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Frida Hartley</div> <bR> <div> You remain responsible forever for what you have tamed.</div> <div> ~Antoine St. Exupery</div> <bR> <div> Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight. </div> <div> ~Albert Schweitzer</div> <bR> <div> God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages. </div> <div> ~Jacques Deval, Afin de vivre bel et bien</div> <bR> <div>  If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off  than a lot of humans.</div> <div> ~ James Herriot, English Veterinarian and Author</div> <bR> <div> For fidelity, devotion, love, many a two-legged animal (man) is below the dog and the horse. Happy would it be for thousands of people if they could stand at last before the Judgement Seat and say 'I have loved as truly and I have lived as decently as my dog.' And yet we call them 'only animals'!</div> <div> ~ Henry Ward Beecher, Abolitionist</div> <bR> <div> Even in the worm that crawls in the earth there glows a divine spark. When you slaughter a creature, you slaughter God. </div> <div> ~Isaac Bashevis Singer (author, Nobel 1978) </div> <bR> <div> I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it. </div> <div> ~Abraham Lincoln</div> <bR> <div> When I was twelve, I went hunting with my father and we shot a bird. He was laying there and something struck me. Why do we call this fun to kill this creature [who] was as happy as I was when I woke up this morning. </div> <div> ~Marv Levy</div> <bR> <div> Animals can communicate quite well. And they do. And generally speaking, they are ignored.</div> <div> ~Alice Walker</div> <bR> <div> Heaven is by favor; if it were by merit your dog would go in and you would stay out. </div> <bR> <div> Vivisection is a social evil because if it advances human knowledge, it does so at the expense of human character. </div> <div> ~George Bernard Shaw</div> <bR> <div> To leave the world a bit better...To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived...This is to have succeeded.</div> <div> ~Ralph Waldo Emerson </div> <bR> <div> The time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as now they look upon the murder of men. </div> <div> ~ Leonardo da Vinci</div> <bR> <div> If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, </div> <div> you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men. </div> <div> ~St. Francis of Assisi </div> <bR> <div> ...there is something so very dreadful, so satanic in tormenting those who have never harmed us, </div> <div> and who cannot defend themselves, who are utterly in our power, who have weapons neither of offence nor defence, that none but very hardened persons can endure the thought of it.</div> <div> ~Cardinal Newman </div> <bR> <div> They are slaves who fear to speak</div> <div> For the helpless and the weak.</div> <div> ~James Russell Lowell</div> <bR> <div> "Because one species is more clever than another, does it give it the right to imprison or torture the less clever species? Does one exceptionally clever individual have a right to exploit the less clever individuals of his own species? To say that he does is to say with the Fascists that the strong have a right to abuse and exploit the weak - might is right, and the strong and ruthless shall inherit the earth.</div> <div> ~Richard Ryder </div> <bR> <div> The soul is the same in all living creatures, although the body of each is different.</div> <div> ~Hippocrates (philosopher) </div> <bR> <div> Ask the experimenters why they experiment on animals, and the answer is: "Because the animals are like us." </div> <div> Ask the experimenters why it is morally okay to experiment on animals, and the answer is: "Because the animals are not like us." Animal experimentation rests on a logical contradiction. </div> <div> ~Charles R. Magel</div> <bR> <div> Why should man expect his prayer for mercy to be heard by What is above him when he shows no mercy to what is under him? </div> <div> ~Pierre Troubetzkoy</div> <bR> <div> Hunting is not a sport. In a sport, both sides should know they're in the game.</div> <div> ~Paul Rodriguez</div> <bR> <div> When a man wantonly destroys one of the works of man we call him a vandal. When he destroys one of the works of God we call him a sportsman. </div> <div> ~Joseph Wood Krutch</div> <bR> <div> It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions. </div> <div> ~Mark Twain</div> <bR> <div> The woods were made for the hunters of dreams,</div> <div> The brooks for the fishers of song;</div> <div> To the hunters who hunt for the gunless game</div> <div> The streams and the woods belong.