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#1

“There is a sacredness in tears. They are not a mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition and of unspeakable love.”
― Washington Irving

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#2

“Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.”
― Mark Twain

tags: inspirational, kindness

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#3

“It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress.”
― Mark Twain

tags: america, congress, corruption, government

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#4

“I remember one bobcat they had in here - now bobcats are an endangered species in this neck of the woods - they'd caught it somewhere and they must have put that cat through a dozen rounds of burn experiments before they finally determined that it was utterly useless to them. Like an empty beer can. And then you know what they did to it? Claudius was late for a lunch date so rather thanput the destroyed but still breathing animal to sleep, he picked it up by its hind legs and simply smashed its head against a wall repeatedly until it was dead. How can I forget it: I was the one told to clean up the mess. The head dented in. The eyes slowly closing. The once proud claws hanging down, stunned and lifeless, the utter senselessness of it all, and the hate, a hatred that was consummated in me which is as dangerous a hormone, or chemical, or portion of the brain, as any neutron bomb. Except that I didnt know how to explode. I was like a computer without a keyboard, a bird without wings. Roaring inside. I wanted to kill that man. To do unto others what they had done unto me. I was that bobcat, you better believe it.”
― Michael Tobias, Rage and Reason

tags: animal-cruelty, animal-rights, animal-testing, science, vegan, vegetarianism, vivisection

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#5

“They have a Right to censure, that have a Heart to help: The rest is Cruelty, not Justice.

(Frequently misquoted as "He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.")”
― William Penn

tags: 1693, criticism, helping-others, misattributed-to-abraham-lincoln, misquote, volunteerism

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#6

“To avoid criticism say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.”
― Elbert Hubbard, Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Vol. 3: American Statesmen

tags: criticism

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#7

“Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.”
― George Eliot

tags: agony, introspection, love, parting

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#8

“The question is not, "Can they reason?" nor, "Can they talk?" but "Can they suffer?”
― Jeremy Bentham (An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation (Philosophical Classics), The Principles of Morals and Legislation

tags: animal-rights, moral, vegetarian

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#9

“If you don't like pictures of animal cruelty being posted on social media, you need to help stop the cruelty, not the pictures. You should be bothered that its happening, not that you saw it.”
― Marie Sarantakis

tags: animal-cruelty, animal-welfare, social-media-behaviour

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#10

“Humanity's true moral test, its fundamental test…consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals.”
― Milan Kundera

tags: animal-cruelty, animal-rights, animal-welfare, animals

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#11

“Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.”
― Dalai Lama XIV

tags: selflessness

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#12

“In happiness and suffering, in joy and grief, we should regard all creatures as we regard our own self.”
― Mahavira

tags: ethics, golden-rule, grief, happiness, jainism, joy, morality, selflessness, suffering

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#13

“Witnessing a selfless act brings tears to remind us how we should be treating others.”
― Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

tags: reminders, selflessness, tears, treating, witnessing

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#14

“Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal.
From an Irish headstone”
― Richard Puz, The Carolinian

tags: death, death-and-love, death-of-a-loved-one, eternal-love, healing, healing-the-past, heartache-love, heartbreak, love-hurts, memorial, memories, memory

785 likes

#15

“This soldier, I realized, must have had friends at home and in his regiment; yet he lay there deserted by all except his dog. I looked on, unmoved, at battles which decided the future of nations. Tearless, I had given orders which brought death to thousands. Yet here I was stirred, profoundly stirred, stirred to tears. And by what? By the grief of one dog.'

Napoleon Bonaparte, on finding a dog beside the body of his dead master, licking his face and howling, on a moonlit field after a battle. Napoleon was haunted by this scene until his own death.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte

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#16

“You Can't Unring a Bell.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

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#17

“Words have consequences.”
― Albert Marrin

tags: consequences, words

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#18

“Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.”
― Kahlil Gibran

tags: emotion, heartbreak, lost-love, love, parting

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#19

“The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.”
― William Shakespeare, King Henry VI, Part 2

tags: anarchy, classic, murder, wit

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#20

“When I feel the heat, I see the light.”
― Everett Dirksen

tags: dual-meaning, governments, heat, light, optimisim, problems, troubles

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#21

“Dogs are loyal, patient, fearless, forgiving, and capable of pure love. Virtues that few people get through life without abandoning, at least once.”
― M.K. Clinton, The Returns

tags: dogs-and-humans, dogs-loyalty, inspirational-love, love

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#22

“Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.”
― Winston Churchill

tags: gratitude, heroes, raf, war

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#23

“Breathe a word of prayer, not anger.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

tags: anger-quotes, faith-quotes, forgiveness-quotes, letting-go-of-the-past, letting-go-quotes, peace-quotes, prayer-quotes, spiritual-quotes, spirituality-quotes

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#24

“It is the press, above all, which wages a positively fanatical and slanderous struggle, tearing down everything which can be regarded as a support of national independence, cultural elevation, and the economic independence of the nation.”
― Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf

tags: censorship, constitution, fascism, first-amendment, free-press, free-speech, freedom-of-the-press, human-rights, journalism, nazi, news, press

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#25

“Life is as dear to a mute creature as it is to man. Just as one wants happiness and fears pain, just as one wants to live and not die, so do other creatures.”
― Dalai Lama XIV

tags: life

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#26

“I'm suspicious of people who don't like dogs, but I trust a dog when it doesn't like a person.”
― Bill Murray

tags: bill-murray, dislike, dogs, like, person, trust

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#27

“Compassion is the basis of morality.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer

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#28

“The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”
― Elie Wiesel

tags: activism, apathy, hate, indifference, inspirational, love, opposite, philosophy

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#29

“In the past, humans hesitated when they took lives, even non-human lives. But society had changed, and they no longer felt that way. As humans grew stronger, I think that we became quite arrogant, losing the sorrow of 'we have no other choice.' I think that in the essence of human civilization, we have the desire to become rich without limit, by taking the lives of other creatures.”
― Hayao Miyazaki

tags: arrogant, choice, creatures, hayao, hayao-miyazaki, human-civilization, miyazaki, rich

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