Wednesday, August 6, 2025

🦀What About Crustaceans? 🦞🦐

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

Sunday, August 3, 2025

Right to Rescue

Never, never be afraid to do what's right,
especially if the well-being of person
or animal is at stake. Society's punishments
are small compared to the wounds we inflict
on our soul when we look the other way.

Martin Luther King, Jr.


Atrocities are not less atrocities when they occur
in laboratories and are called medical research.

George Bernard Shaw


I abhor vivisection with my whole soul. All
the scientific discoveries stained with innocent
blood I count as of no consequence.

Mahatma Gandhi


Run to the rescue with love and peace will follow.
River Phoenix


Vivisection is a social evil because if it
advances human knowledge, it does so
at the expense of human character.

George Bernard Shaw


Whether we exploit animals to eat, wear, to
entertain us, or to learn, the truth of animal
rights requires empty cages, not larger cages.

Tom Regan


Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.
Adam Smith


One has a moral responsibility
to disobey unjust laws.

Martin Luther King, Jr.


An unjust law is itself a species of violence.
Arrest for its breach is more so.

Mahatma Gandhi


The day may come when the rest of the animal
creation acquire those rights which never
could have been withholden from them
but by the hand of tyranny.

Jeremy Bentham


The problem is that humans have
victimized animals to such a degree
that they are not even considered victims.
They are not considered at all.

Gary Yourofsky


What I think about vivisection is that if people
admit that they have the right to take the life
of living beings for the benefit of many,
there will be no limit to their cruelty.

Leo Tolstoy


The assumption that animals are without
rights and the illusion that our treatment
of them has no moral significance is a
positively outrageous example of human
crudity and barbarity. Universal compassion
is the only guarantee of morality.

Arthur Schopenhauer


If possessing a higher degree of intelligence
does not entitle one human to use another
for his or her own ends, how can it entitle
humans to exploit non-humans?

Peter Singer


I have seen firsthand how injustice
gets overlooked when the victims are
powerless or vulnerable, when they have
no one to speak up for them and no means of
representing themselves to higher authority.
Animals are in precisely that position.
Unless we speak out on their behalf,
abuse and cruelty goes unchallenged.

Desmond Tutu


A basic fact about nonviolent resistence is
that it is based on the conviction that
the universe is on the side of justice.

Martin Luther King, Jr.


There can be no doubt as to which side is right
and which side is wrong, for compassionate
defense of life is a force of good and sadistic
mass destruction of life is a force for evil.

Paul Watson


The arc of the moral universe is long,
but it bends towards justice.

Martin Luther King, Jr.


To know even one life has breathed easier
because you have lived. This is
to have succeeded.

Ralph Waldo Emerson


We are all victims of the violence that animals
suffer... their liberation is also our liberation.

George Bernard Shaw


Why should the law refuse its protection to any
sensitive being? The time will come when
humanity will extend its mantle
over everyone who breathes.

Jeremy Bentham


There is no fundamental difference between man
and animals in their ability to feel pleasure
and pain, happiness and misery.

Charles Darwin

Saturday, August 2, 2025

Who We Really Are

I have always felt that the way we treat animals
is a pretty good indicator of the compassion
we are capable of for the human race.

Ali MacGraw


10 percent of any population is cruel,
no matter what, and 10 percent is merciful,
no matter what, and the remaining
80 percent can be moved in any direction.

Susan Sontag


When all are guilty, no one is;
and the very magnitude of the crime
becomes the best excuse for doing nothing.

Hannah Arendt

Tsunami of Indifference

Evil thrives on apathy
and cannot exist without it.

Hannah Arendt


Any of us has the capacity for atrocity - 
just as each of us has the capacity for heroism.

David Mamet


Your beliefs become your thoughts,
your thoughts become your words,
you words become your actions,
your actions become your habits,
your habits become your values,
your values become your destiny.

Mahatma Gandhi


A long habit of not thinking a thing is wrong,
gives it a superficial appearance of being right.

Thomas Paine


Only with awareness of carnism
can we reclaim our freedom of choice;
without awareness, there is no free choice.

Melanie Joy


The systematic torture of sentient beings,
whatever the pretext and in whatever form,
cannot achieve anything more than it
already has: to show us what is the lowest
point of debasement man can reach.

Joaquin Phoenix


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


There are no conditions to which a person cannot
grow accustomed, especially if he sees that
everyone around him lives in the same way.

Leo Tolstoy
Monsters exist, but they are too few in number
to be truly dangerous. More dangerous
are the common men, the functionaries
ready to believe and to act
without asking questions.

Primo Levi


Whoever does wrong, wrongs himself;
whoever does injustice, does it to himself,
making himself evil.

Marcus Aurelius


The individual has always had to struggle
to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe.
If you try it, you will be lonely often, and
sometimes frightened. But no price is too high
to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.

Rudyard Kipling


Both optimists and pessimists contributes
to society. The optimist invents the airplane,
the pessimist the parachute.

George Bernard Shaw


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



Life is no brief candle to me.
It is a sort of splendid torch
which I have got a hold of for the moment and
I want to make it burn as brightly as possible
before handing it on to future generations.

George Bernard Shaw


A good heart will refuse the happiness
built on the misfortune of others.

Saadie


The whole universe is sum up in the human
being. Devil is not a monster waiting to
trap us. He is a voice inside. Look for your
devil in yourself, not in the others. Don't
forget that the one who knows his devil,
knows his God.

Shams Tabrizi