</div> <div> ~Sam Walter Foss</div> <bR> <div> I am not interested to know whether vivisection produces results that are profitable to the human race or doesn't.... The pain which it inflicts upon unconsenting animals is the basis of my enmity toward it, and it is to me sufficient justification of the enmity without looking further. </div> <div> ~Mark Twain</div> <bR> <div> The basis of all animal rights should be the Golden Rule: we should treat them as we would wish them to treat us, were any other species in our dominant position. </div> <div> ~Christine Stevens</div> <bR> <div> I abhor vivisection with my whole soul. All the scientific discoveries stained with innocent blood I count as of no consequence. </div> <div> ~Mahatma Gandhi</div> <bR> <div> I abhor vivisection. It should at least be curbed. Better, it should be abolished. I know of no achievement through vivisection, no scientific discovery, that could not have been obtained without such barbarism and cruelty. The whole thing is evil. </div> <div> ~Charles Mayo, founder of the Mayo Clinic</div> <bR> <div> The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated....I hold that, the more helpless a creature, the more entitled it is to protection by [people] from the cruelty of [human kind].</div> <div> ~Mahatma Ghandi</div> <bR> <div> Until one has loved an animal,  a part of one's soul remains unawakened.</div> <div> ~ Anatole France</div> <bR> <div> There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face.</div> <div> ~ Ben Williams</div> <bR> <div> No heaven will not ever Heaven be;</div> <div> Unless my pets are there to welcome me.</div> <div> ~ Epitate in a Pet Cemetary</div> <bR> <div> Thousands of years ago, cats were worshipped as gods. Cats have never forgotten this.</div> <div> ~ Anonymous</div> <bR> <div> A dog is the only thing on earth that will love you more than you love yourself.</div> <div> ~ Josh Billings</div> <bR> <div> If I have any beliefs about immortality it is that certain dogs I know will go to heaven, and very very few people.</div> <div> ~ James Thurber</div> <bR> <div> The dog represents all that is best in man.</div> <div> ~ Etienne Charlet</div> <bR> <div> An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language.</div> <div> ~ Martin Buber</div> <bR> <div> We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel,  but they do not suffer less because they have no words.</div> <div> ~ Anna Sewell, Black Beauty, 1877</div> <bR> <div> Curiosity is the very basis of education and if you tell me that curiosity killed the cat, I say only the cat died nobly. </div> <div> ~ Arnold Edinborough </div> <bR> <div> You think dogs will not be in Heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.</div> <div> ~Robert Louis Stevenson </div> <bR> <div> You enter into a certain amount of madness when you marry a person with pets. </div> <div> ~Nora Ephron </div> <bR> <div> Always behave like a duck - keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil underneath. </div> <bR> <div> There can be no justification for causing suffering to animals simply to serve man's pleasure or simply to enhance man's lifestyle.</div> <div> ~The Dean of York </div> <bR> <div> It is man's sympathy with all creatures that first makes him truly a man. Until he extends his circle of compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace.</div> <div> ~Albert Einstein </div> <bR> <div> I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being. </div> <div> ~Abraham Lincoln </div> <bR> <div> I have developed a deep respect for animals. I consider them fellow living creatures with certain rights that should not be violated any more than those of humans.</div> <div> ~Jimmy Stewart</div> <bR> <div> The question is not, can they reason? Can they talk? But rather, can they suffer?</div> <div> ~Jeremy Bentham </div> <bR> <div> There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.</div> <div> ~Albert Schweitzer </div> <bR> <div> The silent dog is the first to bite.</div> <div> ~German Proverb </div> <bR> <div> I am more afraid of an army of a hundred sheep led by a lion than an army of a hundred lions led by a sheep.</div> <div> ~Talleyrand (1754-1838) </div> <bR> <div> I once decided not to date a guy because he wasn't excited to meet my dog. I mean, this was like not wanting to meet my mother.</div> <div> ~Bonnie Schacter, Founder of the Single Pet Owner's Society Singles Group </div> <bR> <div> Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent. To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring--it was peace.</div> <div> ~Milan Kundera </div> <bR> <div> He is your friend, your partner, your defender, your dog. You are his life, his love, his leader. He will be yours, faithful and true, to the last beat of his heart. You owe it to him to be worthy of such devotion. </div> <bR> <div> We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again, and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.