"I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being."
(Abraham Lincoln, 16th U.S. President)

"Our task must be to free ourselves... by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty."
(Albert Einstein, physicist, Nobel Prize 1921)

"Life is as dear to the mute creature as it is to a man. Just as one wants happiness and fears pain, just as one wants to live and not to die, so do other creatures."
(His Holiness The Dalai Lama)

"Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages."
(Thomas Edison, inventor)

"You know, we all oppose animal cruelty. But sometimes we forget that animals on farms suffer and feel pain like all other animals. They, too, deserve to be protected from harm and cruelty."
(Charlotte Ross)

人皆貪生怕死，將心比心，動物何嘗不是