The Dalai Lama on Animals

"Killing animals for sport, for pleasure, for adventure, and for hides and furs is a phenomena which is at once disgusting and distressing. There is no justification in indulging is such acts of brutality."...

Leo Tolstoy on Animals

"A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite."...

Dalai Lama on Animals

"Life is as dear to a mute creature as it is to man. Just as one wants happiness and fears pain, just as one wants to live and not die, so do other creatures."...

Lawrence Anthony on Animals

"But perhaps the most important lesson I learned is that there are no walls between humans and the elephants except those that we put up ourselves, and that until we allow not only elephants, but all living cre...

Mark Twain on Animals

"I have been studying the traits and dispositions of the “lower animals” ( so called ) and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions of man. I find the result humiliating to me."...

Mark Twain on Animals

"Heaven is by favor; if it were by merit your dog would go in and you would stay out. Of all the creatures ever made is the most detestable. Of the entire brood, he is the only one… that possesses malice. H...

Bertrand Russell on Opinions

"The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence that it is not utterly absurd; indeed, in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more often likely to be foolish t...