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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

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

It is more important to prevent suffering,

rather than sit to contemplate the evils

of the universe.

Buddha

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

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

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

We can judge the heart of a man

by his treatment of animals.

Immanuel Kant

The more I learn about people,

the more I like my dog.

Mark Twain

Dogs are our link to paradise.

Milan Kundera

 A woman is the full circle.

Within her is the power to create,

nurture and transform.

Diane Mariechild

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

Right to Rescue

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.

Jo Frederiks

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

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

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

The greatest danger to a society is not rebellion,

but the gradual acceptance of injustice.

Gustave Le Bone

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

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

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world;

the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt

the world to himself. Therefore all progress

depends on the unreasonable man.

George Bernard Shaw

Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.

Benjamin Franklin

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

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

Vivisection is a crime.

Victor Hugo

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

How to Talk to Meat-Eaters

I cannot teach anybody anything.

I can only make them think.

Socrates

The object of life is not to be on the side

of the majority, but to escape finding

oneself in the ranks of the insane.

Marcus Aurelius

When dealing with people, remember you are

not dealing with creatures of logic,

but creatures of emotion.

Dale Carnegie

Never argue with stupid people,

they will drag you down to their level

and then beat you with experience.

Mark Twain

The superior man thinks of virtue;

the common man thinks of comfort.

Confucius

The best way to convince someone is by

making him realize that what you speak

came from his own mind.

Alan Watts

The most difficult subjects can be explained

to the most slow-witted man if he has not

formed any idea of them already; but

the simplest thing cannot be made clear

to the most intelligent man if he is firmly

persuaded that he knows already,

without a shadow of doubt,

what is laid before him.

Leo Tolstoy

Hypocrisy in anything whatever may deceive

the cleverest and most penetrating man,

but the least wide-awake of children

recognizes it, and is revolted by it,

however ingeniously it may be disguised.

Leo Tolstoy

I don't want to belong to any club

that would accept me as a member.

Groucho Marx

The very man who has argued you down,

will sometimes be found, years later,

to have been influenced by what you said.

C.S. Lewis

People may hear your words,

but they feel your attitude.

John C. Maxwell

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

then they fight you, then you win.

Mahatma Gandhi

The changes in our life must come from

the impossibility to live otherwise than to

the demands of our conscience, not from our

mental resolution to try a new form of life.

Leo Tolstoy

In order for the truth to be heard, it must

be spoken with love. No matter how wise

and true a spoken word is it will not be

conveyed to someone if it's spoken in anger.

Leo Tolstoy

The Measure of Man

The measure of a man is 

what he does with power.

Plato

Human greatness does not lie in wealth

or power but in character and goodness.

Anne Frank

The human being cannot live in a condition

of emptiness for very long: if he is not growing

toward something, he does not merely stagnate;

the pent-up potentialities turn into morbidity

and despair, and eventually into

destructive activities.

Rollo May

No man is more unhappy than he who never

faces adversity. For he is not permitted

to prove himself.

Seneca

The greatness of a man is not in how much

wealth he acquires, but in his integrity

and his ability to affect those

around him positively.

Bob Marley

A life without self-reflection and exploration

is not one worth living.

Socrates

Only a man who knows what it is like to be

defeated can reach down to the bottom of

his soul and come up with the extra

ounce of power it takes to win

when the match is even.

Muhammad Ali

The obedient always thinks of themselves

as virtuous rather than cowardly.

George Carlin

Making the simple complicated is commonplace;

making the complicated simple, awesomely

simple, that's creativity.

Charles Mingus

You are in danger of living a life so comfortable

and soft, that you will die without ever

realizing your true potential.

David Goggins

Excellence in anything increases

your potential in everything.

Joe Rogan

The key to happiness doesn't lay in numbers in a

bank account but in the way we make others feel

and the way they make us feel.

Joe Rogan

The true worth of a man is to be

measured by the objects he pursues.

Marcus Aurelius

The ultimate measure of a man is not

where he stands in moment of comfort

and convenience, but where he stands

at times of challenge and controversy.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

My strength needs no victims.

My strength is my compassion.

Patrik Baboumian

Pursue what's in your heart, and

the universe will conspire to support you.

Rich Roll

We can judge the heart of a man

by his treatment of animals.

Immanuel Kant

Man is an animal with primary instincts

of survival. Consequently his ingenuity

has developed first and his soul afterwards.

The progress of science is far ahead

of man's ethical behavior.

Charlie Chaplin

We should be measured by how we treat

the most vulnerable and powerless

in our society.

Cory Booker

Compassion for animals is intimately associated

with goodness of character, and it may be

confidently asserted that he who is cruel

to animals cannot be a good man.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Man's highest duty is to protect

animals from cruelty.

 

Émile Zola

The opposite of courage is not cowardice,

it is conformity. Even a dead fish

can go with the flow.

Jim Hightower

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

Nature, in her indifference, makes no

distinction between good and evil.

Anatole France

Chaos was the law of nature;

order was the dream of man.

Henry Adams

There comes a time when one must choose

between contemplation and action.

This is called becoming a man.

Albert Camus

🌍 Know Your Why 💚

He who has a why to live for

can bear almost any how.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Eating for me is how you proclaim your beliefs

three times a day. Three times a day I remind

myself that I value life and I do not want to

cause pain to or kill other living beings.

That is why I eat the way I do.

Nathalie Portman

There comes a time when one must take

a position that is neither safe, nor popular,

but he must take it because conscience

tells him it is right.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Nothing will benefit human health and

increase the chances for survival of life on Earth

as much as the evolution to a vegan diet.

If the whole world adopts veganism,

it can change the destiny of humankind.

Albert Einstein

Be nice to the environment.

Be nice to animals.

Be nice to people.

If you do that, you will leave

a mark on the world.

Enock Maregesi

While we ourselves are the living graves of

murdered animals, how can we expect

any ideal living conditions on this earth?

George Bernard Shaw

I show my love for animals by not eating them

or participating in any business that profits

directly from their exploitation.

Mayim Bialik

We change the world not by what we say or do

but as a consequence of what we have become.

David R. Hawkins

Be the change you want to see in the world.

Mahatma Gandhi

My own view is that being vegan is not an end

 in itself, but a means towards reducing both

human and animal suffering and leaving

a habitable planet to future generations.

Peter Singer

If people understood that for two minutes

of pleasure, there is a lifetime of suffering.

Khaled bin Alwaleed

Once I learned about how animals are treated

in our industrial food system, I didn't

want any part of it.

Billie Eilish

If you don't have it in your heart to help animals,

then just leave them alone and do no harm.

Katie Cleary

This is why I am vegan;

I don't support the barbaric treatment

and slaughtering of millions of animals.

I don't support this industry.

Lewis Hamilton

When people ask me why I don't eat animal

products I say, 'Because they are unhealthy

and they are the product of a violent and

inhumane industry.'

Casey Affleck

I'm vegan because I refuse to consume

the despair and suffering of animals.

Alan Cumming

If you look at the climate crisis or the violence 

of our food system and feel helpless, thinking 

'I wish there was something I could do'

- you can. Right now.

Joaquin Phoenix

Being vegan for me is about trying to live a life

where I'm not contributing to the cruelty

in the world.

Jessica Chastain

🦊 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