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Saving one animal won't change the world,

but it will change the world for that one animal.

You can tell a lot about people

by the way they treat their pets.

Frank Sonnenberg

The more I learn about people,

the more I like my dog.

Mark Twain

Dogs love their friends and bite their enemies,

quite unlike people, who are incapable of pure

love and always have to mix love and hate.

Sigmund Freud

It is more important to prevent suffering,

rather than sit to contemplate the evils

of the universe.

Buddha

If we could live happy and healthy lives

without harming others, why wouldn't we?

Pam Ahern

Love all. Serve all. Help ever. Hurt never.

Sathya Sai Baba

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

Create all the happiness you are able to create;

remove all the misery you are able to remove.

Every day will allow you, will invite you to

add something to the pleasure of others,

or to diminish something of their pains.

Jeremy Bentham

I marvelled at how two souls - two completely

different species - could make each other

so happy. If you were kind to animals,

they repaid that kindness thousandfold.

People disappointed; animals never did.

Alan Brennert

When a man loves cats, I am his friend and

comrade without further introduction.

Mark Twain

The beauty you see in me is a reflection of you.

Rumi

To know even one life has breathed easier

because you have lived. This is

to have succeeded.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Do your little bit of good where you are;

it's those little bits of good put together

that overwhelm the world.

Desmond Tutu

We can judge the heart of a man

by his treatment of animals.

Immanuel Kant

Dogs are our link to paradise.

Milan Kundera

 

There is no happiness like that of being loved

by your fellow-creatures, and feeling that

your presence is an addition to their comfort.

Charlotte Brontë

To heal is to touch with love that

which we previously touched with fear.

Stephen Levine

The heart of a good man is

the sanctuary of God in this world.

Suzanne Curchod

Until one has loved an animal a part

of one's soul remains unawakened.

Anatole France

The dog is between the child and the angel

in terms of mentality, heart and feeling.

Anthony of Curtis

Someone Not Something

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

The beauty you see in me

is a reflection of you.

Rumi

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

Animals are not ours to eat, wear,

experiment on, use for entertainment

or for any exploitative purpose.

Sharon Gannon

Once we accept this view of animals - as our

resources - the rest is as predictable

as it is regrettable.

Tom Reagan

Animals are my friends...

and I don't eat my friends.

George Bernard Shaw

The soul is the same in all living creatures,

although the body of each is different.

Hippocrates

I don’t want to eat anything that had a mother.

Fred Rogers

I don't see why someone should lose their life

just so you can have a snack.

Russell Brand

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

There is no fundamental difference between man

and animals in their ability to feel pleasure

and pain, happiness and misery.

Charles Darwin

Jo Frederiks

We've objectified certain animals so much

that we refer to them as 'livestock'.

'Stock' that just so happens to be alive.

An inconvenience that they were

even alive to begin with.

Ed Winters

The pain that we cause is the cause of our pain.

Leif Erikson

Jo Frederiks

Every bit of meat, chicken or fish you eat,

every bit of leather or fur you wear,

has come from an animal that has

been tortured, pulled away from their

family and brutally killed.

Lewis Hamilton

Only those who are capable of loving strongly

can also suffer great sorrow, but this same

necessity of loving serves to counteract

their grief and heals them.

Leo Tolstoy

Jo Frederiks

One should not kill a living being,

nor cause anyone to be killed,

nor should one incite another to kill.

Do not injure any being,

either strong or weak, in the world.

Buddha

The world is not a factory and

animals are not products for our use.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Work, Work, Work...

My hunger is not for success,

it is for excellence.

Mike Krzyzewski

Don't climb mountains so that people

can see you. Climb mountains so

that you can see the world.

David McCullough Jr.

Don't pray for lighter burdens,

but for stronger backs.

Buddha

All anyone really requires to start a successful

career is a sound mind, a healthy body,

and a genuine desire to be as much service

as possible to as many as possible.

Napoleon Hill

No matter how isolated you are and how

lonely you feel, if you do your work truly

and conscientiously, unknown friends

will come and seek you.

Carl Jung

God sells us all things at the price of labor.

Leonardo da Vinci

Your work is going to fill a large part of your life,

and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do

what you believe is great work. And

the only way to do great work

is to love what you do.

Steve Jobs

The quality of your work reflects the quality

of your character. Focus on excellence in

all you do, and success will follow.

