Zoos are becoming facsimiles - or perhaps caricatures - of how animals once were in their natural habitat. If the right policies toward nature were pursued, we would need no zoos at all.
Showing posts with label Animal Rights Quotes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Animal Rights Quotes. Show all posts
Wild animals never kill for sp...
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.
Why should man expect his pray...
Why should man expect his prayer for mercy to be heard by What is above him when he shows no mercy to what is under him?
When it comes to having a cent...
When it comes to having a central nervous system, and the ability to feel pain, hunger, and thirst, a rat is a pig is a dog is a boy.
When I was twelve, I went hunt...
When I was twelve, I went hunting with my father and we shot a bird. He was laying there and something struck me. Why do we call this fun to kill this creature [who] was as happy as I was when I woke up this morning.
When a man wants to murder a t...
When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport: wlien the tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.
When a man wantonly destroys o...
When a man wantonly destroys one of the works of man we call him a vandal. When he destroys one of the works of god we call him a sportsman.
We must fight against the spir...
We must fight against the spirit of unconscious cruelty with which we treat the animals. Animals suffer as much as we do. True humanity does not allow us to impose such sufferings on them. It is our duty to make the whole world recognize it. Until we extend our circle of compassion to all living things, humanity will not find peace.
We have enslaved the rest of t...
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.
Vivisection is a social evil b...
Vivisection is a social evil because if it advances human knowledge, it does so at the expense of human character.
Very little of the great cruel...
Very little of the great cruelty shown by men can really be attributed to cruel instinct. Most 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.
Though boys throw stones at fr...
Though boys throw stones at frogs in sport, the frogs do not die in sport, but in earnest.
Those who wish to pet and baby...
Those who wish to pet and baby wild animals ""love"" them. But those who respect their natures and wish to let them live normal lives, love them more.
There will be no justice as lo...
There will be no justice as long as man will stand with a knife or with a gun and destroy those who are weaker than he is.
The woods were made for the hu...
The woods were made for the hunter of dreams, The brooks for the fishes of song.
The question is not, "Can ...
The question is not, "Can they reason?" nor, "Can they talk?" but rather, "Can they suffer?"
The life spark in my eyes is i...
The life spark in my eyes is in no way different than the life spark in the eyes of any other sentient being.
The indifference, callousness ...
The indifference, callousness and contempt that so many people exhibit toward animals is evil first because it results in great suffering in animals, and second because it results in an incalculably great impoverishment of the human spirit. All education should be directed toward the refinement of the individual's sensibilities in relation not only to one's fellow humans everywhere, but to all things whatsoever.
The human spirit is not dead.&...
The human spirit is not dead. It lives on in secret.... It has come to believe that compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.
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