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Quotations
"The strong do what they can. The weak suffer what they must."
-- Latin
"To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end in life."
-- Robert Louis Stevenson.
"We must fight against the spirit of unconscious cruelty with which we treat the animals.
Animals suffer as much as we do.
True humanity does not allow us to impose such sufferings on them.
It is our duty to make the whole world recognize it.
Until we extend our circle of compassion to all living things, humanity will not find peace."
-- Albert Schweitzer, The Philosophy of Civilization
"Our Task must be to free ourselves by widening our circles of compassion to embrace
all living creatures and the whole of nature in its' entirety."
-- Albert Einstein
HIS COMPLETE QUOTE:
"A human being is part of a whole, call by us the "Universe," a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest- a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its entirety."
-- Albert Einstein.
"I am a voice of the voiceless
through me the dumb shall speak
till the deaf worlds' ear be made to hear
the wrongs of the wordless weak. And I am my brothers' keeper
and I will fight his fight
and speak the word for beast and bird
till the world shall set things right."
-- Ella Wheeler Wilcox, (1850-1919)
"We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion they would depict the devil in human form."
-- William Ralph Inge (1860-1954)
-- Dean, St Pauls' Cathedral - London (1911-1934)
"True benevolence or compassion, extends itself through the whole existence and sympathizes with the distress of every creature capable of sensation."
-- Joseph Addison (1672-1719)
"The love for all living creatures is the noblest attribute of man."
-- Charles Darwin (1809-1882)
"I could not have slept tonight if I had left that helpless little creature to perish on the ground."
Abraham Lincoln's reply to chiding friends who were delayed when Lincoln returned a fledging to its' nest.
"Compassion for animals is intimately connected with goodness
of character and it may be confidently asserted that he who
is cruel to animals cannot be a good man,"
-- Arthur Schopenhauer
"Show me the enforced laws of a State for the prevention of cruelty to animals and I in turn will give you a correct estimate of the refinement, enlightenment, integrity and equity of that Commonwealth's people."
-- L.T. Danshiell (1914-)
"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
"Starvation, world hunger, cruelty, waste, wars - we must make a statement against these things.
Vegetarianism is my statement. And I think it is a strong one."
-- Isaac Bashevis Singer
In all the round world of Utopia there is no
meat. There used to be, but now we cannot stand the
thought of slaughterhouses. And it is impossible to
find anyone who will hew a dead ox or pig. I can
still remember as a boy the rejoicings over the
closing of the last slaughterhouse."
-- H. G. Wells (1886-1946) from A Modern Utopia
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