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Beartown (Beartown, #1)

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“The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

tags: animals, ethics, gandhi, morals

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“The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.”
― George Orwell, Animal Farm

tags: animal-farm, animals, closing-line, man, satirical

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“Animals are my friends...and I don't eat my friends.”
― George Bernard Shaw

tags: animals, attributed-no-source, friends, humor, vegetarianism

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“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 Schopenhauer, The Basis of Morality

tags: animal-rights, animals, barbarism, compassion, cruelty, morality

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“I ask people why they have deer heads on their walls. They always say because it's such a beautiful animal. There you go. I think my mother is attractive, but I have photographs of her.”
― Ellen DeGeneres

tags: animal-protection, animals, deer, humor, hunting, killing, taxidermy

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