Animal Warriors

Suffering is suffering, murder is murder

and the more helpless the victim,

the more horrific the crime.

Damien Mander

I am not a trinket

The whole concept of hunting is a very alien one

to me and I cannot comprehend how any person

can derive enjoyment or pleasure from

the suffering of another creature.

Mark Owen

Hunting is a coward's pastime.

In a world of boundless opportunities

for amusement, it's detestable that anyone

would choose to get thrills from killing

others who ask for nothing from life

but the chance to remain alive.

Roger Moore

Anyone who can not go into nature and enjoy it

without killing, should not be allowed entrance.

Henrik Ibsen

Men hunt I think, maybe, because they

have something wrong with their own

equipment and they need something

else to shoot.

Pamela Anderson

My strength needs no victims.

My strength is my compassion.

Patrik Baboumian

Jo Frederiks

Besides love and sympathy, animals exhibit

other qualities connected with the social

instincts which in us would be called moral.

Charles Darwin

If people were superior to animals,

they would take good care of them.

Winnie the Pooh

In whom there is no sympathy for living beings:

know him as an outcast.

Buddha

Man's highest duty is to protect

animals from cruelty.

 

Émile Zola

We cannot have peace among men whose hearts

delight in killing any living creature. By every

act that glorifies or even tolerates such

moronic delight in killing, we set back

the progress of humanity.

Rachel Carson

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

separated from law and justice

he is the worst.

Aristotle

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 cannot have peace among men whose hearts

delight in killing any living creature. By every

act that glorifies or even tolerates such

moronic delight, we set back

the progress of humanity.

Rachel Carson

Once we accept this view of animals - as our

resources - the rest is as predictable

as it is regrettable.

Tom Reagan

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

Friends

True friends are families which you can select.

Audrey Hepburn

Right now you may not be where you intended

to be, but it's where you need to be in order

to get where you want to go.

Steven Aitchison

The most we can hope for is to create

the best possible conditions for success,

then let go of the outcome.

The ride is a lot more fun that way.

Phil Jackson

We are disturbed not by what happens to us,

but by our thoughts about what happens to us.

Epictetus

What you want is deliberately placed

out of reach so that you can become

the person it takes to obtain it.

 

Mastin Kipp

The same wall that keeps out your

disappointment also keeps out the sunlight

of enriching experiences. So let life touch you.

Jim Rohn

The longer you wait, the bigger the prize.

George Bernard Shaw

People grow when they are loved well.

If you want to help others heal,

love them without an agenda.

Mike McHargue

The problem isn't in your choices;

it's in romanticizing a life you haven't lived.

A person always finds an untraveled path

alluring and mysterious. That's why the issue

isn't making the right choice. It's choosing

and deciding which regret you'll live with.

Kierkegaard

You may never know what results come

of your actions, but if you do nothing,

there will be no results.

Mahatma Gandhi

All rivers and some people are crooked

because they follow the path of least resistence.

Napoleon Hill

The only constant in life is change.

Heraclitus

Success is not final, failure is not fatal:

it is the courage to continue that counts.

Winston Churchill

Punk & Animal Rights

Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.

Benjamin Franklin

Do not go where the path may lead. Go instead

where there is no path and leave a trail.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The animal liberation movement is fighting

what is arguably the most entrenched

and widespread form of exploitation

in human history: speciesism.

Melanie Joy

Vegans in Media

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

Never, never be afraid to do what's right,

especially if the well-being of a 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.

The further a society drifts from the truth,

the more it will hate those who speak it.

George Orwell

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

Our grandchildren will ask us one day:

Where were you during the Holocaust

of the animals? What did you do against

those horrifying crimes? We won't be

able to offer the same excuse for

the second time, that we didn't know.

Helmut Kaplan

Animal rights is a part of my everyday life.

When you live by example, you create a

certain level of awareness. People I have

never discussed veganism with are adopting

new habits because they see it.

Joaquin Phoenix

You meet saints everywhere.

They are people behaving decently

in an indecent society.

Kurt Vonnegut

I cannot teach anybody anything.

I can only make them think.

Socrates

The thing that's annoying about there suddenly

being a lot of vegans is the nagging suspicion

that they might be right.

David Mitchell

Kindness and beneficence should be extended

to the creatures of every species, and these

will flow from the breast of a true man,

as streams that issue from the living fountain.

Plutarch

We are not living in a private world of our own.

Everything we say and do and think

has its effect on everything around us.

John Galsworthy

You either approve of violence or you don't,

and nothing on Earth is more violent

or extreme than the meat industry.

Morrissey

First, they ignore you, then they laugh at you,

then they fight you, then you win.

