“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.” LifeHumansIdeasHumanityAnimalDangerCreaturesCatAbuseRegardHuman LifeVegetarianVeganAnimal RightsWorthlessAccustomedVegetarianismArrivingAnimal WelfareLiving CreaturesAnimal LoveHuman AnimalAnimal WorldHumans And AnimalsAnimal LifeAnimal EthicsAnimal AbuseKindness To AnimalsAbused Animals Author:Albert Schweitzer
“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 who owns it than the largest.” Life IsValuesAnimalSeaCreaturesOceanAbuseScalesAnimal RightsSmallestMarineGreatest GiftsAnimal WorldAnimal LifeAnimal AbuseMarine LifeSea LifeSmall CreaturesAbused AnimalsSaving AnimalsSmall Animals Author:Lloyd Biggle, Jr.
“I do not like eating meat because I have seen lambs and pigs killed. I saw and felt their pain. They felt the approaching death. I could not bear it. I cried like a child. I ran up a hill and could not breathe. I felt that I was choking. I felt the death of the lamb.” ChildrenPainDeathFeltSawsFoodBearsEatingBreatheCrueltyHillsRanMeatVegetarianVeganAnimal RightsCriedPigsVegetarianismChokeLambsAnimal WorldChoreographersEating AnimalsAnimal AbuseEating MeatMeat EatingApproaching Death Author:Vaslav Nijinsky
“Cruelty is one fashion statement we can all do without.” AnimalFashionIndustryStatementsCrueltyPetVeganAnimal RightsFurAnimal CrueltyAnimal AbuseAnimal TestingInspirational AnimalFashion StatementAbused Animals Author:Rue McClanahan
“Every year tens of thousands of animals suffer and die in laboratory tests of cosmetics and household products...despite the fact that the test results do not help prevent or treat accidental or purposeful misuse of the products. Please join me in using your voice for those whose cries are forever sealed behind the laboratory doors.” YearsFactsHelpingSufferingDiesVoiceAnimalResultsBehindsForeverDoorsCryProductsPleaseTestsTreatsAbuseDespiteAnimal RightsHouseholdLaboratoryCosmeticsMisuseAnimal AbuseVivisectionAnimal TestingAbused Animals Author:Woody Harrelson
“Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.” StillsAnimalRightsViolenceEthicsAbuseCrueltyVegetarianVeganAnimal RightsNonviolenceSavagesTestingVegetarianismVeganismNon ViolencePeace WarAnimal WelfareAnimal CrueltyAnimal LoveVegetarian HealthAhimsaHuman AnimalAnimal WorldHumans And AnimalsPlants And AnimalsPet AnimalsAnimal LifeAnimal CompassionAnimal EthicsAnimal AbuseCruel WorldVegan HealthAnimal TestingVegetarian DietInspirational AnimalViolence And PeaceViolence And WarFur CoatsWildlife AnimalsCompassion Towards AnimalsHarming OthersAbused AnimalsHuman Beings And AnimalsViolence And Cruelty Author:Thomas Jefferson
“I have always felt that the way we treat animals is a pretty good indicator of the compassion we are capable of for the human race.” WayHumansFeltAnimalRaceCompassionCapableTreatsAbuseHuman RaceAnimal RightsIndicatorsHuman AnimalHumans And AnimalsAnimal CompassionAnimal AbuseAbused Animals Author:Ali MacGraw
“It is totally unconscionable to subject defenseless animals to mutilation and death, just so a company can be the first to market a new shade of nail polish or a new, improved laundry detergent. It's cruel, it's brutal, it's inhumane, and most people don't want it.” PeopleWantFirstsAnimalCompanySubjectsAbuseShadeAnimal RightsBrutalNailsPolishLaundryDefenselessAnimal AbuseInhumaneVivisectionAnimal TestingMutilationNail PolishLaundry Detergent Author:Abigail Van Buren
“No one in the world needs a mink coat but a mink.” WorldNeedsAnimalWelfarePetAnimal RightsCoatsWildlifeAnimal WelfareAnimal CrueltyAnimal LovePet AnimalsAnimal AbuseMinkWildlife AnimalsMink Coats Author:Murray Banks
“I don't believe in the concept of hell, but if I did I would think of it as filled with people who were cruel to animals.” PeopleIfsThinkingBelieveAnimalHellViolenceConceptsFilledDon't BelieveCrueltyPetConceptionCartoonistPet AnimalsAnimal AbuseHumans And Dogs Author:Gary Larson