</div> <div> ~Mark Twain </div> <bR> <div> Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals. And in this respect mankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it." </div> <div> ~Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, 1984 </div> <bR> <div>  Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird. </div> <div> ~Harper Lee, "To Kill a Mockingbird," </div> <bR> <div> I like dogs better [than people]. They give you unconditional love. They either lick your face or bite you, but you always know where they're coming from. With people, you never know which ones will bite. The difference between dogs and men is that you know where dogs sleep at night.</div> <div> ~Greg Louganis </div> <bR> <div> The reason cats climb is so that they can look down on almost ever other animals...it's also the reason they hate birds.</div> <div> ~KC Buffington </div> <bR> <div> The disposition of noble dogs is to be gentle with people they know and the opposite with those they don't know...How, then, can the dog be anything other than a lover of learning since it defines what's its own and what's alien.</div> <div> ~Plato </div> <bR> <div> The really great thing about cats is their endless variety. One can pick a cat to fit almost any kind of decor, color, scheme, income, personality, mood. But under the fur, whatever the colour it may be, there still lies, essentially unchanged, one of the world's free souls.</div> <div> ~Eric Gurney </div> <bR> <div> There are two things for which animals are to be envied: they know nothing of future evils, or of what people say about them.</div> <div> ~Voltaire </div> <bR> <div> The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all.</div> <div> ~Desiderius Erasmus, (1469? - 1536) Dutch scholar, philosopher, author </div> <bR> <div> [Being a parent] is tough. If you just want a wonderful little creature to love, you can get a puppy.</div> <div> ~Barbara Walters </div> <bR> <div>  The squirrel that you kill in jest, dies in earnest.</div> <div> ~Henry David Thoreau </div> <bR> <div> Genius and virtue are to be more often found clothed in gray than in peacock bright.</div> <div> ~Van Wyck Brooks, (1886 - 1963) US literary critic, cultural historian </div> <bR> <div> A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog. </div> <div> ~Jack London </div> <bR> <div> Animals are such agreeable friends--they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.</div> <div> ~George Eliot </div> <bR> <div> The one absolutely unselfish friend that man can have in this selfish world, the one that never deserts him, the one that never proves ungrateful or treacherous, is his dog. . . .He will kiss the hand that has no food to offer; he will lick the wounds and sores that come in encounter with the roughness of the world. . . .When all other friends desert, he remains </div> <div> ~George G. Vest </div> <bR> <div> There is an Indian legend which says when a human dies there is a bridge they must cross to enter into heaven. At the head of that bridge waits every animal that human encountered during their lifetime. The animals, based upon what they know of this person, decide which humans may cross the bridge.... and which are turned away..." </div> <div> ~Unknown </div> <bR> <div> Why does Sea World have a seafood restaurant? I'm halfway through my fishburger and I realize, Oh my God....I could be eating a slow learner.</div> <div> ~Lynda Montgomery </div> <div> (ok, not a very deep quote- but darn funny)</div> <bR> <div>  It always gives me a shiver when I see a cat seeing what I can't see.</div> <div> ~Eleanor Farjeon </div> <bR> <div> What dogs? These are my children, little people with fur who make my heart open a little wider. </div> <div> ~ Oprah Winfrey </div> <bR> <div> Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.</div> <div> ~Henry Vandyke </div> <bR> <div>  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 ought to be.</div> <div> ~William Hazlitt </div> <bR> <div>  If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.</div> <div> ~Unknown </div> <bR> <div> A really companionable and indispensable dog is an accident of nature. You can't get it by breeding for it, and you can't buy it with money. It just happens along.</div> <div> ~ E.B. White, The Care and Training of a Dog </div> <bR> <div> It is astonishing, really, how many thoroughly mature, well-adjusted grown-ups harbor a teddy bear -- which is perhaps why they are thoroughly mature and well-adjusted. </div> <div> ~Joseph Lempa </div> <bR> <div> All cats are grey in the dark. </div> <div> ~Thomas Lodge </div> <bR> <div> All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.</div> <div> ~George Orwell, Animal Farm </div> <bR> <div> How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg?  Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.</div> <div> ~Abraham Lincoln </div> <bR> <div> Love animals: God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled. Do not trouble their joy, don't harass 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 appearance on it, and leave the traces of your foulness after you--alas, it is true of almost every one of us!</div> <div> ~Fyodor Dostoyevsky </div> <bR> <div> Every act of kindness or empathy is always a sort of defiance against the way of the world. </div> <div> ~Matthew Scully</div> <bR> <div> If a man aspires toward a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from injury to animals.</div> <div> ~Leo Tolstoy</div> <bR> <div> The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them, that's the essence of inhumanity.</div> <div> ~ George Bernard Shaw, Irish Playwright and Essayist</div> <bR> <div> The animal liberation movement is saying that where animals and humans have similar interests - we might take the interest in avoiding physical pain as an example, for it is an interest that humans clearly share with other animals - those interests are to be counted equally, with no automatic discount just because one of the beings is not human.</div> <div> ~ Peter Singer, Australian Animal Activist</div> <bR> <div> Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.</div> <div> ~ Thomas Edison, American Inventor and Scientist</div> <div>                          </div> <div> Compassion for animals is intimately connected with goodness of character and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to animals cannot be a good man.</div> <div> ~ Arthur Schopenhauer, German Philosopher</div> <bR> <div> We have enslaved the rest of animal creation and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form.</div> <div> ~ William Ralph Inge, British Author</div> <bR> <div> Living with animals can be a wonderful experience, especially if we choose to learn the valuable lessons animals teach through their natural enthusiasm, grace, resourcefulness, affection and forgiveness.</div> <div> ~ Richard H. Pitcairn, American Veterinarian, Pet Nutritionist and Author</div> <bR> <div>  Most people have forgotten how to live with living creatures, with living systems and that, in turn, is the reason why man, whenever he comes into contact with nature, threatens to kill the natural system in which and from which he lives.</div> <div> ~ Konrad Lorenz, Naturalist</div> <bR> <div>  For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seed of murder and pain cannot reap joy and love.</div> <div> ~ Pythagoras, Pre-Socratic Greek Philosopher</div> <bR> <div>  I could not have slept tonight if I had left that helpless little creature to perish on the ground.</div> <div>  (Reply to friends who chided him for delaying them by stopping to return a fledgling to its nest.)</div> <div> ~ Abraham Lincoln, Sixteenth President of the United States</div> <bR> <div>  Love of animals is a universal impulse, a common ground on which all of us may meet. By loving and understanding animals, perhaps we humans shall come to understand each other.</div> <div> ~ Dr. Louis J. Camuti, first US veterinarian to devote his practice to felines only</div> <bR> <div> Atrocities are no less atrocities when they occur in laboratories and are called 'medical research.'  ~ George Bernard Shaw, Irish Playright and Critic</div> <bR> <div> Show me the enforced laws of a state for the prevention of cruelty to animals and I in turn will                           give you a correct estimate of the refinement, enlightenment, integrity and equity of that                           commonwealth's people.</div> <div> ~ L.T. Danshiell, Animal Rights Advocate</div> <bR> <div>  The awful wrongs and sufferings forced upon the innocent, helpless, faithful animal race form the                           blackest chapter in the whole world's history.</div> <div> ~ Edward Freeman, English Historian and Commentator</div> <bR> <div> Nothing living should ever be treated with contempt.  Whatever it is that lives, a man, a tree, or a bird, should be touched gently, because the time is short. Civilization is another word for respect for life....</div> <div> ~ Elizabeth Goudge, author of The Joy of the Snow</div> <bR> <div> 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.</div> <div> ~ James Herriot, English Veterinarian and Author</div> <bR> <div> All animals except man know that the ultimate of life is to enjoy it.</div> <div> ~ Samuel Butler, British Author, Painter, Photographer, and Art Critic</div> <bR> <div> Cruelty to dumb animals is one of the distinguishing vices of low and base minds. Wherever it is found, it is a certain mark of ignorance and meanness; a mark which all the external advantages of wealth, splendour, and nobility, cannot obliterate. It is consistent neither with learning nor true civility.