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“An animal experiment cannot be justifiable unless the experiment is so important that the use of a brain-damaged human would be justifiable.”

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Author:Peter Singer

“If we are concerned about the exploitation of human workers in countries with low standards of worker protection, we should also be concerned about the treatment of even more defenceless non-human animals.”

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Author:Peter Singer

“You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.”

“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.”

“It is my view that the vegetarian manner of living, by its purely physical effect on the human temperament, would most beneficially influence the lot of mankind.”

Source: The Ultimate Quotable Einstein

“I think I could turn and live with the animals, they are so placid and self contained; I stand and look at them long and long. They do not sweat and whine about their condition; They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins; They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God; Not one is dissatisfied-not one is demented with the mania of owning things; Not one kneels to another, nor his kind that lived thousands of years ago; Not one is responsible or industrious over the whole earth.”

“All his life he tried to be a good person. Many times, however, he failed. For after all, he was only human. He wasn't a dog.”

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Author:Charles M. Schulz

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

“I am not interested to know whether vivisection produces results that are profitable to the human race or doesn't...The pain which it inflicts upon unconsenting animals is the basis of my enmity toward it, and it is to me sufficient justification of the enmity without looking further.”

“To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being.”

Source: My Experiments with Truth: An Autobiography of Mahatma Gandhi

“The human animal is adapted to, and apparently can thrive on, an extraordinary range of different diets, but the Western diet, however you define it, does not seem to be one of them.”

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Book:In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto

Source: In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto

“Religion is still useful among the herd - that it helps their orderly conduct as nothing else could. The crude human animal is in-eradicably superstitious, and there is every biological reason why they should be. Take away his Christian god and saints, and he will worship something else.”

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Author:H. P. Lovecraft

“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

“but ignorance is a kind of insanity in the human animal. People who delight in torturing defenseless children or tiny creatures are in reality insane. The terrible thing is that people who are madmen in private may wear a totally bland and innocent expression in public.”

Source: Something Like An Autobiography

“Sometimes I think the human animal doesn't really need food or water to survive, only gossip.”

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Book:A Fraction of the Whole

Source: A Fraction of the Whole

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

Source: I and Thou

“Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.”

Book:Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century

Source: Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century

“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

“The human animal is a beast that dies but the fact that he’s dying don’t give him pity for others.”

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Book:The Theatre of Tennessee Williams

Source: The Theatre of Tennessee Williams

“...In little more than a single century from 1820 to 19450, no less than fifty-nine million human animals were killed in inter-group clashes of one sort or another.... We describe these killings as men behaving "like animals," but if we could find a wild animal that showed signs of acting this way, it would be more precise to describe it as behaving like men.”

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Author:Desmond Morris

“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

“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.”

“Until 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 can be no double standard. We cannot have peace among men whose hearts find delight in killing any living creature. By every act that glorifies or even tolerates such moronic delight in killing, we set back the progress of humanity.”

“universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.”

Source: 101 Facts of life

“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.

“Truly man is the king of beasts, for his brutality exceeds them. We live by the death of others. We are burial places.”

“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

“The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. I hold that the more helpless a creature the more entitled it is to protection by man from the cruelty of humankind.”

“The human animal dances wildest on the edge of the grave.”

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Author:Rita Mae Brown

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contained, I stand and look at them long and long.”

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Author:Walt Whitman

“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.”

“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.”

“There's something in us that is very much attracted to madness. Everyone who looks off the edge of a tall building has felt at least a faint, morbid urge to jump. And anyone who has ever put a loaded pistol up to his head... All right, my point is this: even the most well-adjusted person is holding onto his or her sanity by a greased rope. I really believe that. The rationality circuits are shoddily built into the human animal.”

“But for the sake of some little mouthful of flesh we deprive a soul of the sun and light, and of that proportion of life and time it had been born into the world to enjoy.”

Source: Plutarch's essays and miscellanies, comprising all the works collected under the title of

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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

“The human animal is a beast that eventually has to die. If he's got money, he buys and he buys and he buys. The reason he buys everything he can is because of some crazy hope that one of the things he buys will be life everlasting.”

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Author:Burl Ives

“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.”

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

“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

“Sometimes I think that the only effective and productive method of destroying speciesism would be for each uncaring human to be forced to live the life of a cow on a feedlot, or a monkey in a laboratory, or an elephant in the circus, or a bull in a rodeo, or a mink on a fur farm. Then people would be awakened from their soporific states and finally understand the horrors that are inflicted on the animal kingdom by the vilest species to ever roam this planet: the human animal!”

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