The question is not, Can they reason?
nor Can they talk? but rather,
Can they suffer?
Jeremy Bentham
Answer me, you who believe that animals are
only machines. Has nature arranged for this
animal to have all the machinery of feelings
only in order for it not to have any at all?
Voltaire
No one will protect what they don't care about,
and no one will care about what
they have never experienced.
David Attenborough
True empathy is not self-focused but other-
oriented. Instead of making humanity
the measure of all things, we need to
evaluate other species by what they are.
Frans de Waal
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
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