Dalai Lama Quotes About Animal Rights

• Life is as dear to a mute creature as it is to man. Just as one wants happiness and fears pain, just as one wants to live and not die, so do other creatures.

  Dalai Lama

  Pain, Men, Compassion

• Whenever I visit a market and see the chickens crowded together in tiny cages that give them no room to move around and spread their wings and the fish slowly drowning in the air, my heart goes out to them. People have to learn to think about animals in a different way, as sentient beings who love life and fear death. I urge everyone who can to adopt a compassionate vegetarian diet.

  Dalai Lama

  Moving, Heart, Love Life

• Killing animals for sport, for pleasure, for adventure, and for hides and furs is a phenomena which is at once disgusting and distressing. There is no justification in indulging is such acts of brutality.

  Dalai Lama

  Sports, Funny Inspirational, Adventure

• In order to satisfy one human stomach, so many lives are taken away. We must promote vegetarianism. It is extremely important.

  Dalai Lama

  Life, Taken, Vegetarianism

  His Holiness the Dalai Lama (2000). “The Transformed Mind: Reflections on Truth, Love and Happiness”, p.57, Penguin UK

• Morally speaking, we should be concerned for our whole environment.

  Dalai Lama

  Animal, Environment, Should

  Dalai Lama XIV (1995). “My Tibet”, p.53, Univ of California Press

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