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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.
Category: Animal Rights Author: Mark Twain
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Evolutionary biology is now uttering and seeking those forces that link us with all those that have being. If we can discover the meaning in the trilling of a frog, perhaps we may understand why it is for us not merely noise but a song of poetry and emotion.
Category: Animal Rights Author: Adrian Forsyth
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Vivisection is a social evil because if it advances human knowledge, it does so at the expense of human character.
Category: Animal Rights Author: George Bernard Shaw
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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.
Category: Animal Rights Author: Mark Twain
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The basis of all animal rights should be the Golden Rule: we should treat them as we would wish them to treat us, were any other species in our dominant position.
Category: Animal Rights Author: Christine Stevens
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When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when the tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.
Category: Animal Rights Author: George Bernard Shaw
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The animal shall not be measured by man. In a world older and more complete than ours, they move finished and complete, gifted with extension of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear. They are not brethren; they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendor and travail of the earth.
Category: Animal Rights Author: Henry Beston
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I abhor vivisection with my whole soul. All the scientific discoveries stained with innocent blood I count as of no consequence.
Category: Animal Rights Author: Mahatma Gandhi
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I abhor vivisection. It should at least be curbed. Better, it should be abolished. I know of no achievement through vivisection, no scientific discovery, that could not have been obtained without such barbarism and cruelty. The whole thing is evil.
Category: Animal Rights Author: Charles Mayo
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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.
Category: Animal Rights Author: Christian Barnard
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Terms like that, "Humane Society," are devised with people like me in mind, who don't care to dwell on what happens to the innocent.
Category: Animal Rights Author: Barbara Kingsolver
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I think animal testing is a terrible idea; they get all nervous and give the wrong answers.
Category: Animal Rights Author: Author Unknown
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Teaching a child not to step on a caterpillar is as valuable to the child as it is to the caterpillar.
Category: Animal Rights Author: Bradley Millar
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The human spirit is not dead. It lives on in secret.... It has come to believe that compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.
Category: Animal Rights Author: Albert Schweitzer
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Hunt each other - leave the animals alone.
Category: Animal Rights Source: seen on a shirt
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People must have renounced, it seems to me, all natural intelligence to dare to advance that animals are but animated machines.... It appears to me, besides, that [such people] can never have observed with attention the character of animals, not to have distinguished among them the different voices of need, of suffering, of joy, of pain, of love, of anger, and of all their affections. It would be very strange that they should express so well what they could not feel.
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Zoos are becoming facsimiles - or perhaps caricatures - of how animals once were in their natural habitat. If the right policies toward nature were pursued, we would need no zoos at all.
Category: Animal Rights Author: Michael Fox
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The sort of man who likes to spend his time watching a cage of monkeys chase one another, or a lion gnaw its tail, or a lizard catch flies, is precisely the sort of man whose mental weakness should be combatted at the public expense, and not fostered.
Category: Animal Rights Author: H L Mencken
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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.
Category: Animal Rights Author: Schopenhauer
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Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.
Category: Animal Rights Author: Thomas A Edison
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