Animals in Entertainment

Man is the cruelest animal. At tragedies,

bullfights, and crucifixions he has

so far felt best on Earth; and

when he invented hell for himself,

behold, that was his very heaven.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Jo Frederiks

Tradition will accustom people to any atrocity.

George Bernard Shaw

God loved the birds and invented trees.

Man loved the birds and invented cages.

Jacques Deval

It's clear to anyone with a brain and an ounce

of compassion that marine parks are nothing

more than concrete prisons.

Roger Moore

A good heart will refuse the happiness

built on the misfortune of others.

Saadie

If you want to know where you would have

stood on slavery before the Civil War,

don't look at where you stand on slavery today.

Look at where you stand on animal rights.

Paul Watson

What an amount of suffering and cruel

punishment the poor creatures have to

endure in order to give a few moments

of pleasure to men devoid of thought.

Albert Schweitzer

We know we cannot be kind to animals

until we stop exploiting them -

exploiting animals in the name of science,

exploiting animals in the name of sport,

exploiting animals in the name of fashion,

and yes, exploiting animals in the name of food.

César Chávez

🐮Not Your Mother - Not Your Milk 🐄

We're taught as children that milk

comes from cows when in reality,

milk comes from mothers.

Preacher Lawson

Jo Frederiks

It is my firm conviction that man need take

no milk at all, beyond the mother's

milk that he takes as a baby.

Mahatma Gandhi

The animals you eat are not those who devour

others; you do not eat the carnivorous beasts,

you take them as your pattern. You only

hunger for the sweet and gentle creatures

which harm no one, which follow you,

serve you, and are devoured by you

as the reward of their service.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Man is as much a parasite on the cow

as the tapeworm is on man.

Milan Kundera

We know things about her that no one should

ever know, or want to know, about a fellow

being... the taste, texture and flavor of every

aspect of her despair, degradation and defeat.

We know every detail of what we have forced

her to be - an object to consume and excrete.

What we don't know, what we don't want to

know, is what we must know if we are

to restore our own humanity: who she is.

Joanna Lucas

Man has made the Earth a Hell for animals.

Arthur Schopenhauer

The dairy industry tried to convince you

for 20 years that milk was good for you.

It's a lie, but they tried anyway.

Steve Jobs

Whiteness rests upon a foundational premise:

the definition of white as the norm or standard

for human, and people of color

as the deviation from that norm.

Robin DiAngelo

Humans are the only animals that drink

the milk of the mother of another species.

All other animals stop drinking milk

altogether after weaning.

Michael Klaper

Thou never didst them wrong, nor no man

wrong; And as the butcher takes away the calf

And binds the wretch, and beats him when he

strays, Bearing him to the bloody slaughter-

house, Even so remorseless have they borne him

hence; And as the dam runs lowing up and

down, Looking the way her harmless young

went, And can do nought but wail

her darling's loss.

William Shakespeare

A mother's love does not derive from

the intellect but from the emotions,

in animals just as in humans.

Maimonides

In every living being there is the desire for love.

D.H. Lawrence

We're exploiting female bodies and abusing

the magic of female animals to create milk.

Nathalie Portman

Being vegetarian here also means that we do not

consume dairy and egg products, because they

are products of the meat industry. If we stop

consuming, they will stop producing. Only

collective awakening can create enough

determination for action.

Thich Nhat Hanh

Cows are amongst the gentlest of breathing

creatures; none show more passionate

tenderness to their young when deprived

of them; and, in short, I am not ashamed

to profess a deep love for these quiet creatures.

Thomas de Quincey

What's Wrong With Wool? 🐏

To be vegan is to disagree with cruelty.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Jo Frederiks

If one person is unkind to an animal

it is considered to be cruelty,

but if a lot of people are unkind to animals

(especially in the name of profit)

the cruelty is condoned and will be defended

by otherwise intelligent people.

Ruth Harrison

Veganism is not a diet.

It is a rejection of violence.

Marlana Mazmanian McCliman

Men are the devils of the earth,

and the animals are its tormented souls.

Arthur Schopenhaur

If God condones what we do to animals

- then what does the Devil do?

Gary Yourofsky

Make a habit of two things: to help;

or at least to do no harm.

Hippocrates

Being vegan for me is about trying to live

a life where I'm not contributing to

the cruelty in the world.

Jessica Chastain

I am determined not to kill, not to let others kill,

and not to support any act of killing in the world.

We should consume in such a way that helps

to reduce the suffering of living beings.

And that way we can preserve

compassion in our hearts.

Thich Nhat Hanh

Make ethical choices in what you buy, do and

watch. In a consumer-driven society our

individual choices, used collectively for

the good of animals, can change

the world faster than laws.

Marc Bekoff

The world is not a factory and animals

are not products for our use.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Veganism isn't just about what's on your plate.

