#animals

"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."

"Veganism is not about giving anything up or losing anything; it is about gaining the peace within yourself that comes from embracing nonviolence and refusing to participate in the exploitation of the vulnerable"

"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."

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

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

"People leave imprints on our lives, shaping who we become in much the same way that a symbol is pressed into the page of a book to tell you who it comes from. Dogs, however, leave paw prints on our lives and our souls, which are as unique as fingerprints in every way."

"They're animals, all right. But why are you so goddam sure that makes us human beings?"

"Hope was an instinct only the reasoning human mind could kill. An animal never knew despair."

"I ask people why they have deer heads on their walls. They always say because it's such a beautiful animal. There you go. I think my mother is attractive, but I have photographs of her."

"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 can no more justify using nonhumans as human resources than we can justify human slavery. Animal use and slavery have at least one important point in common: both institutions treat sentient beings exclusively as resources of others. That cannot be justified with respect to humans; it cannot be justified with respect to nonhumans—however “humanely” we treat them."

"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."

"May all that have life be delivered from suffering"

"Any serious social, political, and economic change must include veganism."

"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."

"Such short little lives our pets have to spend with us, and they spend most of it waiting for us to come home each day. It is amazing how much love and laughter they bring into our lives and even how much closer we become with each other because of them."

"People would rather believe than know."

"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."

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

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