The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.
- Mahatma Gandhi

Animals whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equals.
-Charles Darwin, Metaphysics, Materialism, and the Evolution of Mind

All the arguments to prove human superiority cannot shatter this hard fact: in suffering, the animals are our equals.
-Peter Singer, author of Animal Liberation

The animals of the world exist for their own purposes.  They were not made for humans any more than blacks were made for whites, or women for men.
-Alice Walker

To be Yourself in a world that tries, night and day, to make you just like everybody else is to fight the greatest battle there ever is to fight-- and never stop fighting.
-e.e. cummings

Kindness is the only service that will stand the storm of life and not wash out.  It will wear well, look well and be remembered long after the prism of politeness or the complexion of courtesy has faded away.
-Abraham Lincoln

Our task must be to free ourselves...by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
-Albert Einstein

It's a matter of taking the side of the week against the strong, something the best people have always done.
-Harriet Beecher Stowe

The soul is the same for all living creatures, although the body of each is different.
-Hippocrates

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.
-Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904- )

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.
-Froude (1818-1894)

When a man wants to murder a tiger, it's called sport; when the tiger wants to murder him it's called ferocity.
-George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor political, nor popular, but he must take it because his conscience tells him that it is right.
-Martin Luther King Jr.

There is no fundamental difference between man and the higher animals in their mental faculties... The lower animals, like man, manifestly feel pleasure and pain, happiness, and misery.
-Charles Darwin

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.
-Ingrid Newkirk

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.
-Thomas A. Edison (1847-1931)

The thinking [person] must oppose all cruel customs no matter how deeply rooted in tradition and surrounded by a halo. When we have a choice, we must avoid bringing torment and injury into the life of another...
-Albert Schweitzer

Animals share with us the privilege of having a soul
-Pythagoras

Look deep into the eyes of any animal, and then for a moment, trade places, their life becomes as precious as yours and you become as vulnerable as them. Now smile if you believe all animals deserve our respect and our protection, for in a way, they are us, and we are them.
-Philip Ochoa, Board Member, ALL FOR ANIMALS

I am in favour of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being.
-Abraham Lincoln

Not to hurt our humble brethren (the animals) is our first duty to them, but to stop there is not enough. We have a higher mission--to be of service to them whenever they require it... 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.
-Saint Francis of Assisi (mystic and preacher)

Suppose that tomorrow a group of beings from another planet were to land on Earth, beings who considered themselves as superior to you as you feel yourself to be to other animals. Would they have the right to treat you as you treat the animals you breed, keep and kill for food?
-John Harris (1946- )

A thinking man feels compelled to approach all life with the same reverence he has for his own.
-Albert Schweitzer

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.
-Thomas Alva Edison

If a man aspires toward a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from injury to animals.
-Leo Tolstoy

The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them.  That's the essence of inhumanity.
-George Bernard Shaw

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.
-Francis of Assisi

Man has an infinite capacity to rationalize his own cruelty.
-Cleveland Amory

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