Compassion is a lifestyle.

Khaled bin Alwaleed

🐶 Why Love One But Kill and Eat the Other? 🐷

We send one species to the butcher and

give our love and kindness to another

apparently for no reason other than

because it's the way things are.

Melanie Joy

Jo Frederiks

Compassion towards animals is so natural to us,

that only through conditioning could we become

callous towards their suffering and death.

Leo Tolstoy

The soul is the same in all living creatures,

although the body of each is different.

Hippocrates

True compassion is not just an emotional

response but a firm commitment

founded on reason.

Dalai Lama

Animals are my friends...

and I don't eat my friends.

George Bernard Shaw

I wouldn't hurt a cat or a dog - or a chicken

or a cow. And I wouldn't ask someone else

to hurt them for me.

Peter Dinklage

The soul given to each of us is moved by

the same living spirit that moves the Universe.

Albert Einstein

In every living being there is the desire for love.

D.H. Lawrence

Jo Frederiks

If you choose to eat animals…

 you love pets, not animals.

A man who lies to himself, and believes his own

lies becomes unable to recognize truth,

either in himself or in anyone else,

and he ends up losing respect

for himself and for others.

When he has no respect for anyone, he can

no longer love, and in order to divert himself,

having no love in him, he yields to impulses,

indulges in the lowest forms of pleasure.

And it all comes from lying -

lying to others and to yourself.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Now I can look at you in peace;

I don't eat you anymore.

Franz Kafka

My heart broke when I pictured my little dog

experiencing even a second of the pain and

fear that factory-farmed animals feel

their entire lives.

Nikki Glaser

The idea that some lives matter less is

the root of all that is wrong in the world.

Paul Farmer

Why should the law refuse its protection to any

sentient being? The time will come when

humanity will extend its mantle over

everyone who breathes.

Jeremy Bentham

Although I can't stop all cruelty to living

creatures on the planet, I can be kinder

to every living creature in my life.

River Phoenix

Love is life. All,

everything that I understand,

I understand only because I love.

Leo Tolstoy

The animal liberation movement is fighting

what is arguably the most entrenched

and widespread form of exploitation

in human history: speciesism.

Melanie Joy

Selective compassion is a deformity of the mind.

Mohanji

Human beings see oppression vividly

when they are the victims. Otherwise

they victimize blindly and without a thought.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

As custodians of the planet it is our responsibility

to deal with all species with kindness, love and

compassion. What these animals suffer through

human cruelty is beyond understanding.

Please help to stop this madness.

Richard Gere

If you've ever loved a cat or a dog,

or even a human, I hope you'll extend

your compassion to include all animals.

Mike White

God's Creatures 🐄🐑🦃🐓🐠🐖

Earth was created for all of us, not some of us.

Anthony Douglas Williams

It may be suggested by some books that it is not

a sin to kill an animal, but it is written in our

own hearts - more clearly than in any book -

that we should take pity on animals

in the same way as we do on humans.

Leo Tolstoy

For if animals are God's creatures, we have no

absolute rights over them, only the duty to look

after them as God would look after them.

To stand with Jesus is to reject our view of

ourselves as gods and lords of creation. We are

to honor life for the sake of the Lord of the life.

Andrew Linzey

We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation,

and have treated our distant cousins in fur

and feathers so badly that beyond doubt,

if they were able to formulate a religion,

they would depict the Devil in human form.

William Ralph Inge

The Gods created certain kinds of beings

to replenish our bodies; they are the trees

and the plants and the seeds.

Plato

Why should man expect his prayer for mercy

to be heard by what is above him when he

shows no mercy to those under his power?

Pierre Troubetzkoy

Where love is, there God is also.

Mahatma Gandhi

'Thou shall not kill' does not apply to murder of

one's own kind only, but to all living beings;

and this Commandment was inscribed in

the human heart long before it was

proclaimed from Sinai.

Leo Tolstoy

There is no religion without love, and people may

talk as much as they like about their religion,

but if it does not teach them to be kind

to man and animals, it is all a sham.

Anna Sewell

I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians.

Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.

Mahatma Gandhi

The basis of all animal rights should be

the Golden Rule: we should treat them as we

would wish them to treat us, were any

other species in our dominant position.

Christine Stevens

It ill becomes us to invoke in our daily prayers

the blessings of God, the Compassionate,

if we in turn will not practice elemantary

compassion toward our fellow creatures.

Mahatma Gandhi

No God would be a slave master,

a torturer and a killer of his animals, his babies.

If he was, then he would not be God.

He would be the Devil.

Gary Yourofsky

Those who are merciful will be shown mercy

by the Most Merciful. Be merciful to those

on the earth and the One in the heavens

will have mercy on you.

Mishkat al-Masabih: Book 6, Chapter 7, 8:178

My religion is based on truth and non-violence.

