Suffer

Quote	Author	source	year, (BC), birth, est.	death (BC)	notes	suffer	humor	celeb
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.	Walker, Alice	author, The Color Purple	1944			1		y
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 because once you have admitted the terror and pain of other species you will, unless you resist conversion, be always aware of the endless permutations of suffering that support our society.	Conan-Doyle, Sir Arthur	English physician, author, Sherlock Holmes	1859	1930		1		y
I know, in my soul, that to eat a creature who is raised to be eaten, and who never has a chance to be a real being, is unhealthy. It's like...you're just eating misery. You're eating a bitter life.	Walker, Alice	author, The Color Purple	1944			1		y
Martin Luther King taught us all nonviolence. I was told to extend nonviolence to the mother and her calf.	Gregory, Dick	US comedian	1932			1		y
Pigs may not be as cuddly as kittens or puppies, but they suffer just as much.	Cromwell, James	English actor, Babe	1940			1		y
She gave up eating pork three years ago, despite her proud pork-loving, half-Cuban heritage, because she was told pigs share the same mental capacity as 3-year-old children. 'My niece was 3 at the time, which is a magical age,' she said, horrified. 'I thought, Oh, my god, it's like eating my niece!' This, then, also put an end to her preferred hangover cure: Egg McMuffins with Canadian bacon, natch, and beer.	Diaz, Cameron					1		y
We consume the carcasses of creatures of like appetites, passions and organs with our own, and fill the slaughterhouses daily with screams of fear and pain.	Stevenson, Robert Louis	Scottish author, Treasure Isl., Dr. Jekyll & Hyde	1850	1894		1		y
We manage to swallow flesh only because we do not think of the cruel and sinful thing that we do. Cruelty... is a fundamental sin, and admits of no arguments or nice distinctions. If only we do not allow our heart to grow callous, it protests against cruelty, is always clearly heard; and yet we go on perpetrating cruelties easily, merrily, all of us - in fact, anyone who does not join in is dubbed a crank.	Tagore, Rabindranath	Bengali educator, poet, Nobel Prize winner 1913	1861	1941	composer of India's National Anthem	1		y
We stopped eating meat many years ago. During the course of a Sunday lunch we happened to look out of the kitchen window at our young lambs playing happily in the fields. Glancing down at our plates, we suddenly realized that we were eating the leg of an animal who had until recently been playing in a field herself. We looked at each other and said, "Wait a minute, we love these sheep--they're such gentle creatures. So why are we eating them?" It was the last time we ever did.	McCartney, Paul & Linda	English musicians, Beatles	1942			1		y
Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.	Schweitzer, Rev. Dr. Albert	German physician, author, Nobel Peace Prize 1952	1875	1965		1		y
Animals are being exploited in such an unbelievable way; it's not acceptable. PETA is trying to get your attention, and they're successful at it. ... If you talk to people who grew up on a farm, they'll tell you that they had an experience where they were taking care of a cow, and one day their parents took it away and killed it. It's a torturous experience for them, and that's when they became hard. People are taught to be grown-up or whatever, and that's dumb. That bond they had with that cow or chicken was real.	Silverstone, Alicia	American actress	1997			1		y
Behind every beautiful fur, there is a story. It is a bloody, barbaric story.	Moore, Mary Tyler	American actress	1936			1		y
But man to whom alone is given/ A ray direct from pitying /Heaven Glories in his heart humane /And creatures for his pleasure slain.	Burns, Robert	Scotish poet. On Scaring Some Waterfowl	1759	1796		1		y
How pitiful, and what poverty of mind, to have said that the animals are machines deprived of understanding and feeling . . . has Nature arranged all the springs of feeling in this animal to the end that he might not feel? Has he nerves that he may he incapable of suffering? People must have renounced, it seems to me, all natural intelligence to dare to advance that animals are but animated machines . . . It appears to me, besides, that [such people] can never have observed with attention the character of animals, not to have distinguished among them the different Voices of need, of suffering, of joy, of pain, of love, of anger, and of all their affections. It would be very strange that they should express so well what they could not feel. . . . They are endowed with life as we are, because they have the same principles of life, the same feelings, the same ideas, memory, industry—as we.	Voltaire	French author, quote from Trate sur la tolerance	1694	1778		1		y
