We need another and a wiser and perhaps a more mystical concept of animals. Remote from universal nature and living by complicated artifice, man in civilization surveys the creature through the glass of his knowledge and sees thereby a feather magnified and the whole image in distortion. We patronize them for their incompleteness, for their tragic fate for having taken form so far below ourselves. And therein do we err.For the animal shall not be measured by man. In a world older and more complete than ours, they move finished and complete, gifted with the extension of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear. They are not brethren, they are not underlings: they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendour and travail of the earth.Henry Beston
The Outermost House, 1928
As long as Man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings, he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seed of murder and pain cannot reap joy and love.PythagorasMen dig their graves with their own teeth, and die more by those instruments than by all weapons of their enemies.Pythagoras
Support your right to arm bears.A missionary was walking in Africa when he heard the ominous padding of a lion behind him. "Oh Lord," prayed the missionary, "Grant in Thy goodness that the lion walking behind me is a good Christian lion." And then in the silence that followed, the missionary heard the lion praying too: "Oh Lord," he prayed. "We thank thee for the food which we are about to receive."Cleveland Amory
- Cleveland Amory
As often as Herman had witnessed the slaughter of animals and fish, he always had the same thought: in their behaviour toward creatures, all men were Nazis. The smugness with which man could do with other species as he pleased exemplified the most extreme racist theories, the principle that might is right.Isaac Bashevis SingerEnemies, A Love Story (1972)
A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon, but not about a man pushing a button that releases a bomb.W. H. Auden
Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.Albert EinsteinVivisection must be unequivocally condemned and completely abolished in all its aspects – medical, military, industrial and cosmetological.Professor Dr. Lea Franken
Medicine is, essentially, a science of observation, in which experimentation is only a minor part of the medical investigation. But the worst of it is that this minor part has been contaminated by a gross error – that of having taken animals as models for humans.Professor Dr. Pietro Croce
I abhor vivisection with my whole soul. All the scientific discoveries stained with innocent blood I count as of no consequence.Mahatma Gandhi
Ask the experimenters why they experiment on animals, and the answer is: ‘Because the animals are like us.’ Ask the experimenters why it is morally OK to experiment on animals, and the answer is: ‘Because the animals are not like us.’ Animal experimentation rests on a logical contradiction.Professor Charles R. Magel(1980)
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
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 HarrisonAnimal Machines, 1964
The presence of those seeking the truth is infinitely to be preferred to the presence of those who think they've found it.Sir Terry Pratchett
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