“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.”
― The Basis of Morality
― The Basis of Morality
“Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable.
--Blanche Dubois”
― Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire
--Blanche Dubois”
― Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire
“I became a vegetarian after realizing that animals feel afraid, cold, hungry and unhappy like we do. I feel very deeply about vegetarianism and the animal kingdom. It was my dog Boycott who led me to question the right of humans to eat other sentient beings.”
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“there is only one unpardonable sin--deliberate cruelty. All else can be forgiven.”
― The Thanksgiving Visitor
― The Thanksgiving Visitor
“In fact, if one person is unkind to an animal it is considered to be cruelty, but where a lot of people are unkind to animals, especially in the name of commerce, the cruelty is condoned and, once large sums of money are at stake, will be defended to the last by otherwise intelligent people.”
― Animal Machines
― Animal Machines
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