Earth was created for all of us, not some of us.
Anthony Douglas Williams
It may be suggested by some books that it is not
a sin to kill an animal, but it is written in our
own hearts - more clearly than in any book -
that we should take pity on animals
in the same way as we do on humans.
Leo Tolstoy
For if animals are God's creatures, we have no
absolute rights over them, only the duty to look
after them as God would look after them.
To stand with Jesus is to reject our view of
ourselves as gods and lords of creation. We are
to honor life for the sake of the Lord of the life.
Andrew Linzey
We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation,
and have treated our distant cousins in fur
and feathers so badly that beyond doubt,
if they were able to formulate a religion,
they would depict the Devil in human form.
William Ralph Inge
If God condones what we do to animals -
then what does the Devil do?
Gary Yourofsky
The Gods created certain kinds of beings
to replenish our bodies; they are the trees
and the plants and the seeds.
Plato
Why should man expect his prayer for mercy
to be heard by what is above him when he
shows no mercy to those under his power?
Pierre Troubetzkoy
Where love is, there God is also.
Mahatma Gandhi
'Thou shall not kill' does not apply to murder of
one's own kind only, but to all living beings;
and this Commandment was inscribed in
the human heart long before it was
proclaimed from Sinai.
Leo Tolstoy
The wolf will live with the lamb, and the leopard
will lie down with the goat; the calf and
young lion and fatling will be together,
and a little child will lead them.
Isaiah 11:6
Thy will be done on earth,
as it is in Heaven.
Matthew 6:10
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
I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians.
Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.
Mahatma Gandhi
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
It ill becomes us to invoke in our daily prayers
the blessings of God, the Compassionate,
if we in turn will not practice elemantary
compassion toward our fellow creatures.
Mahatma Gandhi
No God would be a slave master,
a torturer and a killer of his animals, his babies.
If he was, then he would not be God.
He would be the Devil.
Gary Yourofsky
Those who are merciful will be shown mercy
by the Most Merciful. Be merciful to those
on the earth and the One in the heavens
will have mercy on you.
Mishkat al-Masabih: Book 6, Chapter 7, 8:178
My religion is based on truth and non-violence.
Truth is my God. Non-violence is
the means of realising him.
Mahatma Gandhi
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
Be kind to all creatures.
This is the true religion.
Buddha
