“Why should you call me to account for eating decently? If I battened on the scorched corpses of animals, you might well ask me why I did that. Why should I be filthy and inhuman? Why should I be an accomplice in the wholesale horror and degradation of the slaughter-house?”— George Bernard Shaw, amazon.com
“It annoys me a bit how people like squirrels but not rats. at the end of the day they're the same thing, except that squirrels have had a better upbringing.”— Karl Pilkington, amazon.com
“From sunrise to sunset, I was in the forest, sometimes far from the house, with my goat who watched me as a mother does a child. All the animals in the forest became my friends, even dangerous and poisonous ones. Thanks to my goat-mother and my Indian nurse, I have always enjoyed the trust of animal…”— Diego Rivera, amazon.com
“I grew up hunting since I was a very little kid as did many/most of my peers in Alabama. One friend, a constant hunter, traveled through Africa as an adult where he shot and killed an elephant. He later described it as the worst thing he had ever done 'like killing a human being.'”— Mat Honan, twitter.com
“To hell with them dogs. They treat 'em better than us. They rush us outta' here like animals.”— George Kennedy, imdb.com
“I think using animals for food is an ethical thing to do, but we've got to do it right. We've got to give those animals a decent life and we've got to give them a painless death. We owe the animal respect.”— Temple Grandin, goodreads.com
“Most people don't realize that the slaughter plant is much gentler than nature. Animals in the wild die from starvation, predators, or exposure. If I had a choice, I would rather go through a slaughter system than have my guts ripped out by coyotes or lions while I was still conscious. Unfortunately…”— Temple Grandin, amazon.com
“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.”— Arthur Schopenhauer, amazon.com
“We are storytelling animals, and cannot bear to acknowledge the ordinariness of our daily lives.”— Stephen Jay Gould, amazon.com
“Small animals live fast and die young. Big animals plod along. The speed of life for animals—the rate at which their cells burn energy, the speed of their muscle twitches, the time it takes them to gestate or to mature—is remarkably proportional to their life span and size.”— Kevin Kelly, amazon.com
“Compassion for animals is intimately connected with goodness of character; and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to animals cannot be a good man or woman.”— Arthur Schopenhauer, amazon.com
“Animal lovers are a special breed of humans, generous of spirit, full of empathy, perhaps a little prone to sentimentality, and with hearts as big as a cloudless sky.”— John Grogan, amazon.com
“For at least the last 60 years, we’ve lived in a new geological period, the Anthropocene, in which humans are radically reshaping the planet. We can affect the atmosphere, and the sea levels, and the planet’s overall level of biodiversity and we can also choose which animals to value and protect. An…”— John Green, youtube.com