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“When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.”

Source: My First Summer in the Sierra: Illustrated Edition

“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.”

“Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.”

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Book:The spectator

Source: The spectator

“Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals.”

Source: Animal Farm and 1984

“Because the heart beats under a covering of hair, of fur, feathers, or wings, it is, for that reason, to be of no account?”

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Author:Jean Paul

“Cows are amongst the gentlest of breathing creatures; none show more passionate tenderness to their young when deprived of them; and, in short, I am not ashamed to profess a deep love for these quiet creatures.”

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Book:Delphi Complete Works of Thomas De Quincey (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Thomas De Quincey (Illustrated)

“Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.”

“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.”

Source: A Selection of Writings of and about Albert Schweitzer

“A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help.”

Source: A Treasury of Albert Schweitzer

“The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.”

“When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.”

“There will be no justice as long as man will stand with a knife or with a gun and destroy those who are weaker than he is.”

“Those who wish to pet and baby wild animals 'love' them. But those who respect their natures and wish to let them live normal lives, love them more.”

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Book:Circle of the Seasons: The Journal of a Naturalist's Year

Source: Circle of the Seasons: The Journal of a Naturalist's Year

“No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.”

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Book:Aesop's fables

Source: Aesop's fables

“It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.”

Source: Mark Twain’s Book of Animals

“The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.”

“I'm not into animal rights. I'm only into animal welfare and health. I've been with the Morris Animal Foundation since the '70s. We're a health organization. We fund campaign health studies for dogs, cats, lizards and wildlife. I've worked with the L.A. Zoo for about the same length of time. I get my animal fixes!”

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Author:Betty White

“There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face.”

“I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men.”

“The animals of the planet are in desperate peril... Without free animal life I believe we will lose the spiritual equivalent of oxygen.”

Source: The Alice Walker Collection: Non-Fiction

“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 smugness with which man could do with other species as he pleased exemplified the most extreme racist theories, the principle that might is right.”

“We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.”

“I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being.”

“What I think about vivisection is that if people admit that they have the right to take or endanger the life of living beings for the benefit of many, there will be no limit to their cruelty.”

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Author:Leo Tolstoy

“Atrocities are not less atrocities when they occur in laboratories and are called medical research.”

“We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because they have no words.”

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Book:Black Beauty

Source: Black Beauty

“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.”

Source: 101 Facts of life

“I believe that the best way to create good living conditions for any animal, whether it's a captive animal living in a zoo, a farm animal or a pet, is to base animal welfare programs on the core emotion systems in the brain. My theory is that the environment animals live in should activate their positive emotions as much as possible, and not activate their negative emotions any more than necessary. If we get the animal's emotions rights, we will have fewer problem behaviors... All animals and people have the same core emotion systems in the brain.”

Source: Animals Make Us Human: Creating the Best Life for Animals

“I have been studying the traits and dispositions of the "lower animals" (so called) and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions of man. I find the result humiliating to me.”

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Book:What Is Man? and Other Philosophical Writings

Source: What Is Man? and Other Philosophical Writings

“An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language.”

Source: I and Thou

“The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creatures that cannot.”

Source: Mark Twain’s Book of Animals

“It’s admirable, what you do, what she does, but to me animal-welfare people are a bit like Christians of a certain kind. Everyone is so cheerful and well-intentioned that after a while you itch to go off and do some raping and pillaging. Or to kick a cat.”

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Book:Disgrâce

Source: Disgrâce

“The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man.”

Source: Darwin on Evolution: Words of Wisdom from the Father of Evolution

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

Source: Jean-Christophe: The market-place

“Compassion for animals is intimately associated with goodness of character, and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to animals cannot be a good man.”

Source: 101 Facts of life

“universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.”

Source: 101 Facts of life

“A robin redbreast in a cage Puts all heaven in a rage.”

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Author:William Blake

“Animals can communicate quite well. And they do. And generally speaking, they are ignored”

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Book:Alice Walker Banned

Source: Alice Walker Banned

“Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.”

“Man is the only creature that consumes without producing”

“One day the absurdity of the almost universal human belief in the slavery of other animals will be palpable. We shall then have discovered our souls and become worthier of sharing this planet with them.”

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Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Humanity's true moral test, its fundamental test…consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals.”

“Animals share with us the privilege of having a soul.”

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Author:Pythagoras

“It should not be believed that all beings exist for the sake of the existence of man. On the contrary, all the other beings too have been intended for their own sakes and not for the sake of anything else.”

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Book:The Guide of the Perplexed

Source: The Guide of the Perplexed

“Cruelty must be whitewashed by a moral excuse, and pretense of reluctance.”

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Author:George Bernard Shaw

“Cruelty to animals is one of the most significant vices of a low and ignoble people. Wherever one notices them, they constitute a sign of ignorance and brutality which cannot be painted over even by all the evidence of wealth and luxury.”

“True benevolence or compassion, extends itself through the whole of existence and sympathizes with the distress of every creature capable of sensation.”

Source: Interesting anecdotes, memoirs, allegories, essays, and poetical fragments; tending to amuse the fancy, and inculcate morality

“Whenever you observe an animal closely, you feel as if a human being sitting inside were making fun of you.”

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Author:Elias Canetti

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