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William Blake
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| "A young man came before the Rasul with a carpet and said, "O Rasul!
I passed through a wood and heard the voices of young birds; and I took
and put them into my carpet; and their mother came fluttering around my
head, and I uncovered the young, and the mother fell down upon them, then
I wrapped them up in my carpet; and there are the young which I have."
Then the Rasul said, "Put them down." And when he did so, their mother
joined them: and Muhammad said, "Do you wonder at the affection of the
mother towards her young? I swear by Him who hath sent me, verily God is
more loving to His creatures than the mother to these young birds. Return
them to the place from which ye took them, and let their mother be with
them."" | |
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Prophet Muhammad
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| "All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than
others." | |
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George Orwell
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| "Animals are reliable, many full of love, true in their affections,
predictable in their actions, grateful and loyal. Difficult standards for
people to live up to." | |
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Alfred Armand Montapert
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| "Animals have these advantages over man: They never hear the clock
strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to
instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and
unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts
lawsuits over their wills." | |
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Francois Voltaire
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| "Even snakes are afraid of snakes." | |
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Steven Wright
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| "Every animal knows far more than you do." | |
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Yellow Wolf
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| "Every animal knows more than you do." | |
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Proverb
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| "Every creature is a word of God." | |
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Meister Eckhart
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| "For too long we have occupied ourselves with responding to the
consequences of cruelty and abuse and have neglected the important task of
building up an ethical system in which justice for animals is regarded as
the norm rather than the exception. Our only hope is to put our focus on
the education of the young." | |
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John Hoyt
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| "From thence the beasts be brought in, killed and clean washed by the
hands of their bondsmen. For they permit not their free citizens to
accustom themselves to the killing of beasts, through the use whereof they
think clemency, the gentlest affection of our nature, by little and little
to decay and perish." | |
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Thomas Moore
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| "I could not have slept tonight if I had left that helpless little
creature to perish on the ground. (reply to friends who chided him for
delaying them by stopping to return a fledgling to its nest.)" | |
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Abraham Lincoln
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| "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 ...[They] are an obligation put on us, a
responsibility we have no right to neglect, nor to violate by
cruelty." | |
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James Herriot
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| "I never liked my own species. On why so many of his comics are about
animals, in an interview." | |
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Gary Larsen
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| "I never saw a wild thing Sorry for itself." | |
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David Herbert Lawrence
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| "I sincerely congratulate you on the arrival of the mockingbird.
Learn all the children to venerate it as a superior being in the form of a
bird, or as a being which will haunt them if any harm is done to itself or
its eggs." | |
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Thomas Jefferson
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| "I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and
self-contained, I stand and look at them long and long." | |
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Walt Whitman
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| "If a man aspires towards a righteous life, his first act of
abstinence is from injury to animals." | |
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Count Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
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| "If someone wants a sheep, then that means that he exists." | |
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Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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| "If you have men who will exclude any of God"s creatures from the
shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who deal likewise with
their fellow men." | |
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Saint Francis of Assisi
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| "If [man] is not to stifle his human feelings, he must practise
kindness towards animals, for he who is cruel to animals becomes hard also
in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment
of animals." | |
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Immanuel Kant
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| "It is just like man"s vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb
because it is dumb to his dull perceptions." | |
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Mark Twain
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| "Just because an animal is large, it doesn"t mean he doesn"t want
kindness; however big Tigger seems to be, remember that he wants as much
kindness as Roo." | |
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Alan Alexander Milne
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| "Love animals: God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy
untroubled. Do not trouble their joy, don"t harrass them, don"t deprive
them of their happiness, don"t work against God"s intent. Man, do not
pride yourself on superiority to animals; they are without sin, and you,
with your greatness, defile the earth by your apppearance on it, and leave
the traces of your foulness after you ? alas, it is true of almost every
one of us!" | |
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Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky
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| "Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only
animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what
they might have been." | |
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William Hazlitt
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| "Most sorts of diversion, in men, children and other animals, are an
imitation of fighting." | |
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Jonathan Swift
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| "My favorite animal is steak." | |
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Fran Lebowitz
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| "Never feed the foxes! What does that mean? Breaking commandments is
like feeding foxes. In England where we live, my wife and I had heard that
foxes were right in town. We wanted to see a fox. A neighbor told us that
if we left food for the foxes we probably would see one. Our butcher gave
us some bones. Each night we would place some bones out in the backyard.