Humans - who enslave, castrate, experiment on, and fillet other animals - have had an understandable penchant for pretending animals do not feel pain. A sharp distinction between humans and "animals" is essential if we are to bend them to our will, make them work for us, wear them, eat them - without any disquieting tinges of guilt or regret. It is unseemly of us, who often behave so unfeelingly toward other animals, to contend that only humans can suffer. The behavior of other animals renders such pretensions specious. They are just too much like us.	Sagan, Dr. Carl & Druyan, Ann	US astronomer, quote from Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors, 1992	1934	1996		1		y
I have been a vegetarian for about 10 years. And it really was due to the reading that I did. And they explain so that you understand why it's important for the planet's survival along with compassion for animals. It certainly made it much easier for me. I lost weight really fast. My mother died from cancer so this is all very personal to me. And I just would like the planet to be a better place. And I think you'll find a vegetarian diet to be really incredible these days.	Blair, Linda					1		y
I must interpret the life about me as I interpret the life that is my own. My life is full of meaning to me. The life around me must be full of significance to itself. If I am to expect others to respect my life, then I must respect the other life I see, however strange it may be to mine. . . . We need a boundless ethics which will include the animals also.	Schweitzer, Rev. Dr. Albert	German physician, author, Nobel Peace Prize 1952	1875	1965	Civilization and Ethics	1		y
In order to satisfy one human stomach, so many lives are taken away. We must promote vegetarianism. It is extremely important.	Lama, Dalai, His Holiness	The XIV Dalai Lama of Tibet	1935		Live In a Better Way, 2001	1		y
In our approach to life, be it pragmatic or otherwise, the ultimate truth that confronts us squarely and unmistakably is the desire for peace, security and happiness. Different forms of life in different aspects of existence make up the teeming denizens of this earth of ours. And, no matter whether they belong to the higher group as human beings or to the lower group, the animals, all beings primarily seek peace, comfort and security. Life is as dear to a mute creature as it is to a man. Just as one wants happiness and fears pain, just as one wants to live and not to die, so do other creatures.	Lama, Dalai, His Holiness	The XIV Dalai Lama of Tibet	1935		speaking at World Vegetarian Congress, 1967	1		y
Intellectually, human beings and animals may be different, but it's pretty obvious that animals have a rich emotional life and that they feel joy and pain. It's easy to forget the connection between a hamburger and the cow it came from. But I forced myself to acknowledge the fact that every time I ate a hamburger, a cow had ceased to breathe and moo and walk around.	Moby				Musician	1		y
Let no one regard as light the burden of his responsibility. While so much ill-treatment of animals goes on, while the moans of thirsty animals in railway trucks sound unheard, while so much brutality prevails in our slaughterhouses ... we all bear guilt. Everything that lives has value as a living thing, as one of the manifestations of the mystery that is life.	Schweitzer, Rev. Dr. Albert	German physician, author, Nobel Peace Prize 1952	1875	1965		1		y
Never again may blood of bird or beast/ Stain with its venomous stream a human feast,/ To the pure skies in accusation steaming. "I wish no living thing to suffer pain."	Shelley, Percy Bysshe	English poet, quote from Queen Mab Notes	1792	1822	author of A Vindication of Natural Diet in defense of vegetarianism	1		y
No longer now/ He slays the lamb that looks him in the face,/ And horribly devours his mangled flesh;/ Which, still avenging nature's broken law,/ Kindled all putrid humours in his frame,/ All evil passions, and all vain belief,/ Hatred, despair, and loathing in his mind,/ The germs of misery, death, disease, and crime."	Shelley, Percy Bysshe	English poet, quote from Queen Mab Notes	1792	1822	author of A Vindication of Natural Diet in defense of vegetarianism	1		y
