Animal Timing Animal Rights

When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble

~Buddha

"Life is life's greatest gift. Guard the life of another creature as you would your own because it is your own. On life's scale of values, the smallest is no less precious to the creature who owns it than the largest."

~Lloyd Biggle Jr.

"Love of animals is a universal impulse, a common ground on which all of us may meet. By loving and understanding animals, perhaps we humans shall come to understand each other."

~Louis J. Camuti

The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man.

~Charles Darwin

There is no fundamental difference between man and the higher animals in their mental faculties... The lower animals, like man, manifestly feel pleasure and pain, happiness, and misery.

~Charles Darwin

Killing animals for sport, for pleasure, for adventure, and for hides and furs is a phenomena which is at once disgusting and distressing. There is no justification in indulging is such acts of brutality

~Dalai Lama

The question is not, "Can they reason?" nor, "Can they talk?" but rather, "Can they suffer?"

~Jeremy Bentham

"True benevolence or compassion, extends itself through the whole of existence and sympathizes with the distress of every creature capable of sensation."

~Joseph Addison

I pledge ... TO EAT wholesome food produced locally by organic methods, and to minimize my consumption of food which I know to have involved cruelty to animals or other environmental harmnd each other."

~Guy Daunceyi

I love all the shows that encourage people to love, appreciate and help animals. There are more programs about animals than ever, and that pleases me.

~Doris Day

"You have to love animals for what they are or leave them alone. The best thing you can do if you love them is leave them alone and see that other people do too."

~Pat Derby

"If a man aspires towards a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from injury to animals."

~Albert Einstein

It's sad. That's a living creature. We don't have the right to take their life away for fashion.

~Carmen Electra

"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

I realized that Eastern thought had somewhat more compassion for all living things. Man was a form of life that in another reincarnation might possibly be a horsefly or a bird of paradise or a deer. So a man of such a faith, looking at animals, might be looking at old friends or ancestors. In the East the wilderness has no evil connotation; it is thought of as an expression of the unity and harmony of the universe.

~Justice William O. Douglas

"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 Edison

Our task must be to free ourselves... by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and it's beauty.

~Albert Einstein

"The awful wrongs and sufferings forced upon the innocent, helpless, faithful animal race, form the blackest chapter in the whole world's history."

~Edward Freeman

The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

~Mohandas Gandhi

Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.

~James A. Froude

To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being. The more helpless the creature, the more that it is entitled to protection by man from the cruelty of man.

~Mohandas Gandhi

Ever occur to you why some of us can be this much concerned with animals suffering? Because government is not. Why not? Animals don't vote.

~Paul Harvey

"Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages."~Thomas Jefferson

"He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.

~Immanuel Kant