"True
benevolence or compassion, extends itself through the whole of existence and sympathizes
with the distress of every creature capable of sensation."
-- Joseph Addison
| Many
people feel drawn to advocate for animals because even though they can feel pain
and suffer just as we do, they do not have a way to advocate for their own welfare.
In fact, animals are viewed by many as nothing more than property to be treated
however the owner wishes. This view has created an inhumane situation for billions
of animals that share our world.
-- Robert
Alan |  |
Many years
ago, I was in a Broadway show and I had to wear a fox fur around my shoulders.
One day my hand touched one of the fox's legs. It seemed to be in two pieces.
Then it dawned on me.... her leg had probally been snapped in two by the steel
trap that had caught it.
-- Bea Arthur
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
The
question is not, "Can they reason?" nor, "Can they talk?" but rather, "Can they
suffer?"
~Jeremy Bentham
'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 extensions of the senses we
have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear. They are not
bretheren; 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
"Life
is life's greatest gift. Guard the life of another creature as you would your
own because it is your own. On life's scale of values, the smallest is no less
precious to the creature who owns it than the largest."
-- Lloyd Biggle Jr.
I
don`t hold animals superior or even equal to humans. The whole case for behaving
decently to animals rests on the fact that we are the superior species. We are
the species uniquely capable of imagination, rationality, and moral choice - and
that is precisely why we are under an obligation to recognize and respect the
rights of animals.
-- Brigid Brophy
We
know the poison from the radioactive dump will go down under the ground and leak
into the water. We drink from this water. The animals drink from this water. We're
worried that the animals will become poisoned, and we'll become poisoned in our
turn.
-- Eileen
Kampakuta Brown & The Kungka Tju
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May all that have
life be delivered from suffering.
-- Buddha
When
a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
--Buddha (563?
- 483? B.C.)
"Love
of animals is a universal impulse, a common ground on which all of us may meet.
By loving and understanding animals, perhaps we humans shall come to understand
each other."
-- Louis J. Camuti
 | *
Until we have the courage to recognize cruelty for what it is--whether its victim
is human or animal--we cannot expect things to be much better in this world...
-- Rachel Carson
*
We cannot have peace among men whose hearts delight in killing any living creature.
By every act that glorifies or even tolerates such moronic delight in killing
we set back the progress of humanity.
-- Rachel
Carson |
"The
brute animals have all the same sensations of pain as human beings, and consequently
endure as much pain when their body is hurt; but in their case the cruelty of
torment is greater, because they have no mind to bear them up against their sufferings,
and no hope to look forward to when enduring the last extreme pain."
-- Thomas
Chalmers
*
Killing animals for sport, for pleasure, for adventure, and for hides and furs
is a phenomena which is at once disgusting and distressing. There is no justification
in indulging is such acts of brutality.
- The
Dalai Lama | 
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The love for all
living creatures is the most noble attribute of man.
-- Charles Darwin
There
is no fundamental difference between man and the higher animals in their mental
faculties... The lower animals, like man, manifestly feel pleasure and pain, happiness,
and misery.
-- Charles Darwin (1809-1882)
| I
PLEDGE to live, work and act in a loving, respectful way towards this Earth that
I call home, and towards all who live upon it, every insect, animal, fish, bird,
plant, human and tree....
~ Guy
Dauncey I
pledge ... TO EAT wholesome food produced locally by organic methods, and
to minimize my consumption of food which I know to have involved cruelty to animals
or other environmental harm.
~ Guy
Dauncey |  |
"The time will come
when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon
the murder of men."
-- Leonardo Da Vinci
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*
Killing an animal to make a coat is sin. It wasn't meant to be, and we have no
right to do it.
-- Doris
Day I love
all the shows that encourage people to love, appreciate and help animals. There
are more programs about animals than ever, and that pleases me.
-- Doris
Day I think
everything in my life has led to my animal welfare work.
-- Doris
Day |
Killing
an animal to make a coat is sin. It wasn't meant to be, and we have no right to
do it. A woman gains status when she refuses to see anything killed to be put
on her back. Then she's truly beautiful.
-- Doris
Day
I had
been involved in animal welfare groups, but DDAL presented an opportunity to actually
create and pass legislation aimed at issues which really matter to so many people.
From local spaying and neutering ordinances, to legislation against puppy mills,
to standards to prevent animals from being tested for the sake of a new cosmetic,
we could – and did – make a difference.
-- Doris
Day
for every
dollar spent on spaying and neutering now, $17 is saved and can be used for other
community projects. We work with the animals and the people who love them.
--
Doris Day
I
ask people why they have deer heads on their walls. They always say because it's
such a beautiful animal. There you go. I think my mother is attractive, but I
have photographs of her.
-- Ellen DeGeneres
"You
have to love animals for what they are or leave them alone. The best thing you
can do if you love them is leave them alone and see that other people do too."
-- Pat Derby
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I realized that Eastern
thought had somewhat more compassion for all living things. Man was a form of
life that in another reincarnation might possibly be a horsefly or a bird of paradise
or a deer. So a man of such a faith, looking at animals, might be looking at old
friends or ancestors. In the East the wilderness has no evil connotation; it is
thought of as an expression of the unity and harmony of the universe.
--
Justice William
O. Douglas |
