that way because they're
on the plate. Why should they be food when other animals are pets? I would never
eat my doggies.
-- Alicia
Silverstone
Animals
are being exploited in such an unbelievable way; it's not acceptable. PETA is
trying to get your attention, and they're successful at it. ... If you talk to
people who grew up on a farm, they'll tell you that they had an experience where
they were taking care of a cow, and one day their parents took it away and killed
it. It's a torturous experience for them, and that's when they became hard. People
are taught to be grown-up or whatever, and that's dumb. That bond they had with
that cow or chicken was real.
-- Alicia
Silverstone
I
don't have any understanding of a human being who doesn't respect the beauty of
life and that goes for all creatures that have thoughts,feelings and needs.
-- Alicia Silverstone
As
long as people will shed the blood of innocent creatures there can be no peace,
no liberty, no harmony between people. Slaughter and justice cannot dwell together.
-- Isaac Bashevis Singer
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*
...it is difficult to picture the great Creator conceiving of a program of one
creature (which He has made) using another living creature for purposes of experimentation.
There must be other, less cruel ways of obtaining knowledge.
-- Adlai
Stevenson |
Animals give me more
pleasure through the viewfinder of a camera than they ever did in the crosshairs
of a gunsight. And after I've finished "shooting," my unharmed victims are still
around for others to enjoy. I have developed a deep respect for animals. I consider
them fellow living creatures with certain rights that should not be violated any
more than those of humans.
~Jimmy Stewart
*
We should remember in our dealings with animals that they are a sacred trust to
us from our heavenly Father. They are dumb and cannot speak for themselves.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe |
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