Now I can look at you in peace; I don't eat you anymore. Looking at fish in aquarium	Kafka, Franz	Czech author	1883	1924		1		y
Please put the ladybug outside without harming her. (to his butler)	Churchill, Sir Winston	English statesman	1874	1965		1		y
The thing that has been weighing on my mind this week is that I wanted to go and save all the little live lobsters in restaurants and throw them back in the ocean. Imagine me being arrested for that.	Barrymore, Drew					1		y
The thinking man 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, even the lowliest creature; to do so is to renounce our manhood and shoulder a guilt which nothing justifies.	Schweitzer, Rev. Dr. Albert	German physician, author, Nobel Peace Prize 1952	1875	1965		1		y
There is no fundamental difference between man and the higher mammals in their mental faculties.... The difference in mind between man and the higher animals, great as it is, certainly is one of degree and not of kind. We have seen that the senses and intuitions, the various emotions and faculties, such as love, memory, attention and curiosity, imitation, reason, etc., of which man boasts, may be found in an incipient, or even sometimes a well-developed condition, in the lower animals.	Darwin, Charles	English scientist	1809	1882		1		y
We are compelled by the commandment of love contained in our hearts and thought, and proclaimed by Jesus, to give rein to our natural sympathy for animals. We are also compelled to help them and spare them suffering.	Schweitzer, Rev. Dr. Albert	German physician, author, Nobel Peace Prize 1952	1875	1965		1		y
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.	Lama, Dalai, His Holiness	The XIV Dalai Lama of Tibet	1935		speech 1998	1		y
You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity. In Fate	Emerson, Ralph Waldo	American author	1803	1882		1		y
We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form.	Inge, Rev. William Ralph	Anglican priest, Prof. Divinity, Oxford	1860	1954	Outspoken Essays, 1922	1	3
Animals are often transported long distances and subjected to great suffering in reaching a market. Taken from the green pastures and traveling for weary miles over the hot, dusty roads, or crowded into filthy cars, feverish and exhausted, often for many hours deprived of food and water, the poor creatures are driven to their death, that human beings may feast on the carcasses.	White, Ellen	co-founder Seventh Day Adventists	1827	1915		1
Every particle of factual evidence supports the factual contention that the higher mammalian vertebrates experience pain sensations at least as acute as our own. To say that they feel pain less because they are lower animals is an absurdity; it can easily be shown that many of their senses are far more acute than ours - visual acuity in certain birds, hearing in most wild animals, and touch in others; these animals depend more than we do today on a the sharpest possible awareness of a hostile environment. Apart from the complexity of the cerebral cortex (which does not directly perceive pain) their nervous systems are almost identical to ours and their reaction to pain remarkably similar, though lacking (so far as we know) the philosophical and moral overtones. The emotional element is all too evident, mainly in the form of fear and anger.	Serjeant, Richard	wrote "The Spectrum of Pain", 1969				1
I do not like eating meat because I have seen lambs and pigs killed. I saw and felt their pain. They felt their approaching death. I could not bear it. I cried like a child. I ran up a hill and could not breathe. I felt that I was choking. I felt the death of the lamb.	Nijinsky, Vaslav	Russian ballet dancer and choreographer	1889	1950		1
In the early 80's I witnessed a Calgary Stampede.. and saw a calf whose neck was apparently broken from the roping. (A horizontal hanging can occur).	Papes, Don		1990			1
Objectification reduces sensitivity. Thus cows are called beef or head of cattle, pigs become pork, sheep mutton. The screams are muted.. and living creatures become plastic wrapped packages.	Fruitarian Network		2000			1
The awful cruelty and terror to which tens of thousands of animals killed for human food are subjected in traveling long distances by ship and rail and road to the slaughterhouses of the world.. God disapproves of all cruelty.. whether to man or beast. The occupation of slaughtering animals is brutalizing to those who are required to do the work.... I believe this matter is well worthy of the serious consideration of Christian leaders.	Booth, Mrs. and Booth, General Bramwell	daughter-in-law and son of the founder of the Salvation Army	1856	1929		1
