🐵 Animals Like Us 😀

The question is not, "Can they reason?"

nor "Can they talk?" but, "Can they suffer?"

Jeremy Bentham

I don't care whether they are capable of

thinking; all I care about is that they

are capable of suffering!

Jeremy Bentham

All beings tremble before violence. All fear

death. All love life. See yourself in others.

Then whom can you hurt?

What harm can you do?

Buddha

There is no fundamental difference between man

and animals in their ability to feel pleasure

and pain, happiness and misery.

Charles Darwin

If you reach for a gun and shoot a bird - just like

that, for fun, for 'sport' - read these few sentences.

The birds we call turtledoves choose one partner.

For life. But when one of them is gone...

the other remains. Alone. In an immense

sadness that is difficult to describe.

David Attenborough

Animals are the main victims of history, and

the treatment of domesticated animals

in industrial farms is perhaps

the worst crime in history.

Yuval Noah Harari

The animals of the world exist for their own

reasons. They were not made for humans

any more than black people were made

for white, or women created for men.

Alice Walker

Animals suffer as much as we do.

True humanity does not allow us

to impose such sufferings on them.

Until we extend our circle of compassion to

all living beings, humanity will not find peace.

Albert Schweizer

Our task must be to free ourselves...

by widening our circle of compassion to

embrace all living creatures and the whole

of nature and its beauty.

Albert Einstein

The idea that we have the right to inflict suffering

and death on other sentient beings for the trivial

reasons of palate pleasure and fashion is,

without a doubt, one of the most arrogant and

morally repugnant notions in the history

of human thought.

Gary L. Francione

Pick Me Vegans & Ex Vegans

Few people are capable of expressing with

equanimity opinions which differ from

the prejudices of their social environment.

Most people are even incapable of

forming such opinions.

Albert Einstein

We are haunted by the horror of what we do

to animals, but we are equally haunted by

the knowledge of how unhaunted others are.

J.M. Coetzee

Life is a process of becoming,

a combination of states we have to go through.

Anaïs Nin

If you don't stick to your values when

they're being tested, they're not values:

they're hobbies.

Jon Stewart

The hottest places in hell are reserved for

those who, in times of great moral crisis,

maintain their neutrality.

Dante Alighieri

People's opinions are mainly designed to make

them feel comfortable; truth, for most people,

is a secondary consideration.

Bertrand Russell

The superior man thinks of virtue;

the common man thinks of comfort.

Confucius

When you see a good man, try to emulate

his example, and when you see a bad man,

search yourself for his faults.

Confucius

Cowards can never be moral.

Mahatma Gandhi

All rivers and some people are crooked because

they follow the path of least resistence.

Napoleon Hill

To be yourself in a world that is constantly

trying to make you something else is

the greatest accomplishment.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We only become what we are by the radical

and deep-seated refusal of that which

others have made of us.

Jean Paul Sartre

The individual has always had to struggle

to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe.

If you try it, you will be lonely often,

and sometimes frightened. But no price

is too high to pay for the privilege

of owning yourself.

Rudyard Kipling