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Twilight's Collection of Animal Rights
Quotes
"I believe in animal rights, human rights, land rights, water
rights, air rights." -Rod Coronado
"The fidelity of a dog is a
precious gift demanding no less binding moral responsibilities than the
friendship of a human being." -Konrad Lorenz, "Man Meets Dog"
"I ask
for the privilege of not being born ...not to be born until you can assure me of
a home and a master to protect me, and a right to live as long as I am
physically able to enjoy life...not to be born until my body is precious and men
have ceased to exploit it because it is cheap and plentiful." -Author
Unknown
"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
"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
Put a small
child in a playpen with an apple and a bunny. If s/he eats the apple and plays
with the bunny, s/he's normal; but if s/he eats the bunny and plays with the
apple, I'll buy you a new car. Somewhere along the line we must have been TAUGHT
to do the wrong thing. --Maynard
I ask people why they have deer heads on
their walls. They always say because it's such a beautiful animal. Well, I think
my mother is attractive, but I just keep photographs of her. -- Ellen DeGeneres
"I saw deep in the eyes of the animals the human soul look out upon me.
I saw where it was born deep down under feathers and fur, or condemned for a
while to roam four-footed among the brambles I caught the clinging mute glance
of the prisoner and swore that I would be faithful." -Henry David
Thoreau
"All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian, or
Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to
terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit." -Thomas Paine,
"Age Of Reason"
"As long as man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of
lower beings, he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre
animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seeds of murder and
pain cannot reap joy and love" -Pythagoras
"All beings tremble before
violence. All fear death, all love life. See yourself in others. Then whom can
you hurt? What harm can you do?" -Buddha
"Nothing will benefit human
health and increase the chances for survival of life on earth as much as the
evolution to a vegetarian diet" -Albert Einstein
"He that killeth an ox
is as if he slew a man..." -Isaiah 66:3
Six million Jews died in
concentration camps, but six billion broiler chickens will die this year in
slaughter houses. -Ingrid Newkirk (PETA)
On leather jackets: That's the
next step. You have to take one step at a time. It was easier to start with fur.
-Dan Matthews, Director of Fur Campaign, PETA
Never buy wool again.
Choose only cotton, synthetics and other non-animal fibers. -PETA
Humanity is the cancer of nature. -Dave Foreman, Earth First!
Man is always and everywhere a blight on the landscape. -John Muir,
Founder of the Sierra Club
If the death of one rat cured all diseases,
it wouldn't make any difference to me. -Chris Derose, founder and director of
Last Chance for Animals
The liberation of animal life can only be
achieved through the radical transformation of human consciousness and the
overthrow of the existing power structure. -Transpecies Unlimited
The
animal rights movement is "part of a revolutionary process aimed at
restructuring the major institution of society..." -Dr. Morgan, Mobilization for
Animals
The optimum human population of earth is zero. -Dave Foreman,
Earth First!
The human race could go extinct and I for one would not
shed any tears. -Dave Foreman, Earth First!
The animals of the world
exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black
people were made for whites or women for men. -Alice Walker
Our task must
be to free ourselves... by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all
living creatures and the whole of nature and it's beauty.
-Albert
Einstein
Mercy to animals means mercy to mankind. -Henry
Bergh
The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by
the way its animals are treated. -Mahatama Gandhi
Now I
can look at you in peace; I don't eat you any more. -Franz Kafka
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
The wild, cruel animal is not behind the bars of a cage.
He is in front of it. -Axel Munthe
Ostrasize hunters and trappers from
your social life. Don't patronize stores and services owned by hunters and
trappers. -Edward F. Dolan
It's hard to remember, if all you see of a
chicken are it's body parts wrapped in plastic, or crates of them crammed on a
slaughterhouse bound truck, but chickens are individuals. Anyone who gets to
know a particular chicken learns that their range of emotions is vast and
undeniable.
- PETA
investigator
Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel.