The awful wrongs and sufferings forced upon the innocent, faithful animal race, form the blackest chapter in the whole world's history.	Freeman, Edward Augustus	Regius Professor of Modern History, Oxford	1823	1892		1
Very few people question that it is an act of kindness to put an animal painlessly to death if it is injured beyond possibility of a pain-free future; or that it is better to neuter pets than to allow thousands of unwanted litters to be born. But mention it might be better for a breeding sow in a farrowing crate if she had never been born, and you will be met with chants of "Any life is better than no life". Humans have an odd way of finding pleasure in activities that bring them pleasure, or profit, or both.	Humphries, Bronwen					1
Yet saddest of all fates, surely, is to have lost that sense of the holiness of life altogether; that we commit the blasphemy of bringing thousands of lives to a cruel and terrifying death or of making those lives a living death -- and feel nothing.	Baker, Rev. Dr. John Austin	Bishop of Salisbury, England 1982-1993	1985			1
. . there is one other thought closely allied to this. What of our duties to our fellow-men? And here I appeal particularly to my own sex, because women are supposed to be rather the standard in the community of refinement, of gentleness, of compassion, of tenderness, of purity. But no one can eat the flesh of a slaughtered animal without having used the hand of a man as slaughterer. Suppose that we had to kill for ourselves the creatures whose bodies we would fain have upon our table, is there one woman in a hundred who would go to the slaughterhouse to slay the bullock, the calf, the sheep or the pig? . . . But if we could not do it, nor see it done; if we are so refined that we cannot allow close contact between ourselves and the butchers who furnish this food; if we feel that they are so coarsened by their trade that their very bodies are made repulsive by the constant contact of the blood with which they must be continually besmirched; if we recognize the physical coarseness which results inevitably from such contact, dare we call ourselves refined if we purchase our refinement by the brutalization of others, and demand that some should be brutal in order that we may eat the results of their brutality? We are not free from the brutalizing results of that trade simply because we take no direct part in it.	Besant, Dr. Annie	2nd Pres of Theooophical Society, elected in 1907. An antivivisectionist, supporter of women's suffrage, and worked for the regeneration of India.	1847	1933	from speech given in Manchester UK, 18 Oct. 1897. In 1898 she founded the Central Hindu College in Benares.	1
A good deed done to an animal is as meritorious as a good deed done to a human being, while an act of cruelty to an animal is as bad as an act of cruelty to a human being.	Mohammed, The Prophet		570	632		1
A hamburger stops a beating heart	unknown				on T-shirt	1
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		(563)	(483)		1
All living things love their life, desire pleasure and do not like pain; they dislike any injury to themselves; everybody is desirous of life and to every being, his life is very dear.	Yogashastra (Jain Scripture)		(500)			1
All the arguments to prove man's superiority can not shatter this hard fact: In suffering, the animals are our equals.	Singer, Peter	Australian professor, author "Animal Liberation"	1946			1
Although other animals cannot reason or speak the way humans do, this does not give us the right to do with them as we like. Even though our supposed possession of a soul and superior intelligence are used to create an arbitrary dividing line over rights, the fact remains that all animals have the capacity to experience pain and suffering, and in suffering they are our equals.	Altman, Nathaniel		1948			1
An individual animal doesn't care if its species is facing extinction - it cares if it is feeling pain.	Lee, Ronnie		1951			1
Animals are sentient beings with an intrinsic worth.	Winberg, Margareta	Swedish Agricultural Minister			speaking to an EU conference focusing on humane treatment of animals in Europe	1
Anything that can feel pain should not be put to pain.	Dolgin, R. M.					1
Because the heart beats under a covering of hair, of fur, feathers, or wings, it is, for that reason, to be of no account?	Richter, Jean Paul	German pastor, teacher	1763	1825	1st person in history to decipher Leonardo da Vinci's notebooks	1