Mahatma Gandhi

We are not living in a private world of our own.

Everything we say and do and think

has its effect on everything around us.

John Galsworthy

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

The treatment of animals by the food industry

is so excessively heartless, and such an affront

to natural justice, that we who by our silence

tacitly consent to these outrages deserve to

be shocked out of our sleep. In the long run,

Mr. Yourofsky may well be doing us

a moral service by confronting us, by

the spectacle of the crimes we participate in.

John Maxwell Coetzee

If it's not good enough for your eyes,

why is it good enough for your stomach?

Gary Yourofsky

The truth will set you free.

But first, it will piss you off.

Gloria Steinem

What's Wrong with Eggs? 🐣

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

We're exploiting female bodies and abusing the

magic of female animals to create eggs and milk.

Nathalie Portman

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

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

Our prime purpose in this life is to help

others. And if you can't help them,

at least don't hurt them.

Dalai Lama

K-Wave

There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom,

lovers of honor and lovers of gain.

Plato

The successful forms of life are the parasites,

the ones who bleed their environment to

optimal exploitation, who stunt everything

 by taking a lion's share, who leave

their hosts alive but shriveled.

Adam Johnson

Many of the actions by which men have

become rich are far more harmful to

the community than the obscure crimes of

poor men, yet they go unpunished because

they do not interfere with the existing order.

Bertrand Russell

Do not waste your time on social questions.

What is the matter with the poor is poverty;

what is the matter with the rich is uselessness.

George Bernard Shaw

The inherent vice of capitalism is

the unequal sharing of blessings.

The inherent virtue of socialism

is the equal sharing of miseries.

Winston Churchill

Both optimists and pessimists contributes

to society. The optimist invents the airplane,

the pessimist the parachute.

George Bernard Shaw

There are two ways through life:

the way of Nature and the way of Grace.

You have to decide which one you'll follow.

Terrence Malick

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

Jo Frederiks

I think there is a connection between the way

we treat animals and the way we treat people

who are at the bottom of the hierarchy.

Angela Davis

The stories we tell literally make the world.

If you want to change the world,

you need to change your story.

Michael Margolis

The animal liberation movement is fighting

what is arguably the most entrenched

and widespread form of exploitation

in human history: speciesism.

Melanie Joy

In relation to animals, all people are Nazis;

for the animals it is an eternal Treblinka.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

The greatness of a nation and its moral progress

can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

Mahatma Gandhi

🌱 The Vegan Community 🌻

People working together in a strong community

with a shared goal and a common purpose

can make the impossible possible.

Tom Vilsack

If you think we can't change the world,

it just means you're not one of those who will.

Jacque Fresco

The time will come when men such as I

will look upon the murder of animals

as they now look upon the murder of men.

Leonardo da Vinci

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

Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked,

in which you can walk with love and reverence.

Henry David Thoreau

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

The key is to keep company only with people who

uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.

Epictetus

All truth passes through three stages.

First, it is ridiculed.

Second, it is violently opposed.

Third, it is accepted as self-evident.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful,

committed citizens can change the world.

Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.

Margaret Mead

A man can live and be healthy without killing

animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat,

he participates in taking life merely

for the sake of his appetite.

And to act so is immoral.

Leo Tolstoy

You meet saints everywhere.

They are people behaving decently

in an indecent society.

Kurt Vonnegut

We can judge the heart of a man

by his treatment of animals.

Immanuel Kant

The thing that's annoying about there suddenly

being a lot of vegans is the nagging suspicion

that they might be right.

David Mitchell

You can judge a man's true character by

the way he treats his fellow animals.

Paul McCartney

I'm so proud to be a vegan.

It's the best decision I have ever made.

For my health and for the world and

for the sake of decency and compassion.

Paul Wesley

Being vegan helped me realize I can say and do

what I believe is right. That's powerful.

Alicia Silverstone

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

Jo Frederiks

We are all victims of the violence that animals

suffer... their liberation is also our liberation.

George Bernard Shaw

My awareness of belonging to the invisible

community of those who strive for truth,

beauty and justice has prevented me

from feelings of isolation.

Albert Einstein

Be the change you want to see in the world.

Mahatma Gandhi

People who say things like "I can't worry

about animals when there are humans

who need help" tend to do f*ck all

to help humans neither...

Kindness is kindness. Simple as that.

Ricky Gervais

My life is my message.

Mahatma Gandhi

We are only as strong as we are united,

as weak as we are divided.

J.K. Rowling

The day the power of love overrules the love

of power, the world will know peace.

Mahatma Gandhi

Jo Frederiks