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No animal admires another animal.

This dog is mine," said those poor children; "that is my place in the sun." Here is the beginning an...

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Animals! the object of insatiable interest, examples of the riddle of life, created, as it were, to ...

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Bruno SchulzThe Street of Crocodiles

Humans — who enslave, castrate, experiment on, and fillet other animals — have had an understandable...

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Even if we ourselves are not personally scandalized by the notion of other animals as close relative...

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Carl SaganShadows of Forgotten Ancestors

Animals are inspirational. They don’t know how to lie. They are natural forces.

animals never worry about Heaven or Hell. neither do I. maybe that's why we get along

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Charles BukowskiThe Last Night of the Earth Poems

the world is better withoutthem.only the plants and the animals aretrue comrades.I drink to them and...

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Charles BukowskiYou Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense

Besides love and sympathy, animals exhibit other qualities connected with the social instincts which...

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All his life he tried to be a good person. Many times, however, he failed.For after all, he was only...

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As he once wrote of Kipling, his own enduring influence can be measured by a number of terms and phr...

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Do you know why most survivors of the Holocaust are vegan? It's because they know what it's like to ...

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Listening, it occurred to Randall that the love people feel for animals is the purest form of love. ...

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Chuck PalahniukMake Something Up: Stories You Can't Unread

Most people don't realize it, because they're invisible, but microbes make up about a half of the Ea...

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I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself.

Don't you find it a beautiful clean thought, a world empty of people, just uninterrupted grass, and ...

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If frogs had side pockets, they'd carry hand guns.

If God had wanted us to be concerned for the plight of the toads, he would have made them cute and f...

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The men who are dropped in a jungle or a desert and expected video games and got mundanity and depra...

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Steve Irwin did wonderful conservation work but I was uncomfortable about some of his stunts. Even i...

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I like animals. I like natural history. The travel bit is not the important bit. The travel bit is w...

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I love things made out of animals. It's just so funny to think of someone saying, 'I need a letter o...

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I love things made out of animals. It's just so funny to think of someone saying, "I need a letter o...

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Petting, scratching, and cuddling a dog could be as soothing to the mind and heart as deep meditatio...

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I waited for him to come out. He didn't. I considered going in after him, but knew the fact that I h...

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Derrick JensenA Language Older Than Words

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

Why was it, she asked herself, that "animals can sometimes subdue their predatory ways in only a few...

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At some point, one asks, "Toward what end is my life lived?" A great freedom comes from being able t...

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Diane AckermanThe Rarest of the Rare: Vanishing Animals

Europe enjoyed a heritage of fairy tales alive with talking animals--some almost real, other delicio...

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The faint pink coating the treetops promised rippling buds, a sure sign of spring hastening in, righ...

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Diane AckermanThe Zookeeper's Wife

From sunrise to sunset, I was in the forest, sometimes far from the house, with my goat who watched ...

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I do remember how it was to be poor. I do remember that in my early years, we had to grow and raise ...

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Well I do find the beauty in animals. I find beauty everywhere. I find beauty in my garden.

I watched bulls bred to cows, watched mares foal, I saw life come from the egg and the multiplicativ...

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E. L. DoctorowLives of the Poets: A Novella and Six Stories

Watch any plant or animal and let it teach you acceptance of what is, surrender to the Now.Let it te...

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Eckhart TolleThe Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore.

In its various forms, so far as we know them, Love seems always to have a deep significance and a mo...

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Edward CarpenterThe Intermediate Sex: A Study of Some Transitional Types of Men and Women

Animals don't hate, and we're supposed to be better than them.

I ask people why they have deer heads on their walls. They always say because it's such a beautiful ...

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If you want to test cosmetics, why do it on some poor animal who hasn't done anything? They should u...

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We're all just animals. That's all we are, and everything else is just an elaborate justification of...

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I ask Laurie if it's possible to get trained fish. Lindsay says this is how we know I've never produ...

