Animals Like Us 🐵

The question is not, "Can they reason?"

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

Jeremy Bentham

Humanity's true moral test, its fundamental

test... consists of its attitude towards those

who are at its mercy: animals.

Milan Kundera

There is no fundamental difference between man

and animals in their ability to feel pleasure

and pain, happiness and misery.

Charles Darwin

Over the long term, symbiosis is more useful

than parasitism. More fun, too.

Larry Wall

We become what we behold. We shape

our tools and then our tools shape us.

Marshall McLuhan

Man is by nature a political animal.

Aristotle

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

Harm no other beings.

They are just your brothers and sisters.

Buddha

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