Deliberate cruelty to our defenseless and beautiful little cousins is surely one of the meanest and most detestable vices of which a human being can be guilty.	Inge, Rev. William Ralph	Anglican priest, Prof. Divinity, Oxford	1860	1954	Outspoken Essays, 1922	1
For the sake of love of purity, the Bodhisattva should refrain from eating flesh, which is born of semen, blood, etc. For fear of causing terror to living beings let the Bodhisattva, who is disciplining himself to attain compassion, refrain from eating flesh... It is not true that meat is proper food and permissible when the animal was not killed by himself, when he did not order others to kill it, when it was not specially meant for him. Again, there may be some people in the future who ... being under the influence of the taste for meat will string together in various ways sophistic arguments to defend meat eating. But... meat eating in any form, in any manner, and in any place is unconditionally and once for all prohibited... Meat eating I have not permitted to anyone, I do not permit, I will not permit.	Lankavatara Sutra					1
I am not basically a conservationist. When the last great whale is slaughtered, as it surely will be, the whales' suffering will be over. This is not the whales' loss, but man's. I am not concerned about the wiping out of a species - this is man's folly - I have only one concern, the suffering which we deliberately inflict upon animals whilst they live.	Hollands, Clive		1929			1
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.	unknown					1
I consider the 3 most cruelly produced foods to be from lobsters, dropped alive into boiling water, veal from calves separated from their mothers and kept in crates, and pate de foie gras. (Pate de foie gras is covered in the film Mondo Kane which shows the force feeding of geese. Food is stuffed down their throats with a pole.. when they want to regurgitate.. a brass ring is tied around the throat.. the excess food creates a stuffed liver pleasing to gourmets.) (Caviar comes from the ripping out of the ovaries of the mother sturgeon fish.)	Amory, Cleveland	Harvard Crimson editor, TV Guide, Parade columnist	1917	1998		1
I know of no more beautiful prayer than that which the Hindus of old used in closing: May all that have life be delivered from suffering.	Schopenhauer, Arthur	German philosopher, from On the Basis of Morality	1788	1860		1
In happiness and suffering, in joy and grief, we should regard all creatures as we regard our own self, and should therefore refrain from inflicting upon others such injury as would appear undesirable to us if inflicted upon ourselves.	Yogashastra (Jain Scripture)		(500)			1
Killing an animal is not the same thing as mowing the grass. A life ends. That's something you take seriously. What does the word 'sacred' mean? You do not treat it as an ordinary thing. Killing cattle is not the same as running grain through a mill.	Grandin, Temple, Ph.D.	board mem. of U.S. meat industry's Livestock Conservation Institute			Assist. Prof of Animal Science at Colorado State Univ.	1
Let us pray that our food should not be colored with animal blood and human suffering.	Chitrabhanuji					1
Living creatures possess a moving soul and a certain spiritual superiority which in this respect make them similar to those who possess intellect (people) and they have the power of affecting their welfare and their food and they flee from pain and death.	Nachmanides	Rabbi	1194	1270	philosopher, physician, Kabalah scholar, mystic	1
Man is not the pedestalled creature pictured by his imagination - a being glittering with prerogatives, and towering apart from and above all other beings. He is a pain-shunning, pleasure-seeking, death-dreading organism, differing in particulars, but not in kind, from the pain-shunning, pleasure-seeking, death-dreading organisms below and around him.	Moore, J. Howard	Chicago, professor of Zoology	1862	1916	wrote "The Universal Kinship"	1
Never believe that animals suffer less than humans. Pain is the same for them that it is for us. Even worse, because they cannot help themselves.	Camuti, Dr. Louis J.		1893	1981		1
No sensitive person would eat flesh if he or she had to do the skull-breaking, slaughtering, strangling, shooting, blood-letting, skinning and disemboweling, and live in the stench and among the agonised cries of the victims.	Rudd, Geoffrey	English anthropologist, author			Secretary of International Vegetarian Union in 1965	1
