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“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.”

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Author: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.”

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Author:Alicia Silverstone

“We don't live the lives of Eskimos. We don't need to kill animals for fashion.”

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Author:Charlize Theron

“It may be suggested by some books that it is not a sin to kill an animal, but it is written in our own hearts - more clearly than in any book - that we should take pity on animals in the same way as we do on humans.”

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Author:Leo Tolstoy

“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.”

“I became very critical of zoos and circuses and keeping animals in captivity. I wish it was against the law.”

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Author:Christopher Walken

“The Animals of the planet are in desperate peril and they are fully aware of this. No less than human beings are doing in all parts of the world, they are seeking sanctuary.”

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Author:Alice Walker

“This is what you shall do: Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people.”

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Author:Walt Whitman

“As soon as we lose the moral basis, we cease to be religious. There is no such thing as religion over-riding morality. Man, for instance, cannot be untruthful, cruel or incontinent and claim to have God on his side.”

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Book:All Men Are Brothers

Source: All Men Are Brothers

“Shame on such a morality that is worthy of pariahs, and that fails to recognize the eternal essence that exists in every living thing, and shines forth with inscrutable significance from all eyes that see the sun!”

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Author:Arthur Schopenhauer

“Our human responsibility for animal rights, plant rights, and the rights of the earth to its health and wholeness is self-evident. Whatever our beliefs about the hereafter we are the temporary custodians of the here-and-now, and if we neglect our obligations or abuse our powers then we abrogate any rights to a further share in this planet's delights.”

“Not to hurt our humble brethren is our first duty to them, but to stop there is not enough. We have a higher mission - to be of service to them whenever they require it.”

“Ethics is in its unqualified form extended responsibility with regard to everything that has life.”

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Author:Albert Schweitzer

“A woman gains status when she refuses to see anything killed to be put on her back. Then she’s truly beautiful.”

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Author:Doris Day

“We need an extreme movement because what is happening to animals is so extreme. Some misinformed people claim that animal rights activists are terrorists, but these people are simply ignorant of who the real terrorists are - the companies and industries that torture literally billions of animals each year.”

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Author:River Phoenix

“A human being has been given an intellect to make choices, and we know there are other food sources that do not require the killing of a creature that would protest being killed.”

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Author:Mary Tyler Moore

“To those people who say, 'My father is alive because of animal experimentation,' I say, 'Yeah, well, good for you. This dog died so your father could live.' Sorry, but I am just not behind that kind of trade-off.”

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Author:Bill Maher

“What we must do is start viewing every cow, pig, chicken, monkey, rabbit, mouse, and pigeon as our family members.”

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Author:Gary Yourofsky

“No one in the world needs a mink coat but a mink.”

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Author:Murray Banks

“Dogs are getting bigger, according to a leading dog manufacturer.”

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Book:Rome wasn't burned in a day: the mischief of language

Source: Rome wasn't burned in a day: the mischief of language

“Slaughter and justice cannot dwell together.”

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Author:Isaac Bashevis Singer

“Violence begins with the fork.”

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Author:Mahatma Gandhi

“We have no ethical obligation to preserve the different breeds of livestock produced through selective breeding One generation and out. We have no problems with the extinction of domestic animals. They are creations of human selective breeding.”

“The definition of obscenity on the newsstands should be extended to many hunting magazines.”

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Author:Wayne Pacelle

“If you want to know where you would have stood on slavery before the Civil War, don’t look at where you stand on slavery today. Look at where you stand on animal rights.”

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Author:Paul Watson

“As for myself, I do not believe in loggers, I believe in trees. I do not believe in fishermen, I believe in fish. I do not believe in miners, I believe in the rocks beneath my feet. I do not believe in pie in the sky spirituality, I believe in rainbows, rivers, mountains, and moss. I do not believe in environmentalists, I believe in the environment. I am a proud traitor to my species in alliance with my mother the Earth in opposition to those who would destroy her, those parasites who believe the Earth is here to serve human interests.”

“Humans have grown like a cancer. We're the biggest blight on the face of the earth.”

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Author:Ingrid Newkirk

“I am not a morose person, but I would rather not be here. I don't have any reverence for life, only for the entities themselves. I would rather see a blank space where I am. This will sound like fruitcake stuff again but at least I wouldn't be harming anything.”

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Author:Ingrid Newkirk

“Six million Jews died in concentration camps, but six billion broiler chickens will die this year in slaughter houses.”

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Author:Ingrid Newkirk

“Even if animal tests produced a cure for AIDS, we'd be against it.”

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Author:Ingrid Newkirk

“If my father had a heart attack it would give me no solace at all to know his treatment was first tried on a dog.”

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Author:Ingrid Newkirk

“Eating meat is primitive, barbaric, and arrogant.”

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Author:Ingrid Newkirk

“We’re looking for good lawsuits that will establish the interests of animals as a legitimate area of concern in law.”

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Author:Ingrid Newkirk

“I find that as I get older I seem to become more of a Luddite... And hearing animal experimenters describe me as a Luddite--which used to think I was not. And now I think Ned Lud had the right idea and we should have stopped all the machinery way back when, and learned to live simple lives.”

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Author:Ingrid Newkirk

“Perhaps the mere idea of receiving a nasty missive will allow animal researchers to empathize with their victims for the first time in their lousy careers. I find it small wonder that the laboratories aren't all burning to the ground. If I had more guts, I'd light a match.”

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Author:Ingrid Newkirk

“Would I rather the research lab that tests animals is reduced to a bunch of cinders? Yes.”

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Author:Ingrid Newkirk

“A burning building doesnt help melt peoples hearts, but times change and tactics, Im sure, have to change with them. If you choose to carry out ALF-style actions, I ask you to please not say more than you need to, to think carefully who you trust, to learn all you can about how to behave if arrested, and so to try to live to fight another day.”

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Author:Ingrid Newkirk

“The point at which society moves towards our views is a point where we are significantly closer to the vegan world that we are all working toward.”

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Author:Bruce Friedrich

“To be 'for animals' is not to be 'against humanity.' To require others to treat animals justly, as their rights require, is not to ask for anything more nor less in their case than in the case of any human to whom just treatment is due. The animal rights movement is a part of, not opposed to, the human rights movement. Attempts to dismiss it as anti human are mere rhetoric.”

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Book:The Case for Animal Rights

Source: The Case for Animal Rights

“In a perfect world, we would not keep animals for our benefit, including pets.”

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Author:Tom Regan

“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.”

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Author:Tom Regan

“It is a man's sympathy with all creatures that first makes him truly a man.”

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Author:Albert Schweitzer

“I am sometimes asked, 'Why do you spend so much of your time and money talking about kindness to animals when there is so much cruelty to men?' I answer: 'I am working at the roots.'”

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Book:Autobiographical Sketches and Personal Recollections

Source: Autobiographical Sketches and Personal Recollections

“Humanity is the cancer of nature.”

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Author:David Foreman

“I don't understand why asking people to eat a well-balanced vegetarian diet is considered drastic, while it is medically conservative to cut people open and put them on cholesterol lowering drugs for the rest of their lives.”

“God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages.”

“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.”

“To become vegetarian is to step into the stream which leads to nirvana.”

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Author:Gautama Buddha

“May all that have life be delivered from suffering.”

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Author:Gautama Buddha

“The eating of meat extinguishes the seed of Great Kindness.”

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Author:Gautama Buddha

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