Right to Rescue

Never, never be afraid to do what's right,

especially if the well-being of a person

or animal is at stake. Society's punishments

are small compared to the wounds we inflict

on our soul when we look the other way.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Jo Frederiks

Atrocities are not less atrocities when they occur

in laboratories and are called medical research.

George Bernard Shaw

I abhor vivisection with my whole soul. All

the scientific discoveries stained with innocent

blood I count as of no consequence.

Mahatma Gandhi

What I think about vivisection is that if people

admit that they have the right to take the life

of living beings for the benefit of many,

there will be no limit to their cruelty.

Leo Tolstoy

Run to the rescue with love and peace will follow.

River Phoenix

Vivisection is a social evil because if it

advances human knowledge, it does so

at the expense of human character.

George Bernard Shaw

Whether we exploit animals to eat, wear, to

entertain us, or to learn, the truth of animal

rights requires empty cages, not larger cages.

Tom Regan

The greatest danger to a society is not rebellion,

but the gradual acceptance of injustice.

Gustave Le Bone

One has a moral responsibility

to disobey unjust laws.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

An unjust law is itself a species of violence.

Arrest for its breach is more so.

Mahatma Gandhi

The day may come when the rest of the animal

creation acquire those rights which never

could have been withholden from them

but by the hand of tyranny.

Jeremy Bentham

The problem is that humans have

victimized animals to such a degree

that they are not even considered victims.

They are not considered at all.

Gary Yourofsky

The assumption that animals are without

rights and the illusion that our treatment

of them has no moral significance is a

positively outrageous example of human

crudity and barbarity. Universal compassion

is the only guarantee of morality.

Arthur Schopenhauer

If possessing a higher degree of intelligence

does not entitle one human to use another

for his or her own ends, how can it entitle

humans to exploit non-humans?

Peter Singer

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world;

the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt

the world to himself. Therefore all progress

depends on the unreasonable man.

George Bernard Shaw

Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.

Benjamin Franklin

I have seen firsthand how injustice

gets overlooked when the victims are

powerless or vulnerable, when they have

no one to speak up for them and no means of

representing themselves to a higher authority.

Animals are in precisely that position.

Unless we speak out on their behalf,

abuse and cruelty goes unchallenged.

Desmond Tutu

A basic fact about nonviolent resistence is

that it is based on the conviction that

the universe is on the side of justice.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

There can be no doubt as to which side is right

and which side is wrong, for compassionate

defense of life is a force of good and sadistic

mass destruction of life is a force for evil.

Paul Watson

The arc of the moral universe is long,

but it bends towards justice.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

To know even one life has breathed easier

because you have lived. This is

to have succeeded.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Vivisection is a crime.

Victor Hugo

We are all victims of the violence that animals

suffer... their liberation is also our liberation.

George Bernard Shaw

Why should the law refuse its protection to any

sensitive being? The time will come when

humanity will extend its mantle

over everyone who breathes.

Jeremy Bentham

There is no fundamental difference between man

and animals in their ability to feel pleasure

and pain, happiness and misery.

Charles Darwin

The Measure of Man

The measure of a man is 

what he does with power.

Plato

Human greatness does not lie in wealth

or power but in character and goodness.

Anne Frank

The human being cannot live in a condition

of emptiness for very long: if he is not growing

toward something, he does not merely stagnate;

the pent-up potentialities turn into morbidity

and despair, and eventually into

destructive activities.

Rollo May

No man is more unhappy than he who never

faces adversity. For he is not permitted

to prove himself.

Seneca

The greatness of a man is not in how much

wealth he acquires, but in his integrity

and his ability to affect those

around him positively.

Bob Marley

A life without self-reflection and exploration

is not one worth living.

Socrates

Only a man who knows what it is like to be

defeated can reach down to the bottom of

his soul and come up with the extra

ounce of power it takes to win

when the match is even.

Muhammad Ali

The obedient always thinks of themselves

as virtuous rather than cowardly.

George Carlin

Making the simple complicated is commonplace;

making the complicated simple, awesomely

simple, that's creativity.

Charles Mingus

You are in danger of living a life so comfortable

and soft, that you will die without ever

realizing your true potential.

David Goggins

Excellence in anything increases

your potential in everything.

Joe Rogan

The key to happiness doesn't lay in numbers in a

bank account but in the way we make others feel

and the way they make us feel.

Joe Rogan

The true worth of a man is to be

measured by the objects he pursues.

Marcus Aurelius

The ultimate measure of a man is not

where he stands in moment of comfort

and convenience, but where he stands

at times of challenge and controversy.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

My strength needs no victims.

My strength is my compassion.

Patrik Baboumian

Pursue what's in your heart, and

the universe will conspire to support you.

Rich Roll

We can judge the heart of a man

by his treatment of animals.

Immanuel Kant

Man is an animal with primary instincts

of survival. Consequently his ingenuity

has developed first and his soul afterwards.

The progress of science is far ahead

of man's ethical behavior.

Charlie Chaplin

We should be measured by how we treat

the most vulnerable and powerless

in our society.

Cory Booker

Compassion for animals is intimately associated

with goodness of character, and it may be

confidently asserted that he who is cruel

to animals cannot be a good man.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Man's highest duty is to protect

animals from cruelty.

 

Émile Zola

The opposite of courage is not cowardice,

it is conformity. Even a dead fish

can go with the flow.

Jim Hightower

Whoever fights monsters should see to it that

in the process he does not become a monster.

And if you gaze long enough into an abyss,

the abyss will gaze back into you.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Nature, in her indifference, makes no

distinction between good and evil.

Anatole France

Chaos was the law of nature;

order was the dream of man.

Henry Adams

There comes a time when one must choose

between contemplation and action.

This is called becoming a man.

Albert Camus