“Being kind to animals is not enough. Avoiding cruelty is not enough. Housing animals in more comfortable, larger cages is not enough. Whether we exploit animals to eat, to wear, to entertain us, or to learn, the truth of animal rights requires empty cages, not larger cages.” KindEnoughAnimalLearningRightsComfortableEatingEmptyEntertainmentCrueltyBe KindAnimal RightsAvoidingCagesHousingExploitsAnimal LiberationAnimal Abuse Author:Tom Regan
“The other animals humans eat, use in science, hunt, trap, and exploit in a variety of ways, have a life of their own that is of importance to them apart from their utility to us. They are not only in the world, they are aware of it. What happens to them matters to them. Each has a life that fares better or worse for the one whose life it is.” WorldWayLifeHumansMatterUseHappensNatureAnimalImportanceVarietyTrapsHuntsExploitsUtilityAnimal AbuseAnimal Testing Author:Tom Regan
“A good deed done to an animal is as meritorious as a good deed done to a human being, while an act of cruelty to an animal is a bad as an act of cruelty to a human being.” HumansDoneHuman BeingsAnimalHuman NatureDeedsCrueltyWelfareVegetarianVeganAnimal RightsPhilanthropyGood DeedsAnimal WelfareAnimal CrueltyAnimal LoveHuman AnimalAnimal WorldHumans And AnimalsPet AnimalsAnimal CompassionAnimal AbuseAnimals In NatureDeeds DoneNature And AnimalsHuman CompassionHuman CrueltyCompassion Towards Animals Author:Muhammad
“To inflict cruelties on defenceless creatures, or condone such acts, is to abuse one of the cardinal tenets of a civilized society - reverence for life.” LifeSocietyCreaturesAbuseCrueltyCivilizedReverenceCardinalsCivilized SocietyReverence For LifeAnimal Abuse Author:Jon Evans
“To give a child animal products is a form of child abuse.” GivingChildrenFormAnimalProductsAbuseVegetarianAnimal RightsChild AbuseVegetarian HealthAnimal AbuseAbused Children Author:Neal Barnard
“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.” PeopleThinkingHumorFunnyBeautifulMotherHumanityAsksAnimalWallMomPhotographCrueltyAttractiveSarcasticVegetarianVeganAnimal RightsHuntingDeerAnimal WelfareAnimal CrueltyWild AnimalVegetarian HealthAnimal WorldAnimal LifeAnimal AbuseAnimal TestingAnimal Rights ActivistsHunting And FishingWildlife AnimalsAnimal InstinctTaxidermyAnimal ExperimentationDeer Hunting Author:Ellen DeGeneres
“The word "veganism" denotes a philosophy and way of living which seeks to exclude - as far as is possible and practical - all forms of exploitation of, and cruelty to, animals for food, clothing or any other purpose; and by extension, promotes the development and use of animal-free alternatives for the benefit of humans, animals and the environment. In dietary terms it denotes the practice of dispensing with all products derived wholly or partly from animals.” WayHumansPhilosophyUseFormPurposeTermAnimalPracticeEnvironmentProductsDevelopmentBenefitsPracticalsCrueltyAlternativesVegetarianVeganClothingsExploitationExtensionsVeganismAnimal CrueltyAnimal AbuseKindness To Animals Author:Donald Watson
“The meat industry spends hundreds of millions of dollars lying to the public about their product. But no amount of false propaganda can sanitize meat. The facts are absolutely clear: Eating meat is bad for human health, catastrophic for the environment, and a living nightmare for animals” HumansFactsLyingAnimalMillionsClearEnvironmentFoodHealthProductsIndustryAmountEatingMusicianDollarsPropagandaMeatNightmareVegetarianVeganHealthy EatingAnimal AbuseEating MeatHuman HealthMeat Industry Author:Chrissie Hynde
“These birds and animals and fish cannot speak, but they can suffer, and our God who created them, knows their sufferings, and will hold him who causes them to suffer unnecessarily to answer for it. It is a sin against their Creator.” KnowsGodSufferingSpeakCausesNatureSinAnswersAnimalLordViolenceCreatingBirdAbuseFishesCreatorCrueltyAnimal AbuseCruel World Author:George Q. Cannon