Soon a fox came to eat. Then a few more. Now we have at least five foxes
racing through our flower garden, digging up the lawn, and leaving a
shamble every night, sort of like a furry Jurassic Park. What started out
as a curiosity is now a problem, and sin is much the same. An indiscretion
can begin a process that can make a mess of a whole life. Remember, if you
don"t start feeding the foxes, they will never tear up your yard. If you
avoid making the seemingly small and harmless mistakes, your life will be
free of many larger problems later on." | |
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Hugh W. Pinnock
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| "Odd things: animals. All dogs look up to you. All cats look down to
you. Only the pig looks at you as an equal." | |
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Sir Winston Churchill
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| "One main factor in the upward trend of animal life has been the
power of wandering." | |
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Alfred North Whitehead
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| "People buy products for what they can do, not for what they
are." | |
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F. G. "Buck" Rodgers
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| "Save the whales. Collect the whole set." | |
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Unknown
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| "TAIL, n. The part of an animal"s spine that has transcended its
natural limitations to set up an independent existence in a world of its
own." | |
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Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
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| "The behaviour of men to the lower animals, and their behaviour to
each other, bear a constant relationship." | |
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Herbert Spencer
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| "The good life is the healthful life, the merry life. Life is health,
joy, laughter." | |
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Jean Bodin
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| "The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by
the way its animals are treated." | |
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Mahatma Gandhi
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| "The lion is not so fierce as painted." | |
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Thomas Fuller
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| "The old assumption that animals acted exclusively by instinct, while
man had a monopoly of reason, is, we think, maintained by few people
nowadays who have any knowledge at all about animals. We can only wonder
that so absurd a theory could have been held for so long a time as it was,
when on all sides the evidence if animals" power of reasoning is
crushing." | |
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Ernest Bell
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| "The Owl and the Pussy-Cat went to sea In a beautiful pea-green boat.
They took some honey, and plenty of money, Wrapped up in a five-pound note.
The Owl looked up to the Stars above And sang to a small guitar, "O lovely
Pussy! O Pussy, my love, What abeautiful Pussy you are ? You are ? What a
beautiful Pussy you are." | |
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Edward Lear
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| "Toads are conservative animals, I think, and not much given to
expecting the best from fortune. Some weeks ago, well before the end of
October, I accidentally dug up one while turning over some garden earth. I
was surprised, naturally, when one of the clods heaved over on its die and
there, in some annoyance, sat at toad." | |
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Henry Mitchell
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| "We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated
our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if
they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in
human form." | |
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Dr. William Ralph Inge
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| "We have never understood why men mount the heads of animals and hang
them up to look down on their conquerers. Possibly it feels good to these
men to feel superior to animals, but does it not seem that if they were
sure of it they would not have to prove it? Often a man who is afraid must
constantly demonstrate his courage and, in the case of the hunter, must
keep a tangible record of his courage." | |
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John Ernst Steinbeck
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| "We"re poor little lambs who"ve lost our way, Baa! Baa! Baa! We"re
little black sheep who"ve gone astray, Baa-aa-aa! Gentlemen-rankers out on
the spree, Damned from here to Eternity, God ha" mercy on such as we, Baa!
Yah! Bah!" | |
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Rudyard Kipling
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| "What with our hooks, snares, nets, and dogs, we are at war with all
living creatures, and nothing comes amiss but that which is either too
cheap or too common; and all this is to gratify a fantastical
palate." | |
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Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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| "Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the
torture and death of his fellow creatures is Amusing in itself." | |
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Froude
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| "Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the
torture and death of his fellow-creatures is amusing in itself." | |
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James Anthony Froude
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| "Yeah, I think it"s an absolute disaster that Australia, the
government, allowed kangaroo culling." | |
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Steve Irwin
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| "You can muffle the drum, and you can loosen the strings of the lyre,
but who shall command the skylark not to sing?" | |
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Kahlil Gibran
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