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

The thinking [person] must oppose all cruel customs no matter how deeply rooted in tradition and surrounded by a halo. When we have a choice, we must avoid bringing torment and injury into the life of another...
--Albert Schweitzer

Animals share with us the privilege of having a soul
--Pythagoras

"Look deep into the eyes of any animal, and then for a moment, trade places, their life becomes as precious as yours and you become as vulnerable as them. Now smile if you believe all animals deserve our respect and our protection, for in a way, they are us, and we are them."
--Philip Ochoa, Board Member, ALL FOR ANIMALS

Six million Jews died in concentration camps, but six billion broiler chickens will die this year in slaughter houses.
--Ingrid Newkirk (PETA)

I am in favour of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being.
--Abraham Lincoln

It should not be believed that all beings exist for the sake of the existence of man. On the contrary, all the other beings too have been intended for their own sakes and not for the sake of anything else.
--Maimonides (physician and philosopher)

"You cannot run away from awareness; you must some time fight it out or perish. And if you be so, why not now and where you stand?"
--Robert Louis Stevenson

If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favour freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are people who want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the roar of its many waters. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will."
--Frederick Douglass, slavery abolitionist

"Life is life--whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat or a man. The idea of difference is a human conception for man's own advantage..."
--Sri Aurobindo, poet and philosopher

"All great movements, it is written, go through three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption. It is the realisation of this third stage, adoption, that requires our passion and our discipline, our hearts and our heads. The fate of animals is in our hands."
--Tom Regan

"Because one species is more clever than another, does it give it the right to imprison or torture the less clever species? Does one exceptionally clever individual have a right to exploit the less clever individuals of his own species? To say that he does is to say with the Fascists that the strong have a right to abuse and exploit the weak - might is right, and the strong and ruthless shall inherit the earth."
--Richard Ryder

"The soul is the same in all living creatures, although the body of each is different."
--Hippocrates (philosopher)


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