Animals can communicate quite well. And they do. And generally speaking, they are ignored
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Animals can communicate quite well. And they do. And generally speaking, they are ignored
Lots of people talk to animals... Not very many listen, though... That's the problem.
Love the animals: God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled.
Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.
We cannot have peace among men whose hearts find delight in killing any living creature.
The squirrel that you kill in jest, dies in earnest.
We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.
If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.
When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.
Truly man is the king of beasts, for his brutality exceeds them. We live by the death of others. We are burial places.
A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite.
Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends.
Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.
The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.
I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.
The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.
Compassion for animals is intimately associated with goodness of character, and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to animals cannot be a good man.
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