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 VinciTag: animals vegetarianism animal-rights murder
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 KantTag: judge morality animal-rights cruelty treatment
Whenever and wherever men have engaged in the mindless slaughter of animals (including other men), they have often attempted to justify their acts by attributing the most vicious or revolting qualities to those they would destroy; and the less reason there is for the slaughter, the greater the campaign for vilification.
Farley MowatTag: animal-rights war justification destroy
I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being.
Abraham LincolnTag: animal-rights
The question is not, "Can they reason?" nor, "Can they talk?" but "Can they suffer?
Jeremy BenthamTag: animal-rights vegetarian moral
If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons.
C.S. LewisTag: animal-rights enemies logic animal eugenics
Dogs do not have many advantages over people, but one of them is extremely important: euthanasia is not forbidden by law in their case; animals have the right to a merciful death.
Milan KunderaTag: animals animal-rights death human-rights euthanasia
The assumption that animals are without rights and the illusion that our treatment of them has no moral significance is a positively outrageous example of Western crudity and barbarity. Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
Arthur SchopenhauerTag: compassion animals morality animal-rights cruelty barbarism
In the preface of "The Rifles"
"Another rule we followed was never kill an animal that we were not going to use for food or clothing." Barnabas Piryuaq
"Well, in those high latitudes we found such quantities of seals and walruses that we simply did not know what to do with them.There were thousands and thousands lying there; we walked among them and hit them on the head, and laughed heartily in the abundance which God had created." Jan Welzi 1933.
Tag: animal-rights environment violence native-americans hunters slaughter
The time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look on the murder of men.
Dmitry MerezhkovskyTag: animals animal-rights murder
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