The question is not, "Can they reason?"
nor "Can they talk?" but, "Can they suffer?"
Jeremy Bentham
If a being suffers, there can be no moral
justification for refusing to take that
suffering into consideration.
Peter Singer
All beings tremble before violence. All fear
death. All love life. See yourself in others.
Then whom can you hurt?
What harm can you do?
Buddha
There is no fundamental difference between man
and animals in their ability to feel pleasure
and pain, happiness and misery.
Charles Darwin
Animals are the main victims of history, and
the treatment of domesticated animals
in industrial farms is perhaps
the worst crime in history.
Yuval Noah Harari
The animals of the world exist for their own
reasons. They were not made for humans
any more than black people were made
for white, or women created for men.
Alice Walker
Animals suffer as much as we do.
True humanity does not allow us
to impose such sufferings on them.
Until we extend our circle of compassion to
all living beings, humanity will not find peace.
Albert Schweizer
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
The idea that we have the right to inflict suffering
and death on other sentient beings for the trivial
reasons of palate pleasure and fashion is,
without a doubt, one of the most arrogant and
morally repugnant notions in the history
of human thought.
Gary L. Francione
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