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Thousands of people who say they "love" animals sit down once or twice a day to enjoy the flesh of creatures who have been utterly deprived of everything that could make their lives worth living and who endured the awful suffering and the terror of the abattoirs...

...it honestly didn't matter how we humans got to be the way we are, whether evolution or special creation was responsible. What mattered and mattered desperately was our future development. Were we going to go on destroying God's creation, fighting each other, hurting the other creatures of the His planet?

Farm animals are far more aware and intelligent than we ever imagined and, despite having been bred as domestic slaves, they are individual beings in their own right. As such, they deserve our respect. And our help. Who will plead for them if we are silent? Thousands of people who say they ‘love’ animals sit down once or twice a day to enjoy the flesh of creatures who have been treated so with little respect and kindness just to make more meat.

We have so far to go to realize our human potential for compassion, altruism, and love.

And always I have this feeling--which may not be true at all--that I am being used as a messenger.

Lasting change is a series of compromises. And compromise is all right, as long your values don't change.

A sense of calm came over me. More and more often I found myself thinking, "This is where I belong. This is what I came into this world to do.

One thing I had learned from watching chimpanzees with their infants is that having a child should be fun.

....I understood why those who had lived through war or economic disasters, and who had built for themselves a good life and a high standard of living, were rightly proud to be able to provide for their children those things which they themselves had not had. And why their children, inevitably, took those things for granted. It meant that new values and new expectations had crept into our societies along with new standards of living. Hence the materialistic and often greedy and selfish lifestyle of so many young people in the Western world, especially in the United States.

If we do not do something to help these creatures, we make a mockery of the whole concept of justice.

The greatest danger to our future is apathy.

What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.

I think the best evenings are when we have messages, things that make us think, but we can also laugh and enjoy each other's company.