#animals

"Animals are my friends...and I don't eat my friends."

"I hope to make people realize how totally helpless animals are, how dependent on us, trusting as a child must that we will be kind and take care of their needs."

"To say that a being who is sentient has no interest in continuing to live is like saying that a being with eyes has no interest in continuing to see. Death—however “humane”—is a harm for humans and nonhumans alike."

"You can't be sad when Daisy is around, she won't let you."

"Veganism is an act of nonviolent defiance. It is our statement that we reject the notion that animals are things and that we regard sentient nonhumans as moral persons with the fundamental moral right not to be treated as the property or resources of humans."

"We are human, and we suffer, and unlike the animals on the farm, we are self-aware, and we know that we suffer, and it doesn't hurt more or less if God caused it or could stop it, at least for me. I am definitely of the school that believes God has bigger stuff to worry about than me."

"The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated."

"Animals have never betrayed me. They are an easy prey, as I have been throughout my career. So we feel the same. I love them."

"I can't abide people who go soft over animals and then cheat every human they come across!"

"If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man."

"Veganism is not a "sacrifice."It is a joy."

"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read."

"Happiness is a warm puppy."

"Love the animals: God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled."

"The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven not man's."

"They took their meals together; and it was remarked on such occasions, when the friendship of animals is put to a hard test, that they never quarrelled or disputed the possession of a favourite fruit with each other."

"Civilization is only possible for deeply unpleasant animals. It is only an ape that can be truly civilized."

"My girlfriend bought me a collared shirt for my birthday, mainly so I don’t get too far ahead of her when she takes me for a walk."

"How it is that animals understand things I do not know, but it is certain that they do understand. Perhaps there is a language which is not made of words and everything in the world understands it. Perhaps there is a soul hidden in everything and it can always speak, without even making a sound, to another soul."

"So it is always preferable to discuss the matter of veganism in a non-judgemental way. Remember that to most people, eating flesh or dairy and using animal products such as leather, wool, and silk, is as normal as breathing air or drinking water. A person who consumes dairy or uses animal products is not necessarily or usually what a recent and unpopular American president labelled an "evil doer."