“ We Are The Living Graves Of Murdered Beasts We are the living graves of murdered beasts Slaughtered to satisfy our appetites We never pause to wonder at our feasts If animals, like men, can possibly have rights We pray on Sundays that we may have light To guide our footsteps on the path we tread We're sick of war We do not want to fight The thought of it now fills our hearts with dread And yet we gorge ourselves upon the dead Like carrion crows we live and feed on meat Regardless of the suffering and pain We cause by doing so… ”
- George Bernard Shaw- Copy
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“ ZOOLOGY, n. The science and history of the animal kingdom, including its king, the House Fly ("Musca maledicta"). The father of Zoology was Aristotle, as is universally conceded, but the name of its mother has not come down to us. ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
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“ HIPPOGRIFF, n. An animal (now extinct) which was half horse and half griffin. The griffin was a compound creature, half lion and half eagle. The hippogriff was, therefore, only one quarter eagle, which is $2.50 in gold. Zoology is full of surprises. ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
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“ To those of you who received honours, awards and distinctions, I say well done. And to the C students, I say you, too, can be president of the United States. ”
- George W. Bush- Copy
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“ Man is the only creature in the animal kingdom that sits in judgment on the work of the Creator and finds it bad - including himself and Nature. ”
- Elbert Hubbard- Copy
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“ Ever occur to you why some of us can be this much concerned with animals suffering? Because government is not. Why not? Animals don't vote. ”
- Paul Harvey- Copy
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“ The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. ”
- Mahatma Gandhi- Copy
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“ If it's true that men are such beasts, this must account for the fact that most women are animal lovers. ”
- Doris Day- Copy
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“ Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal. ”
- Charles Darwin- Copy
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“ It isn't true that convicts live like animals: animals have more room to move around. ”
- Mario Vargas Llosa- Copy
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“ You can always tell about somebody by the way they put their hands on an animal. ”
- Betty White- Copy
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“ Man is rated the highest animal, at least among all animals who returned the questionnaire. ”
- Robert Brault- Copy
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“ If a man aspires towards a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from injury to animals. ”
- Leo Tolstoy- Copy
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“ Auschwitz begins wherever someone looks at a slaughterhouse and thinks: they're only animals. ”
- Theodor W. Adorno- Copy
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“ I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contain'd, I stand and look at them long and long, They do not sweat and whine about their condition, They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins, They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God, Not one is dissatisfied, not one is demented with the mania of owning things… ”
- Walt Whitman- Copy
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“ We can't change the world for animals without changing our ideas about animals. We have to move from the idea that animals are things, tools, machines, commodities, resources here for our use to the idea that as sentient beings they have their own inherent value and dignity. ”
- Andrew Linzey- Copy
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“ I told the good Father that if he and I were going in the future to some wonderful Elysian Field and the animals were not going to go anywhere, that was all the more reason to give them a little better shake in the one life they did have. ”
- Cleveland Amory- Copy
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“ It is my opinion that everything must be based on a simple idea. And it is my opinion that this idea, once we have finally discovered it, will be so compelling, so beautiful, that we will say to one another, yes, how could it have been any different. ”
- John Wheeler- Copy
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“ Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals. He sets them to work, he gives back to them the bare minimum that will prevent them from starving, and the rest he keeps for himself. ”
- George Orwell- Copy
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