Not having known anything better does not alleviate the suffering of the animal. Its fundamental desires remain and it is the frustration of those desires that is a great part of its suffering. There are so many examples: the dairy cow who is never allowed to raise her young, the battery hen who can never walk or stretch her wings, the sow who can never build a nest or root for food in the forest litter, etc. Eventually we frustrate the animal's most fundamental desire of all - to live.	Cowles-Hamar, David					1
Pain is pain, whether it is inflicted on man or on beast; and the creature that suffers it, whether man or beast, being sensible of the misery of it whilst it lasts, suffers Evil…	Primatt, Rev. Humphrey	Anglican priest	1736	1779	from A Dissertation on the Duty of Mercy and the Sin of Cruelty to Brute Animals (1776)	1
Refrain at all times from such foods as cannot be procured without violence and oppression. For know that all the inferior creatures when hurt do cry and send forth the complaints to their Maker or grand Fountain whence they proceeded. Be not insensible that every creature does bear the Image of the great Creator according to the Nature of each, and that He is the Vital Power in all things. Therefore let none take pleasure to offer violence to that life, lest he awaken the fierce wrath and bring danger to his own soul.	Tryon, Thomas	British author, pacifist, abolitionist, feminist	1634	1703		1
So long as men are compassionate to such a degree that they cannot hear a fly struggling in a spider's web without emotion it can never be reasonably maintained that it is their natural impulse to wound and kill the dumb animals, or to butcher one another in what is called the field of honour.	Newton, John	author, vegetarian advocate	1770	1827		1
Some will take refuge in the old cliché that humans are different from other animals. But when did a difference justify a moral prejudice? When did those with black hair have a right to mistreat those with red hair...or even those with blue or purple hair...Surely the crucial similarity that men share with other animals is the capacity to suffer? Regardless of the number of legs or the woolliness of our fur, we can all suffer...	Ryder, Richard D.	English scientist, author	1940			1
That's one sad, unhappy, upset cow. She wants her baby. Bellowing for it, hunting for it. It's like grieving, mourning––not much written about it. People don't like to allow them thoughts or feelings. (referring to a reaction of a mother cow when her calf was taken from her)	Grandin, Temple, Ph.D.	board mem. of U.S. meat industry's Livestock Conservation Institute			Assist. Prof of Animal Science at Colorado State Univ.	1
The brute animals have all the same sensations of pain as human beings, and consequently endure as much pain when their body is hurt; but in their case the cruelty of torment is greater, because they have no mind to bear them up against their sufferings, and no hope to look forward to when enduring the last extreme pain.	Chalmers, Rev. Thomas	Scottish Presbyterian, Prof. of Moral Philosophy St. Andrew’s Univ.,	1780	1847	Prof. of Theology Edinburgh Univ., social reformer	1
The butcher relenteth not at the bleating of the lamb; neither is the heart of the cruel moved with distress. But the tears of the compassionate are sweeter than dew-drops, falling from roses on the bosom of spring.	Amenohis IV aka Akhenaton	Egyptian pharoah, revolutionary, "The Heretic King	(1353)	(1335)	Banned animal sacrifice and traditional Egyptian religion and instituted a religion based on compassion and monotheism	1
The day may come when the rest of animal creation may acquire those rights which could never have been withheld from them but by the hand of tyranny...a full-grown horse or dog is beyond comparison a more rational, as well as a more conversable animal, than an infant of a day, or a week or even a month old. But suppose the case were otherwise, what would it avail? The question is not, can they reason? Nor can they talk? But can they suffer? Why should the law refuse its protection to any sensitive being? The time will come when humanity will extend its mantle over everything which breathes.	Bentham, Jeremy	Child prodigy, philosopher, attorney, Oxford Univ.	1748	1832	Mastered Latin at 3 and entered Oxford at 12, a founder of utilitarianism. from Principles of Morals and Legislation	1
The moral evils of a flesh diet are not less marked than are the physical ills. Flesh food is injurious to health, and whatever affects the body has a corresponding effect on the mind and the soul. Think of the cruelty to animals meat-eating involves, and its effect on those who inflict and those who behold it. How it destroys the tenderness with which we should regard those creatures of God!	White, Ellen	co-founder Seventh Day Adventists	1827	1915		1
