Religious and spiritual convictions, ethical concerns over the right to kill animals when alternatives exist, and just plain compassion for other living beings compels many to pass on meat~ Frankie Avalon Wolfe
Because one species is more clever than another, does it give it the right to imprison or torture the less clever species? Does one exceptionally clever individual have a right to exploit the less clever individuals of his own species? To say that he does is to say with the Fascists that the strong have a right to abuse and exploit the weak - might is right, and the strong and ruthless shall inherit the earth~Richard Ryder
When a man wantonly destroys one of the works of man, we call him a vandal.
When he wantonly destroys one of the works of God, we call him a sportsman~Joseph Wood Krutch
True benevolence or compassion extends itself through the whole of existence and sympathises with the distress of every creature capable of sensation ~Joseph Addison 1662-1719
If [man] is not to stifle his human feelings, he must practise kindness towards animals, for he who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals~Immanuel Kant
I hope to make people realize how totally helpless animals are, how dependent on us, trusting as a child must that we will be kind and take care of their needs ...[They] are an obligation put on us, a responsibility we have no right to neglect, nor to violate by cruelty ~James Herriot
I do feel that spiritual progress does demand at some stage that we should cease to kill our fellow creatures for the satisfaction of our bodily wants~ Gandhi
We have enslaved the rest of animal creation and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form ~ William Ralph Inge
Killing is a denial of love. To kill or to eat what another has killed is to rejoice in cruelty. And cruelty hardens our hearts and blinds our vision, and we are unable to see that they whom we kill are our fellow brothers and sisters in the One Family of Creation ~ G.L. Rudd
Cruelty to animals is as if man did not love God ~ Cardinal John H. Newman
The steam of meat darkens the light of the spirit ~ St. Basil (AD 320 - 79)
We pray on Sundays that we may have light, to guide our footsteps on the path we tread. We are sick of war, we don't want to fight, and yet we gorge ourselves upon the dead ~ George Bernard Shaw
Eating of meat extinguishes the seed of great compassion ~ Mahaparinirvana
The animals you eat are not those who devour others; you do not eat
the carnivorous beasts, you take them as your pattern. You only hunger after
sweet and gentle creatures who harm no one, which follow you, serve you, and are
devoured by you as the reward of their service ~John Jacques Rousseau
Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances for survival on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet ~ Albert Einstein
Even though Genesis says that God gave man dominion over all animals, we can also construe it to mean that He merely entrusted them to man's care. Man was not the planet's master, merely its administrator, and therefore eventually responsible for his administration~Milan Kundera
I have developed a deep respect for animals. I consider them fellow living creatures with certain rights that should not be allowed to be violated any more than those of humans ~ Jimmy Stewart
The quiet conscience is an invention of the devil~Dr Albert Schweitzer
While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered beasts,
how can we expect any ideal conditions on this earth?-George Bernard Shaw
I am in favour of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being ~ Abraham Lincoln
For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seed of murder and pain cannot reap joy and love ~ Pythagoras
Until he extends his circle of compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace ~ Albert Schweitzer
The greatness of a nation and it’s moral progress can be judged the way it’s animals are treated ~ Ghandi
One of the remarks made by farmers at their public discussion of these problems suggest that they are rapidly ceasing to think of animals as sentient beings at all. If you handle vast numbers of creatures which are in any case going to die soon, it is, I suppose, easy to get into a state of mind in which they seem to be merely machines~Kingsley Martin
Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom
the torture and death of his fellow-creatures is amusing in itself~James Anthony Froude
Animals of the word exist for their own reasons. They were not made for
humans any more than blacks were made for whites or women for men~Alice Walker
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