🐷Friends 💞 Not Food 🐖

Animals are my friends...

and I don't eat my friends.

George Bernard Shaw

When I see bacon, I see a pig, I see a little friend,

and that's why I can't eat it.

Paul McCartney

A dog looks up to man,

and a cat looks down on man,

but a pig will look man right in the eye

and see his equal.

Winston Churchill

The idea that some lives matter less is

the root of all that is wrong in the world.

Paul Farmer

Now I can look at you in peace;

I don't eat you anymore.

Franz Kafka

The beauty you see in me

is a reflection of you.

Rumi

If you've ever loved a cat or a dog,

or even a human, I hope you'll extend

your compassion to include all animals.

Mike White

We send one species to the butcher and give

our love and kindness to another

apparently for no reason other

than because it's the way things are.

Melanie Joy

The soul is the same in all living creatures,

although the body of each is different.

Hippocrates

Jo Frederiks

Ethics is nothing else than

reverence for life.

Albert Schweitzer

What we call love is in its essence

reverence for life.

Albert Schweitzer

In every living being there is the desire for love.

D.H. Lawrence

The greater your capacity for love,

the more beauty you find in the world.

Jane Smiley

As we let our own light shine, we unconsciously

give other people permission to do the same.

Nelson Mandela

The love for all living creatures

is the most noble attribute of man.

Charles Darwin

Our prime purpose in this life is to help others.

And if you can't help them, at least

don't hurt them.

Dalai Lama

Consciousness & A.I. 🤖

Emotion is the chief source of consciousness.

There is no change from darkness to light or

from inertia to movement without emotion.

Carl Jung

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

Gods always behave like the people

who created them.

Zora Neale Hurston

The femme fatale expresses woman's ancient

and eternal control of the sexual realm.

The specter of the femme fatale stalks

all of men's relationships with women.

Camille Paglia

Computers will overtake humans with AI

within the next 100 years. When that happens,

we need to make sure the computers

have goals aligned with ours.

Stephen Hawking

Humanity's true moral test, its fundamental

test... consists of its attitude towards those

who are at its mercy: animals.

Milan Kundera

True empathy is not self-focused but

other-oriented. Instead of making humanity

the measure of all things, we need to evaluate

other species by what they are.

Frans de Waal

Compassion is the signature

of higher consciousness.

Amit Ray

If a group of beings were to land on Earth -

beings who considered themselves as superior

to you as you feel yourself to be to other animals

- would you concede them the rights over you

that you assume over other animals?

George Bernard Shaw

When dealing with people, remember you are

not dealing with creatures of logic,

but creatures of emotion.

Dale Carnegie

The Creature includes animals within its moral

codes, but is thwarted and deeply frustrated

when seeking to be included within the moral

codes of humanity. It learns that regardless

of its own inclusive moral standards, the human

circle is drawn in such a way that both it

and the other animals are excluded from it.

Carol J. Adams

The basis of all animal rights should be

the Golden Rule: we should treat them

as we would wish them to treat us, were

any other species in our dominant position.

Christine Stevens

The question is not, "Can they reason?"

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

Jeremy Bentham

The destiny of civilized humanity depends more

than ever on the moral forces it is capable

of generating.

Albert Einstein

Man worships an invisible God and destroys

a visible Nature. Unaware that this Nature

he's destroying is this God he's worshiping.

Hubert Reeves