| Quotable Quotes Adams, Doug (Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy): “It is an important and popular fact that things are not always what they seem.For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much - the wheel, New York, war and so on - whilst all the dolphins had ever done is muck about in the water having a good time; But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man - for precisely the same reasons.” Adormo, Theodor (Jewish Philosopher): “Auschwitz begins whenever someone looks at a slaughterhouse & thinks: they're only animals.” Anonymous: “The reason a dog has so many friends is that he wags his tail instead of his tongue.” Avot, Pirke: “You are not required to complete the task of repairing the world, neither are you free to abstain from it.” Barker, Bob: “We must educate the public. The average person has no idea of what's going on in factory farms, in laboratories, circuses, roadside zoos or rodeos.” Barnard, Neal, MD: “If beef is your idea of 'real food for real people,' you’d better live real close to a real good hospital.” Barry, Dave: “Dogs feel very strongly that they should always go with you in the car, in case the need should arise for them to bark violently at nothing right in your ear.” Barry, Dave: “Dogs need to sniff the ground; it's how they keep abreast of current events. The ground is a giant dog newspaper, containing all kinds of late-breaking dog news items, which, if they are especially urgent, are often continued in the next yard.” Benchley, Robert: “A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down.” Billings, Josh: “A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself.” Bonaparte, Napoleon: “Do you know what astonished me most in the world? The inability of force to create anything. In the long run the sword is always beaten by the spirit. Soldiers usually win battles and generals get the credit for them. You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war. If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.” Brady, Danny: “We are fighting until every cage is empty, not until every cage is comfortable.” Brophy, Brigid: “Humans should enjoy their own lives, not taking others'.” Bruce, Derek: “In order to keep a true perspective of one's importance, everyone should have a dog that will worship him and a cat that will ignore him.” Burke, Edmund: “All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” Cheeke, Peter (PhD, Contemporary Issues in Animal Agriculture 2004 Textbook): “Do we, as humans, having an ability to reason and to communicate abstract ideas verbally and in writing, and to form ethical and moral judgements using the accumulated knowledge of the ages, have the right to take the lives of other sentient organisms, particularly when we are not forced to do so by hunger or dietary need, but rather do so for the somewhat frivolous reason that we like the taste of meat?” Cousteau, Jacques-Yves: “There is about as much educational benefit to be gained in studying dolphins in captivity as there would be studying mankind by only observing prisoners held in solitary confinement.” Cromwell, James: “If any kid ever realized what was involved in factory farming they would never touch meat again. I was so moved by the intelligence, sense of fun and personalities of the animals I worked with on Babe that by the end of the film I was a vegetarian.” Da Vinci, Leonardo: “I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will look on the murder of animals as they now look on the murder of men.” Diamond, Harvey: “You put a baby in a crib with an apple and a rabbit. If it eats the rabbit and plays with the apple, I'll buy you a new car.” Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov: “Love the animals. God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled. Don't trouble it, don't harass them, don't deprive them of their happiness, don't work against God's intent.” Edison, Thomas: “Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.” Einstein, Albert: “If a man aspires towards a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from injury to animals.” Einstein, Albert: “Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances for survival of life on earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.” Franklin, Benjamin: “So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for everything one has a mind to do.” Friedrich, Bruce: “Feeding plants to animals then eating the animals is like filtering water through a sewer then drinking it.” Gandhi said of all the social movements: “First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you win.” Gandhi: “The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.” Gere, Richard: “People get offended by animal rights campaigns. It's ludicrous. It's not as bad as mass animal death in a factory.” Godrey, Pat, 44, an inspector at Tyson's Springdale, Ark: “Would you go out to a pasture with a chicken, cut him up, then drop him into a fresh manure pile and eat him? That's what the product is like coming from chicken plants today.” Grady, Wayne: “When a chimpanzee mother comforts her frightened infant, we say that she is behaving like a human; when a human being resorts to insane violence, we say that he is acting like an animal. Perhaps it's the other way around....” Harrison, Ruth (in Animal Machines): “If one person is unkind to an animal it is considered to be cruelty, but where a lot of people are unkind to animals, especially in the name of commerce, the cruelty is condoned, and, once large sums of money are at stake, will be defended to the last by otherwise intelligent people.” Krishnamurti: “It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.” Lee, Stanislaw: “Each snowflake in an avalanche pleads not guilty.” Mead, Margaret: “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.” MLK Jr: “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.” Nestle, Marion: “The standard four food groups are based on American agricultural lobbies. Why do we have a milk group? Because we have a National Dairy Council. Why do we have a meat group? Because we have an extremely powerful meat lobby.” Ralph, William, Reverend: “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.” Robbins, John: “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.” Schweitzer, Albert: “Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.” Schweitzer, Albert: “Very little of the great cruelty shown by men can really be attributed to cruel instinct. Most [All?] of it comes from thoughtlessness or inherited habit; The roots of cruelty, therefore, are not so much strong as widespread; But the time must come when inhumanity protected by custom and thoughtlessness will succumb before humanity championed by thought.. Let us work that this time may come.” Shakespeare: “He is a heavy eater of beef. Methinks it doth harm to his wit.” Shaw, George Bernard: “Animals are my friends and I don't eat my friends.” Singer, Peter: “[T]hose who claim to care about the well-being of human beings and the preservation of our environment should become vegetarians for that reason alone. They would thereby increase the amount of grain available to feed people everywhere, reduce pollution, save water and energy, and cease contributing to the clearing of forests; moreover, since a vegetarian diet is cheaper than one based on meat dishes, they would have more money available to devote to famine relief, population control, or whatever social or political cause they thought most urgent. [W]hen non-vegetarians say that “human problems come first,” I cannot help wondering what exactly it is that they are doing for human beings that compels them to continue to support the wasteful, ruthless exploitation of farm animals.” Singer, Peter: “So it's not surprising that an animal as sensitive and intelligent as a pig would get depressed, and a depressed pig will allow his tail to be chewed on to the point of infection.” Socrates: The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion.” Spalding, Violet: “The first time I ever entered a battery house (chicken farm), I thought it was the entrance to Hell.” Stevenson, Robert Louis: “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.” Stevenson, Robert Louis: “We consume the carcasses of creatures of like appetites, passions and organs with our own, and fill the slaughterhouses daily with screams of fear and pain.” Stowe, Harriet Beecher: “It's a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done.” Strindberg, August: “I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves.” The Holocaust Museum, Washington D.C.: “Thou shalt not be a victim; Thou shalt not be a perpetrator; Above all; Thou shalt not be a bystander.” Thoreau, Henry David: “It takes a man of genius to travel in his own country, in his native village, to make any progress between his porch and his gate.” Thurber, James: “If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons.” Tolstoy, Leo: “If he be really and seriously seeking to live a good life, the first thing from which he will abstain will always be the use of animal food, because ...its use is simply immoral, as it involves the performance of an act which is contrary to the moral feeling -- killing.” Twain, Mark: “If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat.” Twain, Mark: “If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you; that is the principal difference between a dog and a man.” Unknown: “The person who kills for fun is announcing that, could he get away with it, he'd kill you for fun.” Unknown: “Your...life may be of no consequence to anyone else but is invaluable to you because it's the only one you've got. Exactly the same is true of each individual deer, hare, rabbit, fox, fish, pheasant and butterfly.” Walker, Alice: “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.” Email me your quotes! CLICK HERE Go To YouCouldSavetheWorld Home |
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