Some Good Animal Rights Quotes:

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"As long as people will shed the blood of innocent creatures there can be no peace, no liberty, no harmony between people. Slaughter and justice cannot dwell together."
--Isaac Bashevis Singer

"Until he extends the circle of compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace."
--Albert Schweitzer

"Until we have the courage to recognize cruelty for what it is--whether its victim is human or animal--we cannot expect things to be much better in this world... 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

"We are the living graves of murdered beasts, slaughtered to satisfy our appetites. How can we hope in this world to attain the peace we say we are so anxious for?"
--George Bernard Shaw (Living Graves, published 1951)

"Atrocities are not less atrocities when they occur in laboratories and are called medical research."
--George Bernard Shaw (playwright, Nobel 1925)

"It is strange to hear people talk of Humanitarianism, who are members of societies for the prevention of cruelty to children and animals, and who claim to be God-loving men and women, but who, nevertheless, encourage by their patronage the killing of animals merely to gratify the cravings of appetite."
--Otoman Zar-Adusht Ha'nish (1844-1936)

"Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own."
--Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)

"Animals are my friends...and I don't eat my friends."
--George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

"Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet."
--Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

"People often say that humans have always eaten animals, as if this is a justification for continuing the practice. According to this logic, we should not try to prevent people from murdering other people, since this has also been done since the earliest of times."
--Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904- )

"If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be vegetarian. We feel better about ourselves and better about the animals, knowing we're not contributing to their pain."
--Paul (1942- ) and Linda McCartney

"Suppose that tomorrow 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 they have the right to treat you as you treat the animals you breed, keep and kill for food?"
--John Harris (1946- )

"A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite. And to act so is immoral."
--Leo Tolstoy

"For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seed of murder and pain cannot reap joy and love."
--Pythagoras (6th century BC)

"As long as there are slaughterhouses, there will be battlefields."
--Leo Tolstoy, author

"I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and 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 (1452-1519)

"While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered beasts, how can we expect any ideal conditions on this earth?"
--George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

"Those who, by their purchases, require animals to be killed have no right to be shielded from the slaughterhouse or any other aspect of the production of the meat they buy. If it is distasteful for humans to think about, what can it be like for the animals to experience it?"
--Peter Singer

"My dream is that people will come to view eating an animal as cannibalism."
--Henry Spira

"Awareness is bad for the meat business. Conscience is bad for the meat business. Sensitivity to life is bad for the meat business. DENIAL, however, the meat business finds indispensable."
--John Robbins, Diet for a New America

"The beef industry has contributed to more American deaths than all the wars of this century, all natural disasters, and all automobile accidents combined. If beef is your idea of `real food for real people,' you'd better live real close to a real good hospital."
--Neal D. Barnard, M.D., President, Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, Washington, D.C.

"The human body has no more need for cows’ milk than it does for dogs’ milk, horses’ milk, or giraffes’ milk."
--Michael Klaper, MD, author of Vegan Nutrition: Pure & Simple

"The quiet conscience is an invention of the devil."
--Dr.Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965)

"Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight."

-Dr. Albert Schweitzer

"The important thing is not to stop questioning."
--Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

"The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated"
--Gandhi, the Moral Basis of Vegetarianism

"And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor political, nor popular, but he must take it because his conscience tells him that it is right."
--Martin Luther King Jr.

"The question is not, Can they reason? nor, Can they talk? But rather, Can they suffer?"
--Jeremy Bentham, 19th century Philosopher, Oxford University

"How long can you hear someone crying - how long can you hear someone dying - before you ask yourself why?"
--Jackson Browne

"Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages."
--Thomas A. Edison (1847-1931)

"The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for whites or women for men."
--Alice Walker

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