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*Romain Rolland, Nobel Prize 1915 "To a man whose mind is free there is something even more intolerable in the sufferings of animals than in the sufferings of man. For with the latter it is at least admitted that suffering is evil and that the man who causes it is a criminal. But thousands of animals are uselessly butchered every day without a shadow of remorse. If any man were to refer to it, he would be thought ridiculous. And that is the unpardonable crime. That alone is the justification of all that humans may suffer. It cries vengeance upon all the human race. If God exists and tolerates it, it cries vengeance upon God."
*Albert Schweitzer:
"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."
"Anyone who has accustomed himself to regard the life of any living creature as worthless is in danger of arriving also at the idea of worthless human lives."
*Richard Ryder "To say that he does is to say with the Fascists that the strong have a right to abuse and exploit the weak—might is right, and the strong and ruthless shall inherit the Earth."
*Henry David Thoreau "It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak, and another to hear."
*Loren Eiseley "One day a man was walking along the beach when he noticed a boy picking something up and gently throwing it into the ocean. Approaching the boy, he asked, 'What are you doing?' The youth replied, 'Throwing starfish back into the ocean. The surf is up and the tide is going out. If I don't throw them back, they'll die.' 'Son,' the man said, 'don't you realize there are miles and miles of beach and hundreds of starfish? You can't make a difference!' After listening politely, the boy bent down, picked up another starfish, and threw it back into the surf. Then, smiling at the man, he said...'I made a difference for that one.'"
*Oliver W. Holmes "Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions."
*Immanuel Kant "If man is not to stifle human feelings, he must practice kindness to animals, for He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals."
*Bertrand Russel "Moral progress has consisted in the main of protest against cruel customs, and of attempts to enlarge human sympathy."
*Cesar Chavez "Kindness and compassion toward all living things is the mark of a civilized society."
*Paul McCartney "If slaughterhouses had glass walls, (mostly) everyone would be a vegetarian."
*Leo Tolstoy:
"Flesh eating is simply immoral, as it involves the performance of an act, which is contrary to moral feeling: killing. By killing, man suppresses in himself, unnecessarily, the highest spiritual capacity, that of sympathy and pity towards living creatures like himself and by violating his own feelings becomes cruel."
"As long as there are slaughterhouses, there will be battlefields."
*Franz Kafka "Now I can look at you in peace; I don't eat you anymore."
*George Orwell "In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act."
*George Bernard Shaw "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself."
*Pete Singer "All the arguments to prove man's superiority cannot shatter this hard fact: in suffering the animals are our equals."
*Pierre Troubetzkoy "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?"
Mark Twain "...man is the only creature that inflicts pain for sport, knowing it to be pain."
*Denis de Rougement "Animals do feel like us, also joy, love, fear and pain but they cannot grasp the spoken word. It is our obligation to take their part and continue to resist the people who profit by them, who slaughter them and who torture them."
*Joseph F. Goodavage; Magic: Science of the Future "We're beginning to realize the almost irreparable loss in such cruel and barbaric practices as hunting and killing innocent creatures for pleasure or mercilessly trapping and torturing harmless animals..."
*Dennis Weaver "I think there will come a time...when civilized people will look back in horror on our generation and the ones that have preceded it; the idea that we should eat other living things running around on four legs, that we should raise them just for the purpose of killing them! The people of the future will say, 'meat-eaters' in disgust and regard us in the same way that we regard cannibals and cannibalism."
*Isaac Bashevis Singer "People often say that humans have always eaten animals, as if this is a justification for continuing the practice..."

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