Animals in Entertainment

Man is the cruelest animal. At tragedies,

bullfights, and crucifixions he has

so far felt best on Earth; and

when he invented hell for himself,

behold, that was his very heaven.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Jo Frederiks

Tradition will accustom people to any atrocity.

George Bernard Shaw

Once we accept this view of animals - as our

resources - the rest is as predictable

as it is regrettable.

Tom Reagan

God loved the birds and invented trees.

Man loved the birds and invented cages.

Jacques Deval

It's clear to anyone with a brain and an ounce

of compassion that marine parks are nothing

more than concrete prisons.

Roger Moore

A good heart will refuse the happiness

built on the misfortune of others.

Saadie

If you want to know where you would have

stood on slavery before the Civil War,

don't look at where you stand on slavery today.

Look at where you stand on animal rights.

Paul Watson

What an amount of suffering and cruel

punishment the poor creatures have to

endure in order to give a few moments

of pleasure to men devoid of thought.

Albert Schweitzer

We know we cannot be kind to animals

until we stop exploiting them -

exploiting animals in the name of science,

exploiting animals in the name of sport,

exploiting animals in the name of fashion,

and yes, exploiting animals in the name of food.

César Chávez

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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

We're at war with nature. If we win, we're lost.

Hubert Reeves

Many of us feel so removed from fish and other

animals from the sea that we don't think of

these beings as having lives that matter to them.

Their suffering remains invisible

even when it's in plain sight.

Melanie Joy

No one will protect what they don't care about,

and no one will care about what

they have never experienced.

David Attenborough

The question is not, "Can they reason?"

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

Jeremy Bentham

Jo Frederiks

Animals can communicate quite well.

And they do. And generally speaking,

the are ignored.

Alice Walker

Man can no longer live for himself alone.

We must realize that all life is valuable

and that we are united to all life.

Albert Schweitzer

The greater your capacity for love,

the more beauty you find in the world.

Jane Smiley

The most ethical diet just so happens to be

the most environmentally sound diet and

just so happens to be the healthiest.

Michael Greger

Why are you so afraid of change? Nothing

in this world can be without change. Only

one rule is constant: do not do anything

inhumane to others.

Marcus Aurelius

Answer me, you who believe that animals are 

only machines. Has nature arranged for this

animal to have all the machinery of feelings

only in order for it not to have any at all?

Voltaire

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

I realized as I watched him fight for breath,

that his life was as important to him

as mine is to me.

Paul McCartney

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

Happiness is in your ability to love others.

Leo Tolstoy

We're all members of the animal kingdom.

Leave your brothers and sisters in the sea.

Prince

Even in the worm that crawls in the earth

there glows a divine spark. When you

slaughter a creature, you slaughter God.

Isaac Bashevis Singer