</div> <div> ~ William Jones, English Philologist and Jurist</div> <bR> <div> When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.</div> <div> ~ Buddha (Siddhartha Gautama), Indian (India) founder of Buddhism religion and philosophy</div> <bR> <div> Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.</div> <div> ~ Martin Luther King, Jr., Civil Rights Leader</div> <bR> <div> Anyone who has accustomed himself to regard the life of any living creature as worthless is in danger of arriving also at the idea of worthless human lives.</div> <div> ~ Albert Schweitzer, Alsatian Theologian, Musician, and Medical Missionary</div> <bR> <div> To inflict cruelties on defenceless creatures, or condone such acts, is to abuse one of the cardinal                           tenets of a civilised society - reverence for life.</div> <div> ~Dr. Jon Evans, England</div> <bR> <div> Human liberation will begin when we understand that our evolution and fulfilment are contingent on the recognition of animal rights and on a compassionate and responsible stewardship of nature.</div> <div> ~ Dr. Michael W. Fox, Animal Activist</div> <bR> <div> If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans.</div> <div> ~ James Herriot, English Veterinarian and Author</div> <bR> <div> The man who regards his own life and that of his fellow creatures as meaningless is not merely unhappy but hardly fit for life.</div> <div> ~ Albert Einstein, American Theoretical Physicist</div> <bR> <div> Custom will reconcile people to any atrocity; and fashion will drive them to acquire any custom.</div> <div> ~ George Bernard Shaw, Irish Playwright and Critic</div> <bR> <div> Never doubt that a small group of concerned citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.</div> <div> ~ Margaret Mead, American Anthropologist</div> <bR> <div> I will not kill or hurt any living creature needlessly, nor destroy any beautiful thing, but will                strive to save and comfort all gentle life, and guard and perfect all natural beauty upon the earth.</div> <div> ~ John Ruskin, English Author and Critic</div> <bR> <div> Many people have learned through relating to animals what it is to care for and accept responsibility for another being.</div> <div> ~ Richard H. Pitcairn, American Veterinarian, Pet Nutritionist and Author</div> <bR> <div> It seems to me of great importance to teach children respect for life. Towards this end, experiments on living animals in classrooms should be stopped. To encourage cruelty in the name of science can only destroy the finer emotions of affection and sympathy, and breed an unfeeling callousness in the young towards suffering in all living creatures.</div> <div> ~ Eleanor Roosevelt, former First Lady of the United States of America</div> <bR> <div> Love is what extended her life. She had to give it as much as receive it to be happy. Dogs [indeed, all animals] extend our lives, if the truth be known.</div> <div> ~Diane Bethel, Web Developer of WagSouth productions speaking of Charmin, her American Eskimo who lived 15 years</div> <bR> <div> It is not just that animals make the world more scenic or picturesque. The lives of animals are woven into our very being - closer than our own breathing - and our souls will suffer when they are gone.</div> <div> ~ Gary Kowalski, Author of The Souls of Animals</div> <bR> <div> Our treatment of animals will someday be considered barbarous. There cannot be perfect civilization until man realizes that the rights of every living creature are as sacred as his own.</div> <div> ~ Dr. David Starr Jordan, American Biologist and Educator</div> <bR> <div> We cannot have peace among men whose hearts find delight in killing any living creature.</div> <div> ~ Rachel Carson, American Author and Marine Biologist</div> <bR> <div> The brute animals have all the same sensations of pain as human beings, and consequently endure as much pain when their body is hurt; but in their case the cruelty of torment is greater, because they have no mind to bear them up against their sufferings, and no hope to look forward to when enduring the last extreme pain...</div> <div> ~ Thomas Chalmers, Scottish Religious Leader</div> <bR> <div> True benevolence or compassion, extends itself through the whole of existence and sympathizes with the distress of every creature capable of sensation. </div> <div> ~ Joseph Addison, English Poet</div> <bR> <div> Life is life's greatest gift. Guard the life of another creature as you would your own because it is                           your own. On life's scale of values, the smallest is no less precious to the creature who owns it than the largest...