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To a man whose mind is free there is something even more intolerable in the sufferings of animals than in the sufferings of man. For with the latter it is at least admitted that suffering is evil and that the man who causes it is a criminal. But thousands of animals are uselessly butchered every day without a shadow of remorse. If any man were to refer to it, he would be thought ridiculous. And that is the unpardonable crime.
Category: Animal Rights Author: Romain Rolland
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When it comes to having a central nervous system, and the ability to feel pain, hunger, and thirst, a rat is a pig is a dog is a boy.
Category: Animal Rights Author: Ingrid Newkirk
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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.
Category: Animal Rights Author: Albert Schweitzer
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Deer hunting would be fine sport, if only the deer had guns.
Category: Animal Rights Author: William S Gilbert
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There is no fundamental difference between man and the higher mammals in their mental faculties.... The difference in mind between man and the higher animals, great as it is, certainly is one of degree and not of kind. The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man. We have seen that the senses and intuitions, the various emotions and faculties, such as love, memory, attention and curiosity, imitation, reason, etc., of which man boasts, may be found in an incipient, or even sometimes a well-developed condition, in the lower animals.
Category: Animal Rights Author: Charles Darwin
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Because the heart beats under a covering of hair, of fur, feathers, or wings, it is, for that reason, to be of no account?
Category: Animal Rights Author: Jean Paul Richter
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God made all the creatures and gave them our love and our fear,
To give sign, we and they are His children, one family here.
Category: Animal Rights Author: Robert Browning
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Deliberate cruelty to our defenceless and beautiful little cousins is surely one of the meanest and most detestable vices of which a human being can be guilty.
Category: Animal Rights Author: William Ralph Inge
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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. All education should be directed toward the refinement of the individual's sensibilities in relation not only to one's fellow humans everywhere, but to all things whatsoever. In the societies of the Western world compassionate intelligence is encouraged in girls - in boys it is tabu. The tabu on tenderness in which boys are conditioned, the emphasis on "manliness," "machoism," plays havoc with the male's capacity for compassionate intelligence. Tenderness is considered to be feminine, and that is sufficient to remove it from the repertoire of masculine behavior. Indeed, things have reached such a pass in the Western world that many men seem to have lost all understanding of its meaning. The masculine world would substitute for it the idea of "justice." The difficulty with that is that there is not much compassion in their justice, and justice without compassion is not justice at all.
Category: Animal Rights Author: Ashley Montague
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There will be no justice as long as man will stand with a knife or with a gun and destroy those who are weaker than he is.
Category: Animal Rights Author: Isaac Bashevis Singer
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Every year tens of thousands of animals suffer and die in laboratory tests of cosmetics and household products... despite the fact that the test results do not help prevent or treat accidental or purposeful misuse of the products. Please join me in using your voice for those whose cries are forever sealed behind the laboratory doors.
Category: Animal Rights Author: Woody Harrelson
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Man is not the lord of all the world's animals. He is the protector.
Category: Animal Rights Author: John Forsythe
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The life spark in my eyes is in no way different than the life spark in the eyes of any other sentient being.
Category: Animal Rights Author: Michael Stepaniak Source: The Vegan Sourcebook
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This tendency [to cruelty] should be watched in them [children], and if they incline to any such cruelty, they should be taught the contrary usage. For the custom of tormenting and killing other animals will, by degrees, harden their hearts even towards men.... And they, who delight in the suffering and destruction of inferior creatures, will not be apt to be very compassionate or benign to those of their own kind. Children should from the beginning be brought up in an abhorrence of killing or tormenting living beings.... And indeed, I think people from their cradles should be tender to all sensible creatures.... All the entertainment and talk of History is of nothing but fighting and killing; and the honour and renown that is bestowed on conquerors, who, for the most part, are but the great butchers of mankind, further mislead youth.
Category: Animal Rights Author: John Locke
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Beyond domestic animals and our response to their fealty and affection, we have a peculiar charge concerning the wild animals which supply our clothes, food and adornments.
Category: Animal Rights Author: S Parkes Cadman
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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.
Category: Animal Rights Author: Albert Schweitzer
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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.
Category: Animal Rights Author: St Francis of Assisi
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