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“We cannot have peace among men whose hearts find delight in killing any living creature.”

Source: The house of life: Rachel Carson at work

“Unless we have courage to recognize cruelty for what it is - whether its victim is human or animal - we cannot expect things to be much better in the world.”

“There is no fundamental difference between man and the higher mammals in their mental faculties...The difference in mind between man and the higher animals, great as it is, certainly is one of degree and not of kind.”

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Author:Charles Darwin

“I believe animals should be respected as citizens of this earth. They should have the right to their own freedom, their own families, and their own life.”

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Author:John Feldmann

“Roving dogs do not indicate the civilisation or compassion of the society. They betray on the country the ignorance and lethargy of its members.”

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Book:Young India, 1924-1926

Source: Young India, 1924-1926

“As custodians of the planet it is our responsibility to deal with all species with kindness, love, and compassion. That these animals suffer through human cruelty is beyond understanding. Please help to stop this madness.”

“Male and female have the power to fuse into one solid, both because both are nourished in both and also because soul is the same thing in all living creatures, although the body of each is different.”

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Author:Hippocrates

“Most people have forgotten how to live with living creatures, with living systems and that, in turn, is the reason why man, whenever he comes into contact with nature, threatens to kill the natural system in which and from which he live.”

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Author:Konrad Lorenz

“One of the most dangerous things that can happen to a child is to kill or torture an animal and get away with it.”

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Author:Margaret Mead

“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. All education should be directed toward the refinement of the individual's sensibilities in relation not only to one's fellow humans everywhere, but to all things whatsoever.”

“Which of us has not been stunned by the beauty of an animal's skin or its flexibility in motion?”

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Author:Marianne Moore

“They too, are created by the same loving hand of God which Created us...It is our duty to Protect Them and to promote their well-being.”

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Author:Mother Teresa

“In a few generations more, there will probably be no room at all allowed for animals on the earth: no need of them, no toleration of them. An immense agony will have then ceased, but with it there will also have passed away the last smile of the world's youth.”

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Book:Critical Studies

Source: Critical Studies

“Nature teaches beasts to know their friends.”

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Author:William Shakespeare

“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?”

“If only we can overcome cruelty, to human and animal, with love and compassion we shall stand at the threshold of a new era in human moral and spiritual evolution - and realize, at last, our most unique quality: humanity.”

“The animal liberation movement is saying that where animals and humans have similar interests - we might take the interest in avoiding physical pain as an example, for it is an interest that humans clearly share with other animals - those interests are to be counted equally, with no automatic discount just because one of the beings is not human.”

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Author:Peter Singer

“Living with animals can be a wonderful experience, especially if we choose to learn the valuable lessons animals teach through their natural enthusiasm, grace, resourcefulness, affection and forgiveness.”

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Book:Dr. Pitcairn's Complete Guide to Natural Health for Dogs & Cats

Source: Dr. Pitcairn's Complete Guide to Natural Health for Dogs & Cats

“I could not have slept tonight if I had left that helpless little creature to perish on the ground.”

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Author:Abraham Lincoln

“Love of animals is a universal impulse, a common ground on which all of us may meet. By loving and understanding animals, perhaps we humans shall come to understand each other.”

“Man's highest duty is to protect animals from cruelty.”

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Author:Emile Zola

“A day will come in which men will look upon an animal's murder the same way they look today upon a man's murder.”

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Author:Leonardo da Vinci

“When I was twelve, I went hunting with my father and we shot a bird. He was laying there and something struck me. Why do we call this fun to kill this creature [who] was as happy as I was when I woke up this morning.”

“Murderers very often start out by killing and torturing animals as kids.”

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Author:Robert Ressler

“The awful wrongs and sufferings forced upon the innocent, helpless, faithful animal race form the blackest chapter in the whole world's history.”

“The more I see of men, the better I like my dog.”

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Author:Frederick The Great

“Killing animals for sport, for pleasure, for adventure, and for hides and furs is a phenomena which is at once disgusting and distressing. There is no justification in indulging is such acts of brutality.”

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Author:Dalai Lama

“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.”

“If a man aspires towards a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from injury to animals.”

“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.”

“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. Extract from 'Memories of childhood and youth.'”

“Ever occur to you why some of us can be this much concerned with animals' suffering? Because government is not. Why not? Animals don't vote.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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

“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 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.”

“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

“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

“Even people who are aware that the traditional family farm has been taken over by big business interests, and that some questionable experiments go on in laboratories, cling to a vague belief that conditions cannot be too bad, or else the government or the animal welfare societies would have done something about it.”

Source: Animal liberation: a new ethics for our treatment of animals

“Whatever the reason, for most of the present century, the literature and publicity of the old established [animal welfare] groups made a significant contribution to the prevailing attitude that dogs and cats and wild animals need protection, but other animals do not. Thus people came to think of "animal welfare" as something for kindly ladies who are dotty about cats, and not as a cause founded on basic principles of justice and morality.”

“Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.”

“It is vitally important that we can continue to say, with absolute conviction, that organic farming delivers the highest quality, best-tasting food, produced without artificial chemicals or genetic modification, and with respect for animal welfare and the environment, while helping to maintain the landscape and rural communities.”

“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.”

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

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Author:Murray Banks

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