Epictetus

The worst thing that we can do as women

is not stand up for each other, and this is

something we can practice every day,

no matter where we are and what we do

- women sticking up for other women,

choosing to protect and celebrate each other

instead of competing or critizing each other.

Amal Clooney

Recognize that your birth was a response to

the world's requirements, not solely

your own wishes.

Epictetus

Be an Activist

I am of the opinion that my life belongs to

the whole community and as long as I live,

it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can.

George Bernard Shaw

We must take sides. Neutrality helps

the oppressor, never the victim.

Silence encourages the tormentor,

never the tormented.

Elie Wiesel

What you do makes a difference,

and you have to decide what kind

of difference you want to make.

Jane Goodall

The world will not be destroyed by those

who do evil, but by those who watch

 them without doing anything.

Albert Einstein

There are many noteworthy examples of

ordinary evil in every culture and country

around the globe, but in terms of preventable

evil I am hard pressed to find any examples

that approach those systematically perpetrated

by humans against the members of other species.

Lawrence Pope

It is more important to prevent animal suffering,

rather than sit to contemplate the evils

of the universe.

Buddha

The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression

and cruelty by the bad people but

the silence over that by the good people.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

- Make a clear intention - how do I want to contribute to this world?

- Take a leap of faith. Don't let fear determine your actions.

- Personal branding & communication skills to reach as many as possible.

- Plant seeds. You never know what they will grow into.

- Use your strengths. Direct them towards your mission.

- Have a positive vibe. Nudge and be inclusive but always maintain a clear message.

You can also commit injustice

by doing nothing.

Marcus Aurelius

Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.

Voltaire

Do your little bit of good where you are;

it's those little bits of good put together

that overwhelm the world.

Desmond Tutu

Jo Frederiks

A good person will resist an evil system

with his whole soul.

Mahatma Gandhi

Think about what your skills are, and what you

enjoy doing, or what you're good at and

employ those specific skills to make

the world a better place.

Jo-Anne McArthur

It always seems impossible,

until it's done.

Nelson Mandela

An active minority always wins out

over a passive majority.

Robert Thompson

Our lives no longer belong to us alone:

they belong to all those who

need us desperately.

Eli Wiesel

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 a higher authority.

Animals are in precisely that position.

Unless we speak out on their behalf,

abuse and cruelty goes unchallenged.

Desmond Tutu

Terror becomes total when it becomes

independent of all opposition; it rules

supreme when nobody any longer stands

in its way. If lawfulness is the essence of

non-tyrannical government and lawlessness

is the essence of tyranny, then terror is

the essence of totalitarian domination.

Hannah Arendt

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

If you are neutral in situations of injustice,

you have chosen the side of the oppressor.

Desmond Tutu

People who say it cannot be done

should not interrupt those who are doing it.

George Bernard Shaw

Those who love peace must learn to organize

as effectively as those who love war.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

There are many causes I would die for.

There is not a single cause I would kill for.

Mahatma Gandhi

People working together in a strong community

with a shared goal and a common purpose

can make the impossible possible.

Tom Vilsack

May our broken hearts fuel us to fix our world.

Cloe Wade

The difference between what we do and what we

are capable of doing would suffice to solve

most of the world's problems.

Mahatma Gandhi

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful,

committed citizens can change the world;

indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

Margaret Mead

One has a moral responsibility

to disobey unjust laws.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Culture eats strategy for breakfast.

Peter Drucker

What you want to ignite in others

must first burn inside yourself.

Charlotte Brontë

Just one candle can light another and can light

thousands of other candles, so one heart

illuminates another heart and can

illuminate thousands of other hearts.

Leo Tolstoy

Many people, especially ignorant people,

want to punish you for speaking the truth,

for being correct, for being you.

Never apologize for being correct,

or for being years ahead of your time.

If you're right and you know it,

speak your mind.

Even if you are a minority of one,

the truth is still the truth.

Mahatma Gandhi

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

Be the change you want to see in the world.

Mahatma Gandhi

Certified 'Humane' & Other Lies

The meat industry spends hundreds of millions of

dollars lying to the public about their product.

But no amount of false propaganda can

sanitise meat. The facts are absolutely clear.

Eating animals is bad for human health,

catastrophic for the environment and

a living nightmare for animals.

