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some quotes i`ve collected (long post) - 2005/06/10 11:03
"Thou shalt not kill" does not apply to murder of one`s own kind only, but to all living beings; and this Commandment was inscribed in the human breast long before it was proclaimed from Sinai. Leo Tolstoy A central truth of the Darwinian philosophy is the unity and consanguinity of all organic life. J. Howard Moore A dead cow or sheep lying in a pasture is recognized as carrion. The same sort of a carcass dressed and hung up in a butcher`s stall passes as food. John Harvey Kellogg, MD A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite. And to act so is immoral. Leo Tolstoy A reduction in beef and other meat consumption is the most potent single act you can take to halt the destruction of our environment and preserve our natural resources. Our choices do matter. What`s healthiest for each of us personally is also healthiest for the life support system of our precious, but wounded planet. John Robbins A universe is indeed to be pitied whose dominating inhabitants are so unconscious and so ethically embryonic that they make life a commodity, mercy a disease, and systematic massacre a pastime and a profession. J. Howard Moore A vegetarian is a person who won`t eat anything that can have children. David Brenner Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does. William James Alas, what wickedness to swallow flesh into our own flesh, to fatten our greedy bodies by cramming in other bodies, to have one living creature fed by the death of another! Pythagoras Albert Einstein...took a tiny bite of meat once a year on a Jewish holiday to mollify his wife. All animals are created equal -- But some are more equal than others. George Orwell, Animal Farm All beings seek for happiness; so let your compassion extend itself to all. Mahavamsa All creation is one. What we do to one, we do to the entire web of life. Chief Seattle All great movements, it is written, go through three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption. It is the realisation of this third stage, adoption, that requires our passion and our discipline, our hearts and our heads. The fate of animals is in our hands. Tom Regan All living beings love their life, desire pleasure, and are averse to pain; they dislike any injury to themselves; everybody is desirous of life, and to every being, his own life is very dear... This is the quintessence of wisdom: Not to injure any living being. All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are moveable, and those that move. Arabian Proverb All the arguments to prove man`s superiority can not shatter this hard fact: In suffering, the animals are our equals. Peter Singer All wholesome food is caught without net or trap. William Blake Although the world is very full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it. Helen Keller An atrocious doctrine, that beast and birds were made solely for man`s use and pleasure, and that he has no duties towards them. Wilfrid Scawen Blunt An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it. Mahatma Gandhi An individual animal doesn`t care if its species is facing extinction - it cares if it is feeling pain. Ronnie Lee An old error is always more popular than a new truth. German Proverb And if thy heart be straight with God, then every creature shall be to thee a mirror of life and a book of holy doctrine, for there is no creature so little or so vile, but that sheweth and representeth the goodness of God. Thomas ? Kempis And we have so far improved upon the custom of Adam and Eve, that we generally furnish forth our feasts with a portion of some delicate calf or lamb, whose unspotted innocence entitles them to the happiness of becoming our sustenance. Nathaniel Hawthorn Animal factories are one more sign of the extent to which our technological capacities have advanced faster than our ethics. We plow under habitats of other animals to grow hybrid corn that fattens our genetically engineered animals for slaughter. We make free species extinct and domesticate species into biomachines. We build cruelty into our diet. Jim Mason Animals are my friends...and I don`t eat my friends. George Bernard Shaw Animals are not ours to eat, wear, experiment on, or use for entertainment. They simply are not ours, and we have no business whatsoever in treating them as if we owned them or as if we are entitled to them. PETA Animals cannot speak, but can you and I not speak for them and represent them? Let us all feel their silent cry of agony and let us all help that cry to be heard in the world. Rukmini Devi Arundale Any religion that is not based on a respect for life is not a true religion. Albert Schweitzer As I was nursing Natalie a mosquito landed on me and it seemed natural to let him nurse