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Emma ThompsonThe Sense and Sensibility Screenplay and Diaries: Bringing Jane Austen's Novel to Film

The musician is perhaps the most modest of animals, but he is also the proudest. It is he who invent...

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The gypsies believe the bear to be a brother to man because he has the same body beneath his hide, b...

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One who is kind is sympathetic and gentle with others. He is considerate of others' feelings and cou...

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How is it that animals understand things I do not know, but it is certain that they do understand. P...

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How it is that animals understand things I do not know, but it is certain that they do understand. P...

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How is it that animals understand things I do not know, but it is certain that they do understand. P...

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If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you...

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A killer with the manners of a rabbit - this is the most dangerous kind.

Experiments with animals have long been handicapped by our anthropocentric attitude: We often test t...

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Popular culture bombards us with examples of animals being humanized for all sorts of purposes, rang...

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Unlike the primate hand, the elephant's grasping organ is also its nose. Elephants use their trunks ...

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[T]he term 'nonhuman' grates on me, since it lumps millions of species together by an absence, as if...

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Frans de WaalAre We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?

The beauty in the genome is of course that it's so small. The human genome is only on the order of a...

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The discerning one walketh amongst men as amongst animals.

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Friedrich NietzscheThus Spoke Zarathustra

He said that people who loved [animals] to excess were capable of the worst cruelties toward human b...

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Dogs were not loyal but servile, that cats were opportunists and traitors,

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Gabriel García MárquezLove in the Time of Cholera

An abolitionist is, as I have developed that notion, one who (1) maintains that we cannot justify an...

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We should not be surprised that more and more people feel comfortable about consuming animal product...

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We should always be clear that animal exploitation is wrong because it involves speciesism. And spec...

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Veganism is an act of nonviolent defiance. It is our statement that we reject the notion that animal...

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I reject animal welfare reform and single-issue campaigns because they are not only inconsistent wit...

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We should never present flesh as somehow morally distinguishable from dairy. To the extent it is mor...

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We do not need to eat animals, wear animals, or use animals for entertainment purposes, and our only...

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If we are ever going to see a paradigm shift, we have to be clear about how we want the present para...

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Animals are property. There are laws that supposedly protect animal interestsin being treated “human...

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Being vegan is easy. Are there social pressures that encourage you to continue to eat, wear, and use...

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There is increasing social concern about our use of nonhumans for experiments, food, clothing and en...

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If we take the position that an assessment that veganism is morally preferable to vegetarianism is n...

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The notion that we should promote “happy” or “humane” exploitation as “baby steps” ignores that welf...

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If you are not vegan, please consider going vegan. It’s a matter of nonviolence. Being vegan is your...

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To say that a being who is sentient has no interest in continuing to live is like saying that a bein...

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Forty-two years after Dr. King was murdered, we are still a nation of inequality. People of color, w...

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So it is always preferable to discuss the matter of veganism in a non-judgemental way. Remember that...

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The rights paradigm, which, as I interpret it, morally requires the abolition of animal exploitation...

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You cannot live a nonviolent life as long as you are consuming violence. Please consider going vegan...

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I am opposed to animal welfare campaigns for two reasons. First, if animal use cannot be morally jus...

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Speciesism is morally objectionable because, like racism, sexism, and heterosexism, it links personh...

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

Ethical veganism results in a profound revolution within the individual; a complete rejection of the...

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

There are some animal advocates who say that to maintain that veganism is the moral baseline is obje...

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I have argued that this sort of thinking is problematic in at least two regards:First, the notion th...

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Ethical veganism represents a commitment to nonviolence.

Veganism is about nonviolence. It is about not engaging in harm to other sentient beings; to oneself...

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May all that have life be delivered from suffering

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

Animals are such agreeable friends they ask no questions pass no criticisms.

Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions they pass no criticisms.

Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions they pass no criticisms.

Animals are such agreeable friends―they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.

Fighting is found everywhere in the animal kingdom and nowhere so much as among human animals. Anima...

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All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.

All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.