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ASSORTED QUOTES
"The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men."
Alice Walker
"Any religion or philosophy which is not based on a respect for life is not a true religion or philosophy."
Albert Schweitzer
"I heard the screams of my father as cancer ravaged his body, and then I realised I had heard those screams before - in slaughterhouses, in the dog meat markets, in cattle ships, and the dying mother whale as a harpoon explodes in her brain as she calls out to her calf. Their cries are the cries of my father. And I realised that when we suffer, we suffer as equals."
Philip Wollen OAM, The Winsome Constance Kindness Trust, AU
"Take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented."
"God put the animals in our keeping and made us responsible for their care and protection. We live together on the same planet. Yet, seeking to escape pain ourselves, we do not hesitate to inflict it on our fellow creatures, without compunction. Sowing pain and death, what do we expect to reap?"
Peter Hoffman
"I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men will look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men."
Leonardo da Vinci
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has."
Margaret Mead "There is no more terrible sight than ignorance in action."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
"You may talk about your religion as much as you like, but if it does not teach you to be kind and caring towards animals as well as humans, then it is nothing but a sham."
Anna Sewell
"I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it."
Abraham Lincoln
"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, Nobel Prize Winner
"There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe nor popular, but he must take it because his conscience tells him that it is right."
"Love the animals. God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled. Do not trouble it, don't harass them, don't deprive them of their happiness, don't work against God's intent."
Dostoyevsky, (The Brothers Karamoz, Book V1 Chaper 3)
"If we could live happy and healthy lives without harming others, why wouldn't we?"
Pam Ahern, Edgar's Mission, Australia
"First it was necessary to civilize man in relation to man. Now it is necessary to civilize man in relation to nature and the animals."
Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885). French Poet, Author and Playwright
“Of all the creatures, man is the most detestable. Of the entire brood, he's the one that possesses malice. He is the only creature that inflicts pain for sport, knowing it to be pain. The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.”
Mark Twain, American Novelist
"The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing."
Albert Einstein
“You (my meat-eating friends) put your health at risk - that's your business. But animal-based diets put the land, the water, the air, a society's collective health, and even our collective pharmaceutical resources at risk. That's my business. That's everyone's business."
Howard Lyman, (Ex-cattle rancher turned vegan)
BIBLICAL - OLD TESTAMENT
"His compassion rests upon all his creatures." (Psalm 145:9)
"In that day I will make a covenant for them with the beasts of the field and the birds of the air and the creatures that move along the ground. Bow and sword and battle I will abolish from the land, so that all may lie down in safety." (Hosea 2:18)
"For the fate of the sons of men and the fate of beasts is the same. As one dies so dies the other; indeed, they all have the same breath and there is no advantage for man over beast, for all is vanity." (Ecclesiastes 3:19)
"The wolf will live with the lamb, the leopard will lie down with the goat, the calf and the lion and the yearling together; and a little child will lead them. The cow will feed with the bear, their young will lie down together, and the lion will eat straw like the ox. The infant will play near the hole of the cobra, and the young child put his hand into the viper's nest. They will neither harm nor destroy on my holy mountain, for the earth will be full of the knowledge of the Lord as the waters cover the sea." (Isaiah 11:6-9)
BIBLICAL - NEW TESTAMENT
"If you had known what these words mean, 'I desire mercy, not sacrifice,' you would not have condemned the innocent." (Matthew 12:7)
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