too. Claire Wilson As long as people will shed the blood of innocent creatures there can be no peace, no liberty, no harmony between people. Slaughter and justice cannot dwell together. Isaac Bashevis Singer As long as there are slaughterhouses, there will be battlefields. Leo Tolstoy As often as Herman had witnessed the slaughter of animals and fish, he always had the same thought: in their behaviour towards creatures, all men were Nazis. The smugness with which man could do with another species as he pleased exemplified the most extreme racist theories, the principal that might is right...for the animals, life is always Treblinka. Isaac Bashevis Singer As soon as I realized that I didn`t need meat to survive or to be in good health, I began to see how forlorn it all is. If only we had a different mentality about the drama of the cowboy and the range and all the rest of it. It`s a very romantic notion, an entrenched part of American culture, but I`ve seen, for example, pigs waiting to be slaughtered, and their hysteria and panic was something I shall never forget. Chloris Leachman As we put into all our schools more humane education, and foster the spirit of justice and kindness toward the "lower" creatures, just as soon shall we reach the roots not only of cruelty but of crime. Miriam Ferguson, former governor of Texas As we talked of freedom and justice one day for all, we sat down to steaks. I am eating misery, I thought, as I took the first bite. And spit it out. Alice Walker Ask the experimenters why they experiment on animals, and the answer is: "Because the animals are like us." Ask the experimenters why it is morally OK to experiment on animals, and the answer is: "Because the animals are not like us." Animal experimentation rests on a logical contradiction. Prof. Charles R. Magel Assisting in heart operations, one sees the cholesterol firsthand...as thick ropes of glue which make the blood redwhite rather than red. Margaret Lytz At the moment our human world is based on the suffering and destruction of millions of non-humans. To perceive this and to do something to change it in personal and public ways is to undergo a change of perception akin to a religious conversion. Nothing can ever be seen in quite the same way again... Arthur Conan Doyle Atrocities are not less atrocities when they occur in laboratories and are called medical research. George Bernard Shaw Auschwitz begins whenever someone looks at a slaughterhouse and thinks: they`re only animals. Theodor Adorno Awareness is bad for the meat business. Conscience is bad for the meat business. Sensitivity to life is bad for the meat business. DENIAL, however, the meat business finds indispensable. John Robbins Behind every beautiful fur, there is a story. It is a bloody, barbaric story. Mary Tyler Moore Being American is to eat a lot of beef steak, and boy, we`ve got a lot more beef steak than any other country, and that`s why you ought to be glad you`re an American. And people have started looking at these big hunks of bloody meat on their plates, you know, and wondering what on earth they think they`re doing. Kurt Vonnegut Billions of animals are butchered every day without a shadow of remorse. It cries vengeance upon all the human race. Romain Rolland But for the sake of some little mouthful of flesh we deprive a soul of the sun and light, and of that proportion of life and time it had been born into the world to enjoy. Plutarch But to deliver animals to be slaughtered and cooked, and thus be filled with murder, not for the sake of nutriment and satisfying the wants of nature, but making pleasure and gluttony the end of such conduct is transcendently iniquitous and dire! Porphyry By all that is sacred in our hope for the human race, I conjure those who love happiness and truth to give a fair trial to the vegetable system! Percy Bysshe Shelly Can one regard a fellow creature as a property item, an investment, a piece of meat, an "it," without degenerating into cruelty towards that creature? Karen Davis, PhD Compared with that of Taoists and Far Eastern Buddhists, the Christian attitude toward Nature has been curiously insensitive and often downright domineering and violent. Taking their cue from an unfortunate remark in Genesis, Catholic moralists have regarded animals as mere things which men do right to regard for their own ends... Aldous Huxley Compassion for animals is intimately connected with goodness of character; and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to animals cannot be a good man. Arthur Schopenhauer Confining a de-beaked hen in a battery cage is more than a moral crime; it is a living sign of our failure to recognize the blessing of God in creation. Rev. Dr. Andrew Linzey Cows are amongst the gentlest of breathing
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