🍖 Make the Connection 🐑

Compassion is ethical intelligence:

it is the capacity to make connections

and the consequent urge to act

to relieve the suffering of others.

Will Tuttle

I stopped eating meat some 50 years ago

when I looked at the pork chop on my plate

and thought: this represents fear, pain, death.

Jane Goodall

Jo Frederiks

Don't talk of love and peace when you

have a dead animal on your plate.

Socrates

I am determined not to kill, not to let others kill,

and not to support any act of killing in the world.

We should consume in such a way that helps

to reduce the suffering of living beings.

And that way we can preserve

compassion in our hearts.

Thich Nhat Hanh

Non-violence, which is the quality of the heart,

cannot come by an appeal to the brain.

Mahatma Gandhi

Until he extends his circle of compassion

to include all living creatures,

man will not himself find peace.

Albert Schweitzer

There is no religion without love, and people may

talk as much as they like about their religion,

but if it does not teach them to be kind

to man and animals, it is all a sham.

Anna Sewell

Compassion, in which all ethics must take root,

can only attain its full breadth and depth

if it embraces all living creatures and

does not limit itself to mankind.

Albert Schweitzer

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

When a child kills an animal for fun,

we fear mental illness.

When an adult with the capacity to reason

does it, we call it 'sport'.

Seth MacFarlane

Compassion is an unstable emotion.

It needs to be translated into action,

or it withers.

Susan Sontag

What do they know - all these scholars, all these

philosophers, all the leaders of the world -

about such as you? They have convinced

themselves that man, the worst transgressor

of all the species, is the crown of creation.

All other creatures were created merely to

provide him with food, pelts,

to be tormented, exterminated.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Animals and humans suffer and die alike.

Violence causes the same pain, the same

spilling of blood, the same stench of death,

the same arrogant, cruel, and brutal taking

of life. We don't have to be part of it.

Dick Gregory

Violence begins with the fork.

Mahatma Gandhi

The line separating good and evil passes

not through states, nor between political

parties either - but right through

every human heart.

Alexandr Solzhenitsyn

I felt that if I were to continue to live

in this world I had to do what I could

to reduce the suffering around me,

or at the very least, not to add to it....

I gave up eating meat.

I have not eaten it since.

Nick Cave

The Measure of Humanity

Humanity's true moral test, its fundamental

test... consists of its attitude towards those

who are at its mercy: animals.

Milan Kundera

The true measure of any society can be found

in how it treats its most vulnerable members.

Mahatma Gandhi

The animals you eat are not those who devour

others; you do not eat the carnivorous beasts,

you take them as your pattern. You only

hunger for the sweet and gentle creatures

which harm no one, which follow you,

serve you, and are devoured by you

as the reward of their service.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

He who feeds a hungry animal,

feeds his own soul.

Charlie Chaplin

God loved the birds and invented trees.

Man loved the birds and invented cages.

Jacques Deval

How we treat the vulnerable is

how we define ourselves as a species.

Russell Brand

Injustice anywhere is a threat

to justice everywhere.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

I shall

Gather up

All the lost souls

That wander this earth

All the ones that are alone

All the ones that are broken

All the ones that never really fitted in

I shall gather them all up

And together we shall find our home.

Athey Thompson

There are two ways through life:

the way of Nature and the way of Grace.

You have to decide which one you'll follow.

Terrence Malick

Now I can look at you in peace;

I don't eat you anymore.

Franz Kafka

I think there is a connection between the way

we treat animals and the way we treat people

who are at the bottom of the hierarchy.

Angela Davis

The greatness of a nation and its moral progress

can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

Mahatma Gandhi

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

We should be measured by how we treat

the most vulnerable and powerless

in our society.

Cory Booker

The greatness of humanity is not in being human,

but in being humane.

Mahatma Gandhi

In the end, only three things matter:

how much you loved, how gently you

lived, and how gracefully you let go

of things not meant for you.

Buddha