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While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered beasts, how can
we expect any ideal conditions on the earth?
George Bernard Shaw
After years of research and experience I am convinced that man must be
faithful to the natural law and depend simply and entirely on the
great vegetal mother... Anatomically speaking, as witness the nature
of his teeth and intestines, man is meant to be vegetarian... The use
of animal flesh and animal products is speculative and hazardous.
George Ohsawa
(who cured himself of 'incurable' illness)
'Thou shalt not kill' means exactly what it says; no more, no less. It
certainly does not mean 'Thou shalt not kill except
for the pleasure of eating the bodies of the slain, or drinking the
milk intended by nature for the slaughtered calf, the vain desire to
adorn the human body with the fur, feathers or skin of another animal;
or because it is a very profitable business to breed or catch animals
for the experimental laboratory where they will be starved, burned,
gassed, poisoned, mutilated and otherwise tortured and then killed.
Eva Batt
The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the
way its animals are treated.
Mahatma Gandhi
Man, do not pride yourself on your superiority to animals: they are
without sin, and you, with your greatness, defile the earth by your
appearance on it, and leave the traces of your foulness after you...
Dostoevsky
I am sometimes asked 'Why do you spend so much of your time and money
talking about kindness to animals when there is so much cruelty to
men?' I answer, 'I am working at the roots.'
George T. Angell
Blessed are ye who abstain from all things gotten by bloodshed and
death, and fulfil all righteousness: blessed are ye, for ye shall
attain to Beatitude.
Jesus
from the Gospel of the Holy Twelve
The practice of religion involves, as the first principle, a loving,
compassionate heart for all creatures.
Buddha
I think that eating meat or fish is a denial of all ideals, even of
all religions... We are all God's creatures - that we pray to God for
mercy and justice while we continue to eat the flesh of animals that
are slaughtered on our account is not consistent.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
Jewish vegetarian & Nobel prizewinner
Why do you belie the earth, as if it were unable to feed and nourish
you? Does it not shame you to mingle murder and blood with her
beneficient fruits?
But for the sake of some little mouthful of flesh, we deprive a soul
of the sun and light and of that proportion of life and time it had
been born into the world to enjoy.
Plutarch
He who takes pity even on a sparrow and spares its life, God will be
merciful to him on the Day of Judgement.
Mohammed from The Koran
If man's aspirations towards right living are serious... he will first
abstain from animal food because... its use is simply immoral as it
requires the performance of an act which is contrary to moral
feeling - killing.
Leo Tolstoy
...the deer, the horse, the great eagle, these are our brothers.
Chief Seattle
From street, from cage and from kennel,
From stable and zoo, the wail
Of my tortured kin proclaims the sin
Of the mighty against the frail.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
The animals which the Great Spirit put here must go, says the Wasichu
(White Man). The 'man-made' animals are allowed to stay - at least
until they are shipped out to be butchered. The terrible arrogance of
the White Man, making himself something more than God... You are
buying and selling death.
Lame Deer
Sioux medicine man
Hold fast to vegetarianism and abstain from taking life. Benefit
living creatures and human beings. Cultivate goodness and happiness.
Yin-chih-wen
A Confucian-Taoist treatise
The question is not, can they reason? Nor, can they talk? But can they
suffer?
Jeremy Bentham
All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good people do
nothing.
Edmund Burke
If we can really love all life then we see that the butterfly has as
much right to live and survive as we do... It is our task in life to
make this planet a beautiful place to be, that is why we are here. I
know we can do it, I know we will.
Helen Caldicott, MD
Come nigh little bird with your half-stretched wings - within you I
behold choirs of angels, and the Lord himself in vista.
Edward Carpenter
For hundreds of thousands of years, the stew in the pot has brewed
hatred and resentment that is difficult to stop. If you wish to know
why there are disasters of armies and weapons in the world, listen to
the piteous cries from the slaughter-house at midnight.
Ancient Chinese Verse
Universal Kinship
Yes, do as you would be done by ~ and not to the dark man and the
white woman alone, but to the sorrel horse and the grey squirrel as
well; not to creatures of your own anatomy alone, but to all
creatures. You cannot go high enough, low enough nor far enough to
find those whose bowed and broken beings will not rise up at the
coming of the kindly heart, or whose souls will not darken at the
touch of inhumanity. Do to beings below as you would be done by beings
above you.
They are our fellow mortals. They came out of the same mysterious womb
of the past, are passing through the same dream, and are destined to
the same melancholy end as we ourselves. Let us be kind and merciful
to them.
J. Howard Moore
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