"Peace and the survival of life on Earth as we know it are threatened by human
activities that lack a commitment to humanitarian values. Destruction of nature and
natural resources results from ignorance, greed, and lack of respect for the Earth's
living things."
--The Dalai Lama (Greenpeace)
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"When you believe there is no love in the world, just gaze into the eyes of the cat
in your lap or the dog on your hearth."
--Welsh Poem
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"Whenever people say, 'We mustn't be sentimental,' you can take it they are about to
do something cruel. And if they add, 'We must be realistic,' they mean they are
going to make money out of it."
--Brigid Brophy
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"The time will come when public opinion will no longer tolerate amusements based on
the mistreatment and killing of animals. The time will come, but when?"
--Albert Schweitzer
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"It is perfectly obvious to me that the whole of animal life, from the saints to the
slugs, is equal in the sight of nature, and that our duty towards our fellow creatures is
no less than it is to our fellow humans."
--Jan
Morris, Review of Animals' Rights:
A Symposium, September 1979
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"If a man aspires to a righteous life, his first act is abstinence of injury to
animals."-Tolstoy
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"Until one has loved an animal, a part of one's soul remains unawakened."
--Anatole France
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"You ask people why they have deer heads on the wall. 'Because it's such a beautiful
animal.' There you go. I think my mother's attractive, but I have photographs of
her."
--Ellen DeGeneres, Actress
"On Location: Women of the Night"
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"...it is difficult to picture the great Creator conceiving of a program of one
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
"Putting First Things First"
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"For too long we have occupied ourselves with responding to the consequences of
cruelty and abuse and have neglected the important task of building up an ethical system
in which justice for animals is regarded as the norm rather than the exception. Our only
hope is to put our focus on the education of the young."
--John Hoyt
Lecture, Humane Society of the U.S.
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When you rise in the morning, form a resolution to make the day a happy one for a fellow
creature."
--Sydney Smith
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"Much of the indifference, apathy, and even cruelty which we see has its origin in
the false education given the young concerning the rights of animals, and their duty
towards them."--J. Todd Ferrier
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