Chrissie Hynde

Jo Frederiks

Ignorance is not a simple lack of knowledge

but an active aversion to knowledge,

the refusal to know, issuing from cowardice,

pride or laziness of mind.

Karl Popper

Those who see deeply into the nature of reality

often struggle to belong, because awareness

separates them from the illusions

that comfort others.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Most people are not seeking truth - they are

searching for comfort in illusions.

Friedrich Nietzsche

As with any violent ideology, the populace must

be shielded from direct exposure to the victims,

lest they begin questioning the system or their

participation in it. This truth speaks for itself:

why else would the meat industry go to such

lengths to keep its practices invisible?

Melanie Joy

We live in imaginary, virtual worlds created by

corporations that profit from our deception.

Chris Hedges

Truth has to be repeated constantly,

because Error also is being preached all the time,

and not just by a few, but by the multitude. In

the Press, Encyclopaedias, in Schools and

Universities, everywhere Error holds sway,

feeling happy and comfortable in

the knowledge of having Majority on its side.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Truth never damages a cause that is just.

Mahatma Gandhi

The truth is that people are brainwashed into

thinking that it's normal to consume animals.

They are so uncomfortable with confronting

what happens to those animals because

they are part and parcel of that cruelty.

Juliet Gellatley

Unless and until you are prepared to look

at the whole truth; and wherever it may go,

if you want to look the other way or

if you want to play favourites, then

somewhere along the line you're going to

find out that you're messing with divine justice.

Jordan Maxwell

COMFORTABLE LIES

Without ever committing an act of outright

evil ourselves, we collude with it

through our own apathy.

J.K. Rowling

What an amount of suffering the poor creatures

have to endure in order to give a few moments

of pleasure to men devoid of thought.

Albert Schweitzer

Jo Frederiks

If slaughterhouses had glass walls,

everyone would be vegetarian.

Paul McCartney

Think occasionally of the suffering of which

you spare yourself the sight.

Albert Schweitzer

To examine whether something is 'humane',

first determine whether you would

want it done to you.

Andrea Kladar

The horrifying things that are happening

to animals in order for you to keep

eating meat is inhuman.

Lewis Hamilton

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 a higher authority.

Animals are in precisely that position.

Unless we speak out on their behalf,

abuse and cruelty goes unchallenged.

Desmond Tutu

There is no right way to do the wrong thing.

Harold S. Kushner

Highway to Hell

The greatest danger of lies is not that they

replace truth, but that they destroy our

ability to recognize truth at all,

leaving a society lost without direction.

Hannah Arendt

When the suffering of another creature causes

you to feel pain, do not submit to the initial

desire to flee from the suffering one, but

on the contrary, come closer, as close

as you can to him who suffers,

and try to help.

Leo Tolstoy

No man chooses evil because it is evil;

he only mistakes it for happiness,

the good he seeks.

Mary Wollstonecraft

🦊 Cruelty-Free Shopping 🐇

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

Behind every fur, there is a story.

It is a bloody, barbaric story.

Mary Tyler Moore

There is no kind way to rip the skin of animal's

backs. Anyone who wears any fur shares

the blame for the torture and gruesome deaths

of millions of animals each year.

Natalie Imbruglia

Jo Frederiks

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

Wearing cosmetics that were tested on

animals makes you ugly on the inside.

Ricky Gervais

Every time you spend money you're casting

a vote for the kind of world you want.

Anna Lappé

To be vegan is to disagree with cruelty.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Being vegan for me is about trying to live a life

where I'm not contributing to

the cruelty in the world.

Jessica Chastain

It's medieval to me that the fashion industry

still kills millions of animals a year.

Stella McCartney

A good heart will refuse the happiness

built on the misfortune of others.

Saadie

Animals run no risk of going to hell.

They are already there.

Victor Hugo

Kill To Dress

People speak sometimes about the "bestial"

cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust

and offensive to beasts, no animal could

ever be so cruel as man, so artfully, so

artistically cruel.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Man has made the Earth a hell for animals.

Arthur Schopenhauer

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

Veganism is not a diet.

It is a rejection of violence.

Marlana Mazmanian McCliman

I think that killing to make 

or eat things is horrific.

Alan Cumming

The world is not a factory and animals

are not products for our use.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Each one of us makes a difference every day

by the choices we make. When billions start

making ethical decisions, we can put

the world on the right track.

Jane Goodall