78 Quotes About Animal-welfare
- Author Paul Oxton
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A simple act of kindness and compassion towards a single animal may not mean anything to all creatures, but will mean everything to one.
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- Author Victor Shamas
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In an era of globalization, we recognize that we are part of a global society, but we have no idea how to make such a society work. So far, no unified vision or leadership has emerged to guide us in this endeavor. We have not yet found a way to expand the spiritual ideals of democracy so that they pertain to every human being, every animal, and every plant. Until we do, human civilization and the Earth's ecosystem will continue to be in peril.
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- Author Mango Wodzak
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Nonconsensual execution can never be humanely executed.
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- Author Milan Kundera
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Humanity's true moral test, its fundamental test…consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals.
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- Author Matthew Scully
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When you start with a necessary evil, and then over time the necessity passes away, what's left?
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- Author Sheila Burnford
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Loss of life was an accepted gamble that men took when they went to war. But no animal went to war: caught up in man's lethal affairs, they were an irreconcilable aberration.
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- Author Sigrid Nunez
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I believe the intensity of the pity you feel for an animal has to do with how it evokes pity for yourself.... Innocence is something we humans pass through and leave behind, unable to return. But animals live and die in that state, and seeing innocence violated in the form of cruelty to a mere duck can seem like the most barbaric act in the world.
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- Author Shaun Tan
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Horses know this more than most: The greatest curse of any animal is to be worth money to men.
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- Author Paul Oxton
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There may be days when I can't help an animal in need, but the day will never come that I won't try.
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