</div> <div> ~ Lloyd Biggle Jr. (1923-)</div> <bR> <div> A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as well as that of his fellowman, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help.</div> <div> ~ Dr. Albert Schweitzer, Alsatian Theologian, Musician, and Medical Missionary</div> <bR> <div> My doctrine is this: that if we see cruelty or wrong that we have the power to stop, and we do nothing, we make ourselves sharers in the guilt.</div> <div> ~ Anna Sewell, English Novelist</div> <bR> <div> Providing food and shelter is not proving love for your pet. Those too, but proper care and protection from harm make the truest sense of responsible pet ownership.</div> <div> ~ John D. Carraway, DVM, enscribed hanging office plaque of his professional motto</div> <bR> <div> 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.</div> <div> ~ Immanuel Kant, German Philosopher</div> <bR> <div> We cannot glimpse the essential life of a caged animal, only the shadow of its former beauty.</div> <div> ~ Julia Allen Field</div> <div>                         </div> <div> The assumption that animals are without rights, and the illusion that our treatment of them has no moral significance, is a positively outrageous example of Western crudity and barbarity. Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.</div> <div> ~ Arthur Schopenhauer, German Philosopher</div> <bR> <div> A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to                           assist, and shrinks from injuring anything that lives.</div> <div> ~ Albert Schweitzer, Alsatian Theologian, Musician, and Medical Missionary</div> <bR> <div> Cherish the wonderful ways our animals are models of living life to the fullest, loving unconditionally, embracing the passion within, and being completely in the present moment.</div> <div> ~ Susan White</div> <bR> <div> I have always felt that the way we treat animals is a pretty good indicator of the compassion we are capable of for the human race.</div> <div> ~ Ali McGraw, American Actress</div> <bR> <div> Of all the creatures, man is the most detestable. Of the entire brood, he's the one that possesses malice. He is the only creature that inflicts pain for sport, knowing it to be pain. The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.</div> <div> ~ Mark Twain, American Novelist</div> <bR> <div> What is man without the beasts? If all the beasts were gone, men would die from great loneliness of spirit. For whatever happens to the beasts, soon happens to man. All things are connected.</div> <div> ~ Chief Seattle American Indian Duwamish Tribe</div> <bR> <div> True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power.  Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals.  And in this respect mankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem                           from it.</div> <div> ~ Milan Kundera, Czech Novelist</div> <bR> <div> If only we can overcome cruelty, to human and animal, with love and compassion we shall stand at the threshold of a new era in human moral and spiritual evolution - and realize, at last, our most unique quality: humanity.</div> <div> ~ Jane Goodall, Author of Reason for Hope</div> <bR> <div> Until we have the courage to recognize cruelty for what it is...whether its victim is human or                           animal...we cannot expect things to be much better in this world...We cannot have peace among men whose hearts delight in killing any living creature. By every act that glorifies or even tolerates such moronic delight in killing we set back the progress of humanity.</div> <div> ~ Rachel Carson, American Biologist and Novelist</div> <bR> <div> We must fight against the spirit of unconscious cruelty with which we treat the animals. Animals                           suffer as much as we do. True humanity does not allow us to impose such sufferings on them. It is our duty to make the whole world recognize it.  Until we extend our circle of compassion to all living things, humanity will not find peace.</div> <div> ~ Albert Schweitzer, Alsatian Theologian, Musician, and Medical Missionary</div> <bR> <div> The man who kills the animals today is the man who  kills the people who get in his way tomorrow.</div> <div> ~ Dr. Diane Fossey, Woman in the Mists</div> <bR> <div> To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards out of men.</div> <div> ~ Abraham Lincoln, Sixteenth President of the United States</div> <bR> <div>  Cruelty to animals is one of the most significant vices of a low and ignoble people. Wherever one                           notices them, they constitute a sign of ignorance and brutality which cannot be painted over even by all the evidence of wealth and luxury.</div> <div> ~ Alexander Von Humbolt, German Naturalist</div> <bR> <div> The quiet conscience is the invention of the devil.  