“There cannot be perfect civilization until Man realizes that the rights of every living creature are as sacred as his own.” MenRealizingPerfectAnimalRightsCivilizationCreaturesSacredAnimal RightsLiving CreaturesAnimal Abuse Author:David Starr Jordan
“We torture and kill two billion sentient living beings every week. 10,000 entire species are wiped out every year because of the actions of one, and we are now facing the sixth mass extinction in cosmological history. If any other organism did this, a biologist would consider them a virus.” IfsYearsHumansTwoActionAnimalWeekMassSpeciesKillingBillionsTortureVeganOrganismsExtinctionWipeVirusesBiologistAnimal AbuseMass Extinction Author:Philip Wollen
“We obey people we don't trust, to buy things we don't need, to impress people we don't like, using money we don't have, for gratifications that don't last, killing animals we don't hate, for pleasures that don't satisfy, dreaming of a life we don't deserve, and praying for an afterlife that doesn't exist, we are a stupid species” PeopleLifeNeedsDreamLastsHatePleasureAnimalHuman NatureStupidTrustPrayingDeserveSpeciesKillingStupiditySillySatisfiedAfterlifeImpressGratificationDon't TrustDon't HateSillinessSelf-satisfactionAnimal AbuseKilling AnimalsYou Can't Fix Stupid Author:Philip Wollen
“In 1968, I became a vegetarian after realizing that animals feel afraid, cold, hungry, and unhappy like we do.” FeelsRealizingAnimalFoodLife PhilosophyColdBecomingHungryUnhappyMeatVegetarianVeganAnimal RightsAnimal CrueltyAnimal AbuseAnimal KingdomPlant Based Diet Author:Cesar Chavez
“A 'civilization' that makes such a ridiculous fuss about alleged 'war crimes' - acts of violence against the actual or potential enemies of one's cause - and tolerates slaughterhouses and vivisection laboratories, and circuses and the fur industry (infliction of pain upon creatures that can never be for or against any cause), does not deserve to live.” LifeDoeWarPainCausesAnimalEnemyViolenceCrimeIndustryCivilizationCreaturesDeserveRidiculousTolerateCircusLaboratoryDeservingFurCivil SocietyTolerationWar CrimesActs Of ViolenceSlaughterhousesAnimal AbuseVivisectionFussyInfliction Author:Savitri Devi
“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.” LifeStillsCharacterPeaceGoalAnimalVirtueRightsViolenceHonestyEvolutionIntegrityHighestEthicsAbuseCrueltyVegetarianVeganAnimal RightsNonviolenceSavagesHumaneVegetarianismVeganismNon ViolencePeace WarAnimal WelfareAnimal CrueltyAnimal LoveVegetarian HealthHuman AnimalAnimal WorldHumans And AnimalsPlants And AnimalsPet AnimalsAnimal LifeAnimal CompassionAnimal EthicsAnimal AbuseCruel WorldVegan HealthAnimal TestingVegetarian DietInspirational AnimalAnimals In NatureViolence And PeaceNature And AnimalsHuman CrueltyViolence And WarFur CoatsHumane SocietyWildlife AnimalsCompassion Towards AnimalsAnimals And SocietyHarming OthersAbused AnimalsRespect LifeHuman Beings And AnimalsViolence And Cruelty Author:Thomas A. Edison
“The thing about animals that speaks to me so much is that my passion for the animals and against animal abuse is based on the knowledge that these creatures which think and feel can't speak for themselves. I feel it is my responsibility to speak for those who can't speak for themselves.” ThinkingFeelsPassionSpeakAnimalResponsibilityCreaturesAbuseMy PassionAnimal Abuse Author:Sam Simon
“Animal abuse is rampant in the U.S., right under everyone's eyes, for the entertainment of the public. The brutal confinement and pain of training methods of wild animals in the circus, the aquatic and theatrical shows, leads to retaliation by the animals. Eventually they find the right time to strike out, and they will.” ShowsEyePainAnimalTrainingAbuseMethodEntertainmentStrikesBrutalRight TimeCircusTheatricalWild AnimalConfinementRetaliationAnimal Abuse Author:Tippi Hedren