Why should man expect his prayer for mercy to be heard by What is above him when he shows no mercy to what is under him?
~Pierre Troubetzkoy
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 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. ~Mark Twain
The human spirit is not dead. It lives on in secret...It has come to believe that compassion, in which all ethics must root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.
~Albert Schweitzer
If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men.
~St. Francis of Assisi
If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.
~Bishop Desmond Tutu
Cowardice asks the question-is it safe?
Expediancy asks the question-is it politic?
Vanity asks the question-is it popular?
But conscience asks the question-is it right?
And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular; but one must take it because it is right.
~Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.
~Albert Schweitzer
Who can believe that there is no soul behind those luminous eyes?
~Theophile Gautier
Anyone who has something to add rather than take away, and lives by that concept. Honest and sincere people with beautiful minds, noble ideas and deep hearts.
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
You must be the change you want to see in the world
~Mahatma Gandhi
Vivisection is a social evil because if it advances human knowledge, it does so at the expense of human character
~George Bernard Shaw
I abhor vivisection with my whole soul. All the scientific discoveries stained with innocent blood I count as of no consequence
~Mahatma Gandhi
Truth goes through three stages:
*First it is ridiculed
*Then it is violently opposed
*Finally it is accepted as self-evident
~Arthur Schopenhauer
Nothing is so common as the wish to be remarkable
~Shakespeare
Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight
~Albert Schweitzer