No one of us may permit any preventable pain to be inflicted even though the responsibility for that pain is not ours. No one may shut his eyes and think that the pain which is therefore not visible, is nonexistent.</div> <div> ~ Albert Schweitzer, Alsatian Theologian, Musician, and Medical Missionary</div> <bR> <div> You cannot do a kindness too soon, because you never know how soon it will be too late.</div> <div> ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Essayist and Philosopher</div> <bR> <div> All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.</div> <div> ~ James Russell Lowell, American Poet and Essayist</div> <bR> <div> Very little of the great cruelty shown by men can really be attributed to cruel instinct. Most of it                           comes from thoughtlessness or inherited habit. The roots of cruelty, therefore, are not so much strong as widespread. But the time will come when inhumanity protected by custom and thoughtlessness will succumb before humanity championed by thought. Let us work that this time may come.</div> <div> ~ Albert Schweitzer, Alsatian Theologian, Musician, and Medical Missionary</div> <bR> <div> To close your eyes will not ease another's pain.</div> <div> ~ Chinese Proverb</div> <bR> <div> The most solid comfort one can fall back upon is the thought that the business of one's life is to help in some small way to reduce the sum of ignorance, degradation, and misery on this earth.</div> <div> ~ George Eliot, Female English Novelist (Mary Ann Evans)</div> <bR> <div> These birds and animals and fish cannot speak, but they can suffer, and our God who created them, knows their sufferings, and will hold him who causes them to suffer unnecessarily to answer for it. It is a sin against their Creator.</div> <div> ~ George Q. Cannon, Animal Activist</div> <bR> <div>  Cruelty to dumb animals is one of the distinguishing vices of the lowest and basest of the people - wherever it is found, it is a certain mark of ignorance and meanness.</div> <div> ~ Jones of Nayland</div> <bR> <div> It is totally unconscionable to subject defenseless animals to mutilation and death, just so a company can be the first to market a new shade of nail polish or a new, improved laundry detergent...It's cruel, it's brutal, it's inhumane, and most people don't want it.</div> <div> ~ Abigail 'Dear Abby' Van Buren Testifying before the House Judiciary Committee in support of the Consumer Products Safe Testing Act, March 1988</div> <bR> <div> Love of animals is a universal impulse, a common ground on which all of us may meet. By loving and understanding animals, perhaps we humans shall come to understand each other.</div> <div> ~ Louis J. Camuti, D.V.M.,  First American vet to devote his practice exclusively to cats</div> <bR> <div> Take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.</div> <div> ~ Elie Wiesel, Romanian-American Writer</div> <bR> <div> If a good relation with God makes people good and benevolent in their relation with animals, for its part, benevolence toward animals could awaken in man's heart feelings of admiration and praise for the grandiose work of the Creator of the Universe.</div> <div> ~ Marie Hendrickx, Theologian of the Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith</div> <bR> <div> Any glimpse into the life of an animal quickens our own and makes it so much the larger and better in every way.</div> <div> ~ John Muir, Environmentalist</div> <bR> <div> We need another and a wiser and perhaps more mystical concept of animals. Remote from universal nature, and living by complicated artifice, man in civilization surveys the creature through the glass of his knowledge and sees thereby a feather magnified and the                           whole image in distortion. We patronize them [other animals] for their incompleteness, for their tragic fate of having taken form so far below ourselves. And therein we err, and greatly err. For the animal shall not be measured by man. In a world older and more complete than ours, they move finished and complete, gifted with extensions of the sense we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear.  They are not brethren; they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendor and                           travail of earth.</div> <div> ~ Henry Beston, The Outermost House</div> <bR> <div> The more that people live with animals, the more they know how precious they are and what they do to enhance our lives.</div> <div> ~ Doris Day, Actress, Animal Activist</div> <bR> <div> All that breathes is precious. Who is to say that the suffering of an animal is less worthy of solace than the pain of man? The spark of life is no dimmer simply because it is encased in fur or leather. ~ Anonymous </div> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>