God's Creatures 🐄🐑🦃🐓🐠🐖

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

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

Ajar Setiadi

How CD Controls Your Life

The indifference, callousness and contempt

that so many people exhibit toward animals

is evil first because it results in great suffering

in animals, and second because it results in

an incalculably great impoverishment

of the human spirit.

Albert Einstein

Jo Frederiks

No man is capable of causing great evil

without thinking he's doing the right thing.

Socrates

Evil comes from a failure to think.

It defies thought for as soon as thought

tries to engage itself with evil and examine

the premises and principles from which it

originates, it is frustrated because

it finds nothing there.

That is the banality of evil.

Hannah Arendt

People seldom do what they believe in.

They do what is convenient.

Bob Dylan

It's troubling when people get upset with vegans

for pointing out the suffering, rather than

getting upset with themselves for causing it.

Jo Tyler

Everything that irritates us about others

can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

Carl Jung

When people meet vegans, they become aware

in that moment that they eat animals.

They become uncomfortable and place

the feeling on the vegan. Their own sense

of mercy and compassion arises and

makes them uneasy. Mercy asks of you

to abstain from this cruelty.

Gary Smith

Those who lack the courage will always

find a philosophy to justify it.

Albert Camus

Psychologically speaking, one may say that

the hypocrite is too ambitious; not only does

he want to appear virtuous before others,

he wants to convince himself... Only

the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.

Hannah Arendt

I cannot conceive of a greater loss

than the loss of one's self-respect.

Mahatma Gandhi

Jo Frederiks

It is not what we eat but what we digest

that makes us strong;

not what we gain but what we save

that makes us rich;

not what we read but what we remember

that makes us learned; and

not what we profess but what we practice

that gives us integrity.

Francis Bacon

Integrity is choosing your thoughts and actions

based on values rather than personal gain.

Chris Karcher

To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest

thing in the world is to act in accordance

with your thinking.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Often, vegan advocates assume that a person's

defensiveness is the result of selfishness or

apathy, when in fact it is much more

likely the result of systematic and

intensive social conditioning.

Melanie Joy

Teaching a child not to step on a caterpillar

is almost as valuable to the child

as it is to the caterpillar.

Bradley Miller

Happiness is when what you think,

what you say and what you do

are in harmony.

Mahatma Gandhi

If a man aspires towards a righteous life,

his first act of abstinence is

from injury to animals.

Albert Einstein

The reward for doing right is mostly

an internal phenomen; self-respect,

dignity, integrity, and self-esteem.

Laura Schlessinger