Truth is my God. Non-violence is

the means of realising him.

Mahatma Gandhi

Man worships an invisible God

and destroys a visible Nature.

Unaware that this Nature he's destroying

is this God he's worshiping.

Hubert Reeves

Be kind to all creatures.

This is the true religion.

Buddha

Ajar Setiadi

What If... 👽

People say they love animals

and yet harm them nontheless;

I'm glad those people don't love me.

Marc Bekoff

Forgive him, for he believes that the customs

of his tribe are the laws of nature.

George Bernard Shaw

Many people have ideas on how others

should change; few people have ideas

on how they should change.

Leo Tolstoy

Cows scream louder than carrots.

Alan Watts

If you want to know where you would have

stood on slavery before the Civil War,

don't look at where you stand on slavery today.

Look at where you stand on animal rights.

Paul Watson

If you think being a quaker is easy,

you're not doing it right.

Benjamin Lay

I'm not a vegetarian because I love animals;

I'm a vegetarian because I hate plants.

A. Whitney Brown

If we are not prepared to defend a tolerant

society, then the tolerant will be destroyed,

and tolerance with them. We should

therefore claim, in the name of tolerance,

the right not to tolerate the intolerant.

Karl Popper

The longer I live, the more convinced am I that

this planet is used by other planets

as a lunatic asylum.

George Bernard Shaw

If a group of beings from another planet were to

land on Earth - beings who considered themselves

as superior to you as you feel yourself to be

to other animals - would you concede them

the rights over you that you assume

over other animals?

George Bernard Shaw

Jo Frederiks

The basis of all animal rights should be

the Golden Rule: we should treat them

as we would wish them to treat us, were

any other species in our dominant position.

Christine Stevens

The Warrior 🛡️

When evil men plot, good men must plan.

When evil men burn and bomb,

good men must build and bind.

When evil men shout ugly words of hatred,

good men must commit themselves

to the glories of love.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Adversity is the trial of principle.

Henry Fielding

You are in danger of living a life so comfortable

and soft, that you will die without ever

realizing your true potential.

David Goggins

How we treat the vulnerable

is how we define ourselves.

Russell Brand

We can forgive the Arabs for killing our

children. We cannot forgive them for

forcing us to kill their children.

Golda Meir

Don't expect justice where might is right.

Plato

Whoever fights monsters should see to it that

in the process he does not become a monster.

And if you gaze long enough into an abyss,

the abyss will gaze back into you.

Friedrich Nietzsche

People seem good while they are oppressed,

but they only wish to become oppressors in

their turn: life is nothing but a competition

to be the criminal rather than the victim.

Bertrand Russell

I object to violence because when it appears

to do good, the good is only temporary;

the evil it does is permanent.

Mahatma Gandhi

A gem cannot be polished without friction,

nor a man perfected without trials.

Seneca

If you don't stand for something

you will fall for anything.

Malcolm X

If we have to have a choice between being dead

and pitied, and being alive with a bad image,

we'd rather be alive and have the bad image.

Golda Meir

It can ruin you life only if it ruins your character.

Marcus Aurelius

Peace will come when the Arabs will love

their children more than they hate us.

Golda Meir

You're only lonely if you're not there for you.

Phil McGraw

Those who tell the stories rule society.

Plato

There are many causes I would die for.

There is not a single cause I would kill for.

Mahatma Gandhi

War does not determine who is right -

only who is left.

Bertrand Russell

God and Satan alike are essentially human

figures, the one a projection of ourselves,

the other of our enemies.

Bertrand Russell

Human beings have a strong dramatic instinct

toward binary thinking, a basic urge to divide

things into two distinct groups... Good versus

bad... It is simple and intuitive, and also

dramatic because it implies conflict,

and we do it without thinking, all the time.

Hans Rosling

You always become the thing you fight the most.

Carl Jung

You can chain me, you can torture me,

you can even destroy this body,

but you will never imprison my mind.

Mahatma Gandhi

The man who has no inner life

is a slave to his surroundings.

Henri-Frédérik Amiel

When the student is ready the teacher will

appear. When the student is truly ready

the teacher will dissappear.

Lao Tzu

Nothing happens to any man which

he is not formed by nature to bear.

Marcus Aurelius

We are only as strong as we are united,

as weak as we are divided.

J.K. Rowling

At his best, man is the noblest of all animals;

separated from law and justice

he is the worst.

Aristotle

When the rich wage war it's the poor who die.

Jean-Paul Sartre

God grant me the serenity to accept the things

I cannot change, the courage to change

the things I can, and the wisdom

to know the difference.

Reinhold Niebuhr

People are sent to teach you.

If you don't learn you'll keep

making the same mistake.

Learn the lesson and be free.

Mastin Kipp

We don't see things as they are,

we see them as we are.

Anaïs Nin