The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. I hold that the more helpless a creature the more entitled it is to protection by man from the cruelty of humankind.
We are the living graves of murdered beasts.
We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.
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.
The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.
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.
Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.
Man is the only creature that consumes without producing
Cruelty to animals is one of the most significant vices of a low and ignoble people. Wherever one notices them, they constitute a sign of ignorance and brutality which cannot be painted over even by all the evidence of wealth and luxury.
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. Extract from 'Memories of childhood and youth.'
I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men.
Animals share with us the privilege of having a soul.
Any glimpse into the life of an animal quickens our own and makes it so much the larger and better in every way.
The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.
Unless we have courage to recognize cruelty for what it is - whether its victim is human or animal - we cannot expect things to be much better in the world.
The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.
You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity.
Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.
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.
Cruelty to animals is one of the most significant vices of a low and ignoble people.
universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being.
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.
Atrocities are not less atrocities when they occur in laboratories and are called medical research.
I abhor vivisection with my whole soul. All the scientific discoveries stained with innocent blood I count as of no consequence.
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