Satish Kumar Quotes About Animals

Quotes about: Animals

• If you can kill animals, the same attitude can kill human beings. The mentality is the same which exploits nature and which creates wars.

  Satish Kumar

  Attitude, War, Animal

  "Walking The World For Peace". Interview with Robert Gilman, www.context.org. Summer, 1987.

• We must realize that violence is not confined to physical violence. Fear is violence, caste discrimination is violence, exploitation of others, however subtle, is violence, segregation is violence, thinking ill of others and condemning others are violence. In order to reduce individual acts of physical violence, we must work to eliminate violence at all levels, mental, verbal, personal, and social, including violence to animals, plants, and all other forms of life.

  Satish Kumar

  Fear, Thinking, Animal

• Nature is out there, and we can do what we like to it. We can cut down the rain forest. We can put animals in factory farms and slaughter them as we like. We can over-fish the oceans. We can pollute the rivers. We can pollute the water and change climate. We are somehow superior to nature. We are somehow rulers of nature.

  Satish Kumar

  Rain, Ocean, Cutting

  "An Interview with Satish Kumar at the New Story Summit". Kosmos Interview, www.kosmosjournal.org. November 18, 2014.

• It doesn't matter where or how it is grown as long as it is packaged in plastic, put on the supermarket shelves, and bought as a commodity. In the New Story food is not commodity. Food is sacred. We need to be connected with soil, with animals that we take care of.

  Satish Kumar

  Animal, Long, Needs

  "An Interview with Satish Kumar at the New Story Summit". Kosmos Interview, www.kosmosjournal.org. November 18, 2014.

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