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The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.
John Kenneth Galbraith
Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace.
Albert Schweitzer, French philosopher, physician, and musician (Nobel 1952)
It is my view that the vegetarian manner of living, by its purely physical effect on the human temperament, would most beneficially influence the lot of mankind.
Albert Einstein
 
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.
Leonardo Da Vinci
 
The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man.
Charles Darwin
None so blind as those who will not see.
Matthew Henry
About 2,000 pounds of grains must be supplied to livestock in order to produce enough meat and other livestock products to support a person for a year, whereas 400 pounds of grain eaten directly will support a person for a year. Thus, a given quantity of grain eaten directly will feed 5 times as many people as it will if it is eaten indirectly by humans in the form of livestock products....
M.E. Ensminger, PH.D.
Each snowflake in an avalanche pleads not guilty.
Stanislaw J. Lee
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
Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.
James A. Froude (1818-1894)
If you visit the killing floor of a slaughterhouse, it will brand your soul for life.
Howard Lyman
In fact, if one person is unkind to an animal it is considered to be cruelty, but where a lot of people are unkind to animals, especially in the name of commerce, the cruelty is condoned and, once large sums of money are at stake, will be defended to the last by otherwise intelligent people.
Ruth Harrison, author of Animal Machines
The beef industry has contributed to more American deaths than all the wars of this century, all natural disasters, and all automobile accidents combined. If beef is your idea of 'real food for real people,' you'd better live real close to a real good hospital.
Neal D. Barnard, M.D., President, Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine. Washington, D.C.
Now I can look at you in peace; I don't eat you any more.
Franz Kafka, while admiring fish in an aquarium
Poor animals! How jealously they guard their pathetic bodies . . . that which to us is merely an evening's meal, but to them is life itself.
T. Casey Brennan
Life is life--whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat or a man. The idea of difference is a human conception for man's own advantage.
Sri Aurobindo
Humanity's true moral test, its fundamental test, consists of its attitude toward those who are at tis mercy: animals. And in this respect, human kind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it.
Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
What is it that should trace the insuperable line? ...The question is not, Can they reason? nor Can they talk? but, Can they suffer?
Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832)
Truly man is the king of beasts, for his brutality exceeds them. We live by the death of others. We are burial places.
Leonardo Da Vinci
As long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seeds of murder and pain cannot reap the joy of love.
Pythagoras
When a man wants to murder a tiger, he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him, he calls it ferocity.
George Bernard Shaw, writer, Nobel laureate (1856-1950)
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.
Albert Einstein
Flesh eating is unprovoked murder.
Ben Franklin
When a human being kills an animal for food, he is neglecting his own hunger for justice. Man prays for mercy, but is unwilling to extend it to others. Why then should man expect mercy from God? It is unfair to expect something that you are not willing to give.
Isaac B. Singer
A dead cow or sheep lying in the pasture is recognized as carrion. The same sort of carcass dressed and hung up in a butchers stall passes as food.
J. H. Kellogg
It ill becomes us to invoke in our daily prayers the blessings of God, the Compassionate, if we in turn will not practice elementary compassion towards our fellow creatures.
Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
George Bernard Shaw, writer, Nobel laureate (1856-1950)
The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence that it is not utterly absurd; indeed, in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more often likely to be foolish than sensible.
Bertrand Russell, in "Marriage and Morals", 1929
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
Margaret Mead
In matters of conscience, the law of majority has no place.
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948)
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Martin Luther King Jr.
There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the roots.
Henry David Thoreau, Walden, 1854
It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak, and another to hear.
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
Loyalty to a petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.
Mark Twain, U.S. Author (1835-1910)
There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)
Ultimately, an unbiased observer of human behavior must conclude that most action is not shaped by theory, but rather theories are shaped to conform to actions we have no intention of changing.
M. Spiegel, The Dreaded Comparison
All of us cherish our beliefs. They are, to a degree, self-defining. When someone comes along who challenges our belief system as insufficiently well-based -- or who, like Socrates, merely asks embarrassing questions that we haven't thought of, or demonstrates that we've swept key underlying assumptions under the rug -- it becomes much more than a search for knowledge. It feels like a personal assault.
Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World
To cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.  
Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves.  
George Gordon Noel Byron (1788-1824),[Lord Byron] English romantic poet
The world, we are told, was made especially for man--a presumption not supported by all the facts... Why should man value himself as more than a small part of the one great unit of creation?
John Muir, Naturalist and explorer (1838-1914)
...it is difficult to picture the great Creator conceiving of a program ofone creature (which He has made) using another living creature for purposes of experimentation. There must be other, less cruel ways of obtaining knowledge.
Adlai Stevenson, American statesman
There is no fundamental difference between man and the higher animals intheir mental faculties... The lower animals, like man, manifestly feel pleasure and pain, happiness, and misery.
Charles Darwin (1809-1882)
The difference in mind between man and the higher animals, great as it is, certainly is one of degree and not of kind.
Charles Darwin, naturalist and author (1809-1882) The Descent of Man
Even in the worm that crawls in the earth there glows a divine spark. When you slaughter a creature, you slaughter God.   
Isaac Bashevis Singer, Writer, Nobel laureate (1904-1991)

 

 

 

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