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“If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat.”

Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations

“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.”

“Animals don't lie. Animals don't criticize. If animals have moody days, they handle them better than humans do.”

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Book:If You Ask Me: (And of Course You Won't)

Source: If You Ask Me: (And of Course You Won't)

“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.”

“A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.”

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Author:Albert Einstein

“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

“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

“Life is as dear to a mute creature as it is to man. Just as one wants happiness and fears pain, just as one wants to live and not die, so do other creatures.”

“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

“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

“Humans — who enslave, castrate, experiment on, and fillet other animals — have had an understandable penchant for pretending animals do not feel pain. A sharp distinction between humans and 'animals' is essential if we are to bend them to our will, make them work for us, wear them, eat them — without any disquieting tinges of guilt or regret. It is unseemly of us, who often behave so unfeelingly toward other animals, to contend that only humans can suffer. The behavior of other animals renders such pretensions specious. They are just too much like us.”

“It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions. Heaven is by favor; if it were by merit your dog would go in and you would stay out. Of all the creatures ever made he (man) is the most detestable. Of the entire brood, he is the only one...that possesses malice. He is the only creature that inflicts pain for sport, knowing it to be pain. 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 creature that cannot.”

“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

“You are the Protector of the Small. You see real people in the humans and animals overlooked by your peers. There will always be work for you.”

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Author:Tamora Pierce

“Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.”

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Author:Samuel Butler

“The difference between animals and humans is that animals change themselves for the environment, but humans change the environment for themselves.”

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Author:Ayn Rand

“All the human and animal manure which the world wastes, if returned to the land, instead of being thrown into the sea, would suffice to nourish the world.”

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Book:Hugo's Works

Source: Hugo's Works

“universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.”

Source: 101 Facts of life

“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.

“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.”

“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.”

“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

“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.”

“I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.”

“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.”

“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.”

“American scientific companies are cross-breeding humans and animals and coming up with mice with fully functioning human brains.”

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Author:Christine O'Donnell

“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.”

“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 love I have for our wildlife is so great, it fills my world. After Black Saturday I saw a world that was black and white, void of animals and humans. What I missed most was the love and life of living with the wildlife. Each day I think of the ones gone and there is a deep hole in my heart. I did not miss the humans or the sounds they make, I missed the animals the sounds of peace and love that came from them. Such beauty and harmony with nature, only animals can be that smart.”

“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

“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

“Darwin's greatest achievement was to show that the appearance of purpose, planning, teleology (design), and intentionality in the origin and development of human and animal species was entirely an illusion. The illusion could be explained by evolutionary processes that contained no such purpose at all. But the spread of ideas through imitation required the whole apparatus of human consciousness and intentionality”

“Being a thoughtful vegan makes our time on this Earth more peaceful and joyous, because you get to have a hand in promoting and increasing the happiness, good health and well-being of others -- both animal and human -- rather than being an instrument of their suffering and death.”

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Author:Russell Simmons

“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.”

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