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#1

“Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.”
― Colette

tags: animals, companions, friends, pets

1309 likes

#2

“Until one has loved an animal, a part of one's soul remains unawakened.”
― Anatole France

tags: animals, love, pets

1059 likes

#3

“If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans.”
― James Herriot , All Creatures Great and Small

tags: animals, gratitude, love, loyalty, soul

803 likes

#4

“Animals don't hate, and we're supposed to be better than them.”
― Elvis Presley

tags: animals, hate

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#5

“Compassion for animals is intimately associated with goodness of character, and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to animals cannot be a good man.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, The Basis of Morality

tags: animals, cruelty, goodness

832 likes

#6

“To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

tags: animals, goodness, humanity, lambs, sheep

427 likes

#7

“We all know interspecies romance is weird.”
― Tim Burton

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#8

“If slaughterhouses had glass walls, the whole world would be vegetarian.”
― Linda McCartney, Linda's Kitchen: Simple and Inspiring Recipes for Meals Without Meat

tags: animals, beatles, dogs, veganism, vegetarianism

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#9

“Perhaps in the back of our minds we already understand, without all the science I've discussed, that something terribly wrong is happening. Our sustenance now comes from misery. We know that if someone offers to show us a film on how our meat is produced, it will be a horror film. We perhaps know more than we care to admit, keeping it down in the dark places of our memory-- disavowed. When we eat factory-farmed meat we live, literally, on tortured flesh. Increasingly, that tortured flesh is becoming our own.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Eating Animals

tags: animals, factory-farming, meat, science, veganism, vegetarianism

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#10

“The dog is the most faithful of animals and would be much esteemed were it not so common. Our Lord God has made His greatest gifts the commonest.”
― Martin Luther

tags: animals, dogs

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#11

“Being vegan is easy. Are there social pressures that encourage you to continue to eat, wear, and use animal products? Of course there are. But in a patriarchal, racist, homophobic, and ableist society, there are social pressures to participate and engage in sexism, racism, homophobia, and ableism. At some point, you have to decide who you are and what matters morally to you. And once you decide that you regard victimizing vulnerable nonhumans is not morally acceptable, it is easy to go and stay vegan”
― Gary L. Francione

tags: abolitionist, exploitation, moral-imperative, moral-obligation, nonviolence, slavery, speciesism, veganism

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#12

“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.”
― Albert Schweitzer

tags: albert-scheweitzer, animal-rights, animals, compassion

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#13

“The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog.”
― Mark Twain

tags: animals, learn, like, people

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#14

“If you don't own a dog, at least one, there is not necessarily anything wrong with you, but there may be something wrong with your life.”
― Roger Caras

tags: animals, dogs

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#15

“Discipline isn't about showing a dog who's boss; it's about taking
responsibility for a living creature you have brought into your world.”
― Cesar Millan, Be the Pack Leader: Use Cesar's Way to Transform Your Dog . . . and Your Life

tags: animals, discipline, dogs

170 likes

#16

“Veganism is not about giving anything up or losing anything; it is about gaining the peace within yourself that comes from embracing nonviolence and refusing to participate in the exploitation of the vulnerable”
― Gary L. Francione

tags: abolitionist, animals, inspirational-quotes, justice, nonviolence, peace-movement, peace-on-earth, rights, veganism

203 likes

#17

“May all that have life be delivered from suffering”
― Buddha

tags: animals, kindness, life

160 likes

#18

“We do not need to eat animals, wear animals, or use animals for entertainment purposes, and our only defense of these uses is our pleasure, amusement, and convenience.”
― Gary L. Francione

tags: abolition, abolitionist, ahimsa, animals, education, exploitation, francione, inspirational-quotes, justice, life, nonviolence, nonviolence-jainism, peace-making, peace-movement, peace-on-earth, rights, sentience, slavery, veganism, wisdom

154 likes

#19

“To be a vegetarian is to disagree - to disagree with the course of things today... starvation, cruelty - we must make a statement against these things. Vegetarianism is my statement. And I think it's a strong one.”
― Isaac Bashevis Singer

tags: animal-rights, animals, vegetarian

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#20

“We have doomed the wolf not for what it is, but for what we deliberately and mistakenly perceive it to be –the mythologized epitome of a savage ruthless killer – which is, in reality, no more than a reflected image of ourself.”
― Farley Mowat, Never Cry Wolf: The Amazing True Story of Life Among Arctic Wolves

tags: animals, wolves

229 likes

#21

“I don't believe in the concept of hell, but if I did I would think of it as filled with people who were cruel to animals.”
― Gary Larson

tags: animals, cruelty, hell

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#22

“Ethical veganism results in a profound revolution within the individual; a complete rejection of the paradigm of oppression and violence that she has been taught from childhood to accept as the natural order. It changes her life and the lives of those with whom she shares this vision of nonviolence. Ethical veganism is anything but passive; on the contrary, it is the active refusal to cooperate with injustice”
― Gary L. Francione

tags: exploitation, justice, moral-imperative, moral-obligation, nonviolence, rights, sentience, speciesism, veganism

142 likes

#23

“May our daily choices be a reflection of our deepest values, and may we use our voices to speak for those who need us most, those who have no voice, those who have no choice.”
― Colleen Patrick-Goudreau, Vegan's Daily Companion: 365 Days of Inspiration for Cooking, Eating, and Living Compassionately

tags: animals, compassion, life, peace, vegan

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#24

“Let us remember that animals are not mere resources for human consumption. They are splendid beings in their own right, who have evolved alongside us as co-inheritors of all the beauty and abundance of life on this planet”
― Marc Bekoff, Animals Matter: A Biologist Explains Why We Should Treat Animals with Compassion and Respect

tags: animals, compassion, life, planet, resources, share, vegan

54 likes

#25

“Answer me, you who believe that animals are only machines. Has nature arranged for this animal to have all the machinery of feelings only in order for it not to have any at all?”
― Voltaire

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#26

“Now may every living thing, young or old,
weak or strong, living near or far, known or
unknown, living or departed or yet unborn,
may every living thing be full of bliss.”
― Anonymous, The Dhammapada

tags: animals, bliss, humans, joy, life, living, peace

51 likes

#27

“This brings me back to the image of Kafka standing before a fish in the Berlin aquarium, a fish on which his gaze fell in a newly found peace after he decided not to eat animals. Kafka recognized that fish as a member of his invisible family- not as his equal, of course, but as another being that was his concern.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Eating Animals

tags: animals, kafka, veganism, vegetarianism

58 likes

#28

“Forty-two years after Dr. King was murdered, we are still a nation of inequality. People of color, women, gays, lesbians, and others are still treated as second-class citizens. Yes, things have changed but we have still not achieved equality among all humans. And nonhuman animals continue to be chattel property without any inherent value.”
― Gary L. Francione

tags: animals, chattel-property, heterosexism, inherent-value, nonhuman, racism, sexism, speciesism, womens-rights

35 likes

#29

“How could it ever be to our purpose to rob another living being of his or her purpose?”
― Will Tuttle, The World Peace Diet: Eating for Spiritual Health and Social Harmony

tags: animals, compassion, life

21 likes

#30

“She thought about how it was so simple with animals. They gave their hearts without question or fear. They had no expectations. They were so easy to love. If people could only be like that, no one would ever be hurt, she thought. No one would ever need to learn how to forgive.”
― Elizabeth George, A Suitable Vengeance

tags: animals, forgiveness, love

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