‘Humans — who enslave, castrate, experiment on, and fillet other animals — have had an understandable penchant for pretending animals do not feel pain. A sharp distinction between humans and ‘animals’ is essential if we are to bend them to our will, make them work for us, wear them, eat them — without any disquieting tinges of guilt or regret. It is unseemly of us, who often behave so unfeelingly toward other animals, to contend that only humans can suffer. The behavior of other animals renders such pretensions specious. They are just too much like us.’
Carl Sagan
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“人类是唯一能保持友好的方式与他打算灾民吃，直到他吃它们的动物。’
塞缪尔·巴特勒
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动物是我的朋友…我不吃我的朋友。’
萧伯纳
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“如果你访问一个屠宰场杀害地板, 将您的品牌灵魂的生命。’
霍华德·莱曼
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'所有众生的暴力面前发抖. 所有怕死, 所有的爱情生活. 看到自己在他人. 那么谁可以伤害? 你可以做哪些危害?’
佛
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“但为了肉的一些小满口, 我们剥夺了太阳和光的灵魂, 生命和时间的比例，它是出生到世上来享受。’
塞内卡
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'所有众生都喜欢生活, 般的快感, 恨痛, 顺破坏, 如人生, 长住. 所有生命是亲爱的。“
Acharanga经
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“自从发生你为什么有些人可以成为这个怎么关心动物的痛苦? 因为政府不是. 为什么不呢? 动物不投票. ‘
保罗·哈维
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“要贪婪, 所有的自然是不够的。’
塞内卡
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“最糟糕的罪向我们的同胞的生物是不是恨他们, 但要无动于衷; 这就是人性的本质。’
萧伯纳
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“可怜的动物! 他们是如何小心翼翼地保护自己的可怜的身体 . . . 那这对我们来说只是一个晚上的餐, 但对他们来说是生命本身。’
Ŧ. 凯西·布伦南
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“从野兽，我们不屑的灵魂,
在森林, 场和书房,
该哭上升到见证
男人的soullessness。’
M. 弗里达哈特利
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“肉是谋杀”.
莫里西
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“这是我的信念，即杀食欲的外衣下也不过是谋杀行为. ‘
爱德华·桑切斯
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“一个人可以生活和健康没有杀害动物为食; 因此, 如果他吃的肉, 他参与拍摄动物的生命仅仅是为了他的胃口. 并采取行动这样是不道德的。’
列夫·托尔斯泰
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'非暴力导致最高道德, 这是所有发展的目标. 直到我们停止伤害其他众生, 我们还是野蛮人。’
托马斯·爱迪生
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“如果我们不需要吃动物的生存, 味道是足够好的理由来谋杀他们毫不怜惜?’
爱德华·桑切斯
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“真正的男人是万兽之王, 他的残暴超过他们的. 我们生活在他人的死亡: 我们埋葬的地方! 我从小就发誓放弃使用肉, 和时候要到，人如我会看动物的谋杀，因为他们现在看对人的谋杀。’
达芬奇
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“当一个人想要杀害老虎, 他称之为运动; 当老虎要谋杀他, 他称之为凶猛。’
萧伯纳
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“人类的真正的道德测试, 其基本的测试...包括其对那些谁是在其摆布的态度: 动物. 在这方面人类却遭遇了根本性的溃败, 一场大灾难使基本所有的人从它干。’
米兰·昆德拉
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“这是什么，应该追查不可逾越的线? …现在的问题是不, 他们可以推理? 也不, 他们可以谈? 但, 他们可以承受?’
边沁
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“世界上的动物为自己存在的理由. 他们不是为人类比黑种人的任何更多的经费用于白色作了, 或为男性创造了妇女。’
艾丽斯·沃克
George Sequoia ‘Edison seems to have personally felt that its the harming (not killing) of other living beings that is consistant with one being termed a savage. Interesting?’
Karen Lakeman ‘He became vegetarian during an illness (so for health reasons) but remained so afterwards. I dont know whether he wrote this before or after and whether he was referring to cruelty….’
George Sequoia ‘I’m sure Edison lived and learned like the rest of us . But I’m just hoping it was after he tried out his electric equipement on dog’s, that he wrote that quote.’
Karen Lakeman ‘Oh! I didn’t know he did that…’
George Sequoia ‘ Yes, from what I’v read there was quite a hoohaa about his giving massive electric shocks to animals. I’m sure Edison regretted this part of his life, and I can’t condemn a man no matter what he’s done, if he realises his wrong and changes his way of living and thinking.
You cant get much worse than this….’
“1887 – Edison conducts demonstration in West Orange, New Jersey, in which he kills large numbers of cats and dogs by luring the animals onto a metal plate wired to a 1,000 volt AC generator.”
http://ccadp.org/electricchair.htm
Karen Lakeman ‘Thats awful. I hope he regretted all this and made his famous quote about non-violence afterwards too’
great quotes 🙂 the leonardo di vinci quote speaks to me a lot! i also like the following quotes 🙂
“The earth affords a lavish supply of riches, of innocent foods, and offers you banquets that involve no bloodshed or slaughter; only beasts satisfy their hunger with flesh, and not even all of those, because horses, cattle, and sheep live on grass.”
-Pythagoras
In all the round world of utopia there is no meat. There used to be. But now we cannot stand the thought of slaughterhouses. And in a population that is all educated and at about the same level of physical refinement, it is practically impossible to find anyone who will hew a dead ox or pig. We never settled the hygienic aspect of meat-eating at all. This other aspect decided us. I can still remember as a boy the rejoicings over the closing of the last slaughterhouse.” -H.G. Wells
To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being. I should be unwilling to take the life of a lamb for the sake of the human body.” -Mohandas Gandhi (1869-1948)
“One day the absurdity of the almost universal human belief in the slavery of other animals will be palpable. We shall then have discovered our souls and become worthier of sharing this planet with them.”
– Martin Luther King, Jr
“Could you look an animal in the eyes and say to it, ‘My
appetite is more important than your suffering’? – Moby
Thank you for these wonderful quotations Katie. I will put them on here.
Until one has loved an animal,
a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.
– Anatole France
The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be
judged by the way its animals are treated.
– Mahatma Gandhi
Thanks Kate
How can we stop the barbaric Koreans to breed dogs for human consumption. They even wanted to ask the government to legalise the dog meat industry – this is too barbaric and too cruel as dosgs have brains and are humans’ friends.
I agree Shirley this is a barbaric and disgusting practice. How can people be that greedy and cruel?
“The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.”
― Mahatma Gandhi