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Author:Mary Tyler Moore

“The fidelity of a dog is a precious gift demanding no less binding moral responsibilities than the friendship of a human being.”

Source: Man Meets Dog

“...and we have so far improved upon the custom of Adam and Eve, that we generally furnish forth our feasts with a portion of some delicate calf or lamb, whose unspotted innocence entitles them to the happiness of becoming our sustenance.”

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Book:Ordinary Mysteries: The Common Journal of Nathaniel and Sophia Hawthorne, 1842-1843

Source: Ordinary Mysteries: The Common Journal of Nathaniel and Sophia Hawthorne, 1842-1843

“Vivisection is a social evil because if it advances human knowledge, it does so at the expense of human character.”

“Very little of the great cruelty shown by men can really be attributed to cruel instinct. Most of it comes from thoughtlessness or inherited habit. The roots of cruelty, therefore, are not so much strong as widespread. But the time must come when inhumanity protected by custom and thoughtlessness will succumb before humanity championed by thought. Let us work that this time may come.”

“Deliberate cruelty to our defenceless and beautiful little cousins is surely one of the meanest and most detestable vices of which a human being can be guilty.”

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Author:William Ralph Inge

“Man is the only animal that can be bored.”

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Book:Man for Himself: An Inquiry Into the Psychology of Ethics

Source: Man for Himself: An Inquiry Into the Psychology of Ethics

“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 toward our fellow creatures.”

“The indifference, callousness and contempt that so many people exhibit toward animals is evil first because it results in great suffering in animals, and second because it results in an incalculably great impoverishment of the human spirit.”

“'Thou shalt not kill' does not apply to murder of one's own kind only, but to all living beings and this commandment was inscribed in the human breast long before it was proclaimed from Sinai.”

“As often as Herman had witnessed the slaughter of animals and fish, he always had the same thought: in their behavior toward creatures, all men were Nazis.”

“The Utopians feel that slaughtering our fellow creatures gradually destroys the sense of compassion, which is the finest sentiment of which our human nature is capable.”

Source: More: Utopia

“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.”

“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.”

Source: Don't Ever Forget: Collected Views and Reviews

“For millions of years, on average, one species became extinct every century.... We are now heaving more than a thousand different species of animals and plants off the planet every year.”

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Book:Last Chance To See

Source: Last Chance To See

“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.”

“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.”

“I had bought two male chimps from a primate colony in Holland. They lived next to each other in separate cages for several months before I used one as a [heart] donor. When we put him to sleep in his cage in preparation for the operation, he chattered and cried incessantly. We attached no significance to this, but it must have made a great impression on his companion, for when we removed the body to the operating room, the other chimp wept bitterly and was inconsolable for days. The incident made a deep impression on me. I vowed never again to experiment with such sensitive creatures.”

“Cruelty is one fashion statement we can all do without.”

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Author:Rue McClanahan

“Poor animals! How jealously they guard their pathetic bodies...that which to us is merely an evening's meal, but to them is life itself.”

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Author:T. Casey Brennan

“The animals you eat are not those who devour others; you do not eat the carnivorous beasts, you take them as your pattern. You only hunger for the sweet and gentle creatures which harm no one, which follow you, serve you, and are devoured by you as the reward of their service.”

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Book:Emile

Source: Emile

“I abhor vivisection with my whole soul. All the scientific discoveries stained with innocent blood I count as of no consequence.”

Source: All Men Are Brothers

“A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him.”

Source: A Treasury of Albert Schweitzer

“Many years ago, I was in a Broadway show and I had to wear a fox fur around my shoulders. One day my hand touched one of the fox's legs. It seemed to be in two pieces. Then it dawned on me.... her leg had probally been snapped in two by the steel trap that had caught it.”

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Author:Bea Arthur

“The brute animals have all the same sensations of pain as human beings, and consequently endure as much pain when their body is hurt; but in their case the cruelty of torment is greater, because they have no mind to bear them up against their sufferings, and no hope to look forward to when enduring the last extreme pain.”

“I was so moved by the intelligence,sense of fun and personalities of the animals I worked with on Babe that by the end of the film I was a vegetarian.”

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Author:James Cromwell

“Killing an animal to make a coat is sin. It wasn't meant to be, and we have no right to do it.”

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Author:Doris Day

“I love all the shows that encourage people to love, appreciate and help animals. There are more programs about animals than ever, and that pleases me.”

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Author:Doris Day

“I think everything in my life has led to my animal welfare work.”

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Author:Doris Day

“I had been involved in animal welfare groups, but DDAL presented an opportunity to actually create and pass legislation aimed at issues which really matter to so many people. From local spaying and neutering ordinances, to legislation against puppy mills, to standards to prevent animals from being tested for the sake of a new cosmetic, we could - and did - make a difference.”

“For every dollar spent on spaying and neutering now, $17 is saved and can be used for other community projects. We work with the animals and the people who love them.”

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Author:Doris Day

“You have to love animals for what they are or leave them alone. The best thing you can do if you love them is leave them alone and see that other people do too.”

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Author:Pat Derby

“I realized that Eastern thought had somewhat more compassion for all living things. Man was a form of life that in another reincarnation might possibly be a horsefly or a bird of paradise or a deer. So a man of such a faith, looking at animals, might be looking at old friends or ancestors. In the East the wilderness has no evil connotation; it is thought of as an expression of the unity and harmony of the universe.”

“It's sad. That's a living creature. We don't have the right to take their life away for fashion.”

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Author:Carmen Electra

“People get offended by animal rights campaigns. It's ludicrous. It's not as bad as mass animal death in a factory.”

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Author:Richard Gere

“It's really important to me to show the interconnectedness of things. I always try to illustrate how environmentalism, humanitarianism, animal rights - all those things - are one and the same.”

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Author:Daryl Hannah

“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.”

“Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.”

“During my medical education at the University of Basle I found vivisection horrible, barbarous and above all unnecessary”

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Author:Carl Jung

“I would look at a dog and when our eyes met, I realized that the dog and all creatures are my family. They're like you and me.”

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Author:Ziggy Marley

“The medical argument for animal testing doesn't stand up. Even if it did, I don't think we should kill other species. We think we're so much better; I'm not sure we are. I tell people, We've beaten into submission every animal on the face of the Earth, so we are the clear winners of whatever battle is going on between the species. Couldn't we be generous? I really do think it's time to get nice. No need to keep beating up on them. I think we've got to show that we're kind.”

“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.”

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Author:Ali MacGraw

“The reasons for legal intervention in favour of children apply not less strongly to the case of those unfortunate slaves and victims of the most brutal part of mankind - the lower animals.”

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Book:Principles of Political Economy (Abridged): With Some of Their Applications to Social Philosophy

Source: Principles of Political Economy (Abridged): With Some of Their Applications to Social Philosophy

“There are viable (and usually better) alternatives to the use of animals for food, sport, clothing, & experimentation. I beg you to discontinue any actions that might cause or condone animal torture, abuse, or destruction.”

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Author:Moby

“If you don't want to be beaten, imprisoned, mutilated, killed ot tortured, then you shouldn't condone such behaviour towards anyone, be they human or not.”

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Author:Moby

“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.”

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Author:Anita Roddick

“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.”

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Author:Charlotte Ross

“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.”

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Author:Chief Seattle

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