The old assumption that animals acted exclusively by instinct, while man had a monopoly of reason, is, we think, maintained by few people nowadays who have any knowledge at all about animals. We can only wonder that so absurd a theory could have been held for so long a time as it was, when on all sides the evidence of animals’ power of reasoning is crushing.	Bell, Ernest	International Vegetarian Union Congress President (UK) , 1923-1926	1851	1933	Pres. of Vegetarian Society, Manchester, UK	1
The saints are exceedingly loving and gentle to mankind, and even to brute beasts. . . . Surely we ought to show [animals] great kindness and gentleness for many reasons, but, above all, because they are of the same origin as ourselves.	Chrysotom, Saint John	the most authentic Christian Literary Advocate of his time	347	407		1
The tzaddik (righteous person) acts according to the laws of justice; not only does he act according to these laws with human beings, but also with animals.	Malbim, The					1
The very people who shudder over the cruelty of the hunter are apt to forget that slaughter, in the grimmest sense of the word, is a process they entrust daily to the butcher; and that unlike the game of the forests, even the dumbest creatures of the slaughterhouse know what is in store for them.	Mumford, Lewis	American historian of technology	1895	1990		1
There can be no justification for causing suffering to animals simply to serve man's pleasure or simply to enhance man's lifestyle."	York, The Dean of					1
There is much evidence showing that animals have sophisticated systems for regulating their lives and that they are much disturbed if they cannot control certain aspects of what happens to them. There is also good evidence for elaborate systems for detecting and responding to painful stimuli.	Fraser, A. F. & Broom, D. M.	Fraser: Mem. U. of Newfoundland; Broom: Prof. of Animal Welfare at Cambridge			in their book Farm Animal Behavior and Welfare	1
Think of me tonite, For that which you savor. Did it give you something real, or could you taste the pain of my death in its flavor?	Tolson, Wayne K.	from Food Forethought				1
This [eating animals] appears from the frequent hard-heartedness and cruelty found among those persons whose occupations engage them in destroying animal life, as well as from the uneasiness which others feel in beholding the butchery of animals. It is most evident in respect to the larger animals and those with whom we have a familiar intercourse—such as oxen, sheep, and domestic fowls, etc. They resemble us greatly in the make of the body, in general, and in that of the particular organs of circulation, respiration, digestion, etc.; also in the formation of their intellects, memories and passions, and in the signs of distress, fear, pain and death. They often, likewise, win our affections by the marks of peculiar sagacity, by their instincts, helplessness, innocence, nascent benevolence, etc., and if there be any glimmering hope of an ‘hereafter’ for them—if they should prove to be our brethren and sisters in this higher sense—in immortality as well as mortality, in the permanent principle of our minds as well as in the frail dust of our bodies—this ought to be still further reason for tenderness for them.	Hartley, David		1705	1757		1
To see the convulsions, agonies and tortures of a poor fellow-creature, whom they cannot restore nor recompense, dying to gratify luxury and tickle callous and rank organs, must require a rocky heart, and a great degree of cruelty and ferocity. I cannot find any great difference between feeding on human flesh and feeding on animal flesh, except custom and practice.	Cheyne, George	Scottish physician, medical author, early nutrition expert	1671	1743		1
Veganism denotes a philosophy and way of living which seeks to exclude, as far as possible and practical, all forms of exploitation of, and cruelty to, animals for food, clothing, or any other purpose; and by extension promotes the development and use of animal-free alternatives for the benefit of humans, animals, and the environment.	Watson, Donald	invented the word "vegan"	1910	2005	England, 1940s	1