He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it. - Mark
Twain
[Refering to a chicken egg factory] The stench, the ammonia,
the noise - it's like hen hell. -Pam Clarke
No Fishing Because fish have
a brain, a central nervous system, and pain receptors, they can feel pain just
like cats, dogs, and humans. Just because they can't scream doesn't mean that
they are not in pain. Also, other animals, like birds, often strangle or choke
to death on lost hooks and lines. - PETA
I expect to pass
through this world but once; any good thing therefore that I can do, or any
kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now; let me not
defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.
-
Anonymous
What are we doing when we brainwash children in schools to cut
open their fellow animals? Are we dangerously desensitizing them? Some of the
most warped and blunted people I know are those who have gone through training
of this sorts. -Richard D. Ryder
Conserve a hunter, harvest one today.
-unknown
The fate of animals is of greater importance to me than the fear
of appearing ridiculous; it is indissolubly connected with the fate of men.
-Emile Zola
I am the voice of the voiceless;
Through me the dumb shall
speak,
Till the deaf world's ears be made to hear
The wrongs of the
wordless weak.
.......................
And I am my brothers keeper,
And
I will fight his fights;
And speak the words for beast and bird
Till the
world shall set things right.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
We are part of the
earth and it is part of us. The perfumes flowers are our sisters; the deer, the
horse, the great eagle: these are our brothers. All things are connected like
the blood which unites one's family. -Chief Seattle
I care not much for a
man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it. -Abraham
Lincoln
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
To
my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being. The
more helpless the creature, the more that it is entitled to protection by man
from the cruelty of man. -Mahatma Gandhi
Truly
man is the king of beast for his brutality exceeds theirs. We live by the death
of others. We are burial places. - Leonardo Da Vinci
Flesh can not be procured without causing destruction of life;
one who uses flesh, therefore, commits hisma (injury) unavoidably.
-Jainism
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. --
One does not meet one's self until one catches the reflection
from an eye other than human. -Loren Eisley
The soul is the same in all
living creatures, although the body of each is different. -Hippocrates
There is not an animal on the earth, nor a flying creature
on two tings, but they are people like unto you. - The Koran
Behind every
beautiful fur, there is a story. It is a bloody, barbaric story - Mary Tyler
Moore
Animals share with us the privilege of having a soul
-Pythagoras
The squirrel that you kill in jest, dies in earnest - Henry David
Thoreau
When a man wants to murder a tiger it is called a sport, when
the tiger wants to murder him it is called ferocity. -
Geroge Bernard
Shaw
The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of
man - Charles Darwin
All cruelty springs from weakness.
-Seneca
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
The more I see of men the more I like dogs. - Madame De
Stael
I feel very sorry for women who continue to purchase real fur
coats. They are lacking in a woman's most important requisites, heart and
sensitivity. -Jayne Meadows
It is just like man's vanity and impertinence
to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull senses. - Mark
Twain
Peace begins in the kitchen: Go vegetarian. -
PETA
Nothing will benefit
human health or increase the chances for survival of life on earth as the
evolution to a vegetarian diet. - Albert Einstein
I
never thought much of the courage of a lion-tamer. Inside the cage he is at
least safe from people. -
George Bernard
Shaw
If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will
not bite you; that is the principal difference between a dog and a man. - Mark
Twain
The lives of animals are woven into our very being -closer
than our own breathing-and our souls will suffer when they are gone. -Gary
Kowalski
nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet
we make the same impression on vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not
our own. - Robert Louis Stevenson
One robin caged and Heaven's mad! But
when to just that one you add vast flocks of battered battery birds and half
starved calves in crated herds and multitudes of tethered sows in narrow stalls
- these horrors rouse all Heaven to a rage so wild it's former rage seems a
wonderous mild. - Patrick Allen
It is my view that the vegetarian manner
of living by it's purely physical effect on the human temperament would most
beneficially influence the lot of mankind. - Albert Einstein
The truck
was filled with cows, their eyes desperate while mine were sad. - Holly Palmer
Turner
We fill the slaughterhouses daily with screams of fear and pain. -
Robert Louis Stevenson
All beings tremble before violence. All fear
death. All love life. -Buddha
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