10 quotes for animal lovers

From the site Quotegarden:www.quotegarden.com/
taken from animal-love-club animal-love-club.deviantart.co…
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"Ask the experimenters why they experiment on animals, and the answer is: "Because the animals are like us." 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."
-Charles R. Magel

"God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages."
-Jacques Deval

"The question is not, "Can they reason?" nor, "Can they talk?" but rather, "Can they suffer?"
-Jeremy Bentham

"No one in the world needs a mink coat but a mink."
-Murray Banks

"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."
-Thomas A. Edison

"Hunting is not a sport. In a sport, both sides should know they're in the game."
-Paul Rodriguez

"The squirrel that you kill in jest, dies in earnest."
-Henry David Thoreau

"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."
-Ellen DeGeneres

"If you love animals called pets, why do you eat animals called dinner?"
-www.veganstore.com

"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 creatures that cannot."
-Mark Twain, What Is Man, 1906

"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."
-James Anthony Froude

"The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men."
-Alice Walker

"If a rabbit defined intelligence the way man does, then the most intelligent animal would be a rabbit, followed by the animal most willing to obey the commands of a rabbit."
-Robert Brault

"When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when the tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity."
-George Bernard Shaw

"I abhor vivisection with my whole soul. All the scientific discoveries stained with innocent blood I count as of no consequence."
-Mahatma Gandhi



Thanks for reading, and I hope you found some you liked or agreed with