There will be no justice as long as man will stand with a knife or with a gun and destroy those who are weaker than he is.
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There will be no justice as long as man will stand with a knife or with a gun and destroy those who are weaker than he is.
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.
We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.
As long as people will shed the blood of innocent creatures there can be no peace, no liberty, no harmony between people. Slaughter and justice cannot dwell together.
It takes nothing away from a human to be kind to an animal.
We consume the carcasses of creatures of like appetites, passions and organs with our own, and fill the slaughterhouses daily with screams of pain and fear.
Animal factories are one more sign of the extent to which our technological capacities have advanced faster than our ethics.
If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.
The Utopians feel that slaughtering our fellow creatures gradually destroys the sense of compassion, which is the finest sentiment of which our human nature is capable.
I'd like to see animals removed from the entertainment business. Chimpanzees and apes won't perform unless you beat them. Circuses keep elephants in chains 90 percent of the time. Elephants need freedom of movement. In circuses, they live in cramped quarters, which is not the life intended for them by nature. Some are beaten daily, forced to do ridiculous tricks and robbed of every shred of dignity.
We are, quite literally, gambling with the future of our planet- for the sake of hamburgers
I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens.
My body will not be a tomb for other creatures.
Every man who has ever been earnest to preserve his higher or poetic faculties in the best condition, has been particularly inclined to abstain from animal food
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.
Slaughter and justice cannot dwell together.
Your choice of diet can influence your long term health prospects more than any other action you might take.
People often say that humans have always eaten animals, as if this is a justification for continuing the practice. According to this logic, we should not try to prevent people from murdering other people, since this has also been done since the earliest of times.
If there would come a voice from God saying, 'I'm against vegetarianism!' I would say, 'Well, I am for it!' This is how _x000D_ strongly I feel in this regard.
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