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
The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die.
As well the minds which are prevented from
changing their opinions; they cease to be mind.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Do your little bit of good where you are;
it's those little bits of good put together
that overwhelm the world.
Desmond Tutu
Why are you so afraid of change? Nothing
in this world can be without change. Only
one rule is constant: do not do anything
inhumane to others.
Marcus Aurelius
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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