🐷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

K-Wave

There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom,

lovers of honor and lovers of gain.

Plato

The successful forms of life are the parasites,

the ones who bleed their environment to

optimal exploitation, who stunt everything

 by taking a lion's share, who leave

their hosts alive but shriveled.

Adam Johnson

If a group of beings 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

Many of the actions by which men have

become rich are far more harmful to

the community than the obscure crimes of

poor men, yet they go unpunished because

they do not interfere with the existing order.

Bertrand Russell

Do not waste your time on social questions.

What is the matter with the poor is poverty;

what is the matter with the rich is uselessness.

George Bernard Shaw

The inherent vice of capitalism is

the unequal sharing of blessings.

The inherent virtue of socialism

is the equal sharing of miseries.

Winston Churchill

Both optimists and pessimists contributes

to society. The optimist invents the airplane,

the pessimist the parachute.

George Bernard Shaw

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

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

Jo Frederiks

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 stories we tell literally make the world.

If you want to change the world,

you need to change your story.

Michael Margolis

The animal liberation movement is fighting

what is arguably the most entrenched

and widespread form of exploitation

in human history: speciesism.

Melanie Joy

In relation to animals, all people are Nazis;

for the animals it is an eternal Treblinka.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

The greatness of a nation and its moral progress

can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

Mahatma Gandhi