An excellent compilation of quotes from Tribe of Heart [www.tribeofheart.com]
• "The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be measured by the way in which its animals are treated." Mahatma Gandhi • "The lower animals are our brethren. I include among them the lion and the tiger. We do not know how to live with these carnivorous beasts and poisonous reptiles because of our ignorance. When man learns better, he will learn to befriend even these. Today he does not even know how to befriend a man of a different religion or from a different country." Mahatma Gandhi • "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 • "How smart do animals have to be before killing them constitutes murder?" Carl Sagan • "In nothing does man, with his grand notions of heaven and charity, show forth his innate, wild animalism more clearly than in his treatment of his brother beasts. From the shepherd with his lambs to the red-handed hunter, it is the same: no recognition of rights - only murder in one form or another." John Muir • "It can truly be said: Men are the devils of the earth, and the animals are the tormented souls." Arthur Schopenhauer • "Don't do nothing because you can't do everything. Do Something. Anything." Sasha • "The question is not, Can they reason? nor Can they talk? but, Can they suffer?" Jeremy Bentham |
• "I ask people why they have deer heads on their walls. They always say because it's such a beautiful animal. There you go. I think my mother is attractive, but I have photographs of her." Ellen DeGeneres
• "People often say that humans have always eaten animals, as if this is a justification for continuing the practice. According to this logic, we should not try to prevent people from murdering other people, since this has also been done since the earliest of times." Isaac Bashevis Singer
• "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
• "The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans anymore than black people were made for whites or women for men." Alice Walker
• "Nonviolence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages." Thomas Edison
• "Humans are part of the web of life. What we do to the planet, what we do to other species, and what we do to other people, we end up doing to ourselves." John Robbins
• "A person is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred, that of plants and animals as that of other men and women, and when one devotes oneself helpfully to all life that is in need of help." Albert Schweitzer
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