We find amongst animals, as amongst men, power of feeling pleasure, power of feeling pain; we see them moved by love and by hate; we see them feeling terror and attraction; we recognize in them powers of sensation closely akin to our own, and while we transcend them immensely in intellect, yet in mere passional characteristics our natures and the animals’ are closely allied. We know that when they feel terror, that terror means suffering. We know that when a wound is inflicted, that wound means pain to them. We know that threats bring to them suffering; they have a feeling of shrinking, of fear, of absence of friendly relations, and at once we begin to see that in our relations to the animal kingdom a duty arises which all thoughtful and compassionate minds should recognize—the duty that because we are stronger in mind than the animals, we are or ought to be their guardians and helpers, not their tyrants and oppressors, and we have no right to cause them suffering and terror merely for the gratification of the palate, merely for an added luxury to our own lives.	Besant, Dr. Annie	2nd Pres of Theooophical Society, elected in 1907. An antivivisectionist, supporter of women's suffrage, and worked for the regeneration of India.	1847	1933	from speech given in Manchester UK, 18 Oct. 1897. In 1898 she founded the Central Hindu College in Benares.	1
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.	Newkirk, Ingrid	co-founder of PETA	1990			1
When we recognise that unity of all living things, then at once arises the question - how can we support this life of ours with least injury to the lives around us; how can we prevent our own life adding to the suffering of the world in which we live?	Besant, Dr. Annie	A great reformer, an antivivisectionist	1847	1933	from speech given in Manchester UK, 18 Oct. 1897	1
My wife, Kimora, once told me while we were watching The Texas Chainsaw Massacre that that's a vegetarian movie. The way that woman was screaming, "Aaaahhh," and she's running away that's how every animal you eat is running for his life ...	Simmons, Russell					2	1	y
If you could see or feel the suffering you wouldn't think twice. Give back life. Don't eat meat.	Basinger, Kim	actress	1953			2		y
This [video footage from the movie Babe] is the way Americans want to think of pigs. Real-life "Babes" see no sun in their limited lives, with no hay to lie on, no mud to roll in. The sows live in tiny cages, so narrow they can’t even turn around. They live over metal grates, and their waste is pushed through slats beneath them and flushed into huge pits.	Safer, Morley	Canadian, 60 Minutes TV, Pork Power 1997	1931			2		y
When I was old enough to realize all meat was killed, I saw it as an irrational way of using our power, to take a weaker thing and mutilate it. It was like the way bullies would take control of younger kids in the schoolyard.	Phoenix, River					2		y
A human being is a part of the whole, called by us the 'Universe', a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separate from the rest - a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. Nobody is able to achieve this completely, but the striving for such achievement is in itself a part of the liberation and a foundation for inner security.	Einstein, Albert	German physicist, Nobel prize 1921. His Theory of Relativity laid the foundation for our understanding of physical reality.	1879	1955	vegetarian .. took a tiny bite of meat once a year on a Jewish holiday to mollify his wife.	2		y
Animals of the word exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than blacks were made for whites or women for men.	Walker, Alice	author, The Color Purple	1944			2		y
Can you really ask what reason Pythagoras had for abstaining from flesh? For my part I rather wonder both by what accident and in what state of soul or mind the first man did so, touched his mouth to gore and brought his lips to the flesh of a dead creature, he who set forth tables of dead, stale bodies and ventured to call food and nourishment the parts that had a little before bellowed and cried, moved and lived. How could his eyes endure the slaughter when throats were slit and hides flayed and limbs torn from limb? How could his nose endure the stench? How was it that the pollution did not turn away his taste, which made contact with the sores of others and sucked juices and serums from mortal wounds?	Plutarch	Greek biographer and moralist	46	120		2		y
God, who in creating saw that His creation was good, is the source of joy for all creatures, and above all for humankind. God the Creator seems to say of all creation: 'It is good that you exist.' And His joy spreads especially through the 'good news,' according to which good is greater than all that is evil in the