World

Quote	Author or source	vocation, country, awards	year, (BC) birth, est.	death (BC)	notes	earth, environ	world peace	world hunger	celeb, liter
Most of the public lands in the West, and especially the Southwest, are what you might call cow burnt. Almost anywhere and everywhere you go in the American West you find hordes of [cows].... They are a pest and a plague. They pollute our springs and streams and rivers. They infest our canyons, valleys, meadows, and forests. They graze off the native bluestems and grama and bunch grasses, leaving behind jungles of prickly pear. They trample down the native forbs and shrubs and cacti. They spread the exotic cheatgrass, the Russian thistle, and the crested wheat grass. Weeds. Even when the cattle are not physically present, you see the dung and the flies and the mud and the dust and the general destruction. If you don't see it, you'll smell it. The whole American West stinks of cattle.	Abbey, Edward	conservationist and author, in a speech before cattlemen at the University of Montana in 1985	1927			1
In the killing of animals there is cruelty, rage, and the accustoming of oneself to the bad habit of shedding innocent blood.	Albo, Rabbi Joseph	Sephardic philosopher	1380	1444			2
I am sometimes asked: ‘Why do you spend so much of your time and money talking about kindness to animals when there is so much cruelty to men?’ I answer: ‘I am working at the roots.’	Angell, George T.	Founder of Massachusetts SPCA	1823	1909	from 1884 speech		1
I have enforced the law against killing certain animals and many others, but the greatest progress of righteousness among men comes from the exhortation in favour of non-injury to life and abstention from killing all living beings.	Asoka	King of India	(273)	(232)	from Asoka's Edicts		3
We need to bring home to people that all cruel behaviour, whoever or whatever the victims, is the expression of a deep evil flaw in human nature, and that all who oppose and fight it, in whatever form, are crusading against a curse that could destroy us all.	Baker, Rev. Dr. John Austin	Bishop of Salisbury, England 1982-1993	1985				1
Cruelty is the obvious cancer of modern civilization.	Beldon, Rev. A. D.						1
Let us not think that [vegetarianism] is the end in itself. It is a means only to an end, and we must not be content to be vegetarians only. The end is the civilisation of the universal feeling of brotherhood, on which it rests, not towards animals only, but towards all men . . . our treatment of our fellow-humans is largely reflected from our behaviour towards the sub-human races. As long as our ethics in this matter are based on barbaric cruelty and selfish tyranny it will forever be well-nigh impossible to attain a high and just social morality.	Bell, Ernest	International Vegetarian Union Congress President (UK) , 1923-1926	1851	1933	Pres. of Vegetarian Society, Manchester, UK		1
The American fast food diet and the meat eating habits of the wealthy around the world support a world food system that diverts food resources from the hungry. A diet higher in whole grains and legumes and lower in beef and other meat is not just healthier for ourselves but also contributes to changing the world system that feeds some people and leaves others hungry.	Bello, Dr. Walden							1
The fact is that there is enough food in the world for everyone. But tragically, much of the world's food and land resources are tied up in producing beef and other livestock--food for the well off--while millions of children and adults suffer from malnutrition and starvation.	Bello, Dr. Walden							1
I have been a vegetarian for about 10 years. And it really was due to the reading that I did. And they explain so that you understand why it's important for the planet's survival along with compassion for animals. It certainly made it much easier for me. I lost weight really fast. My mother died from cancer so this is all very personal to me. And I just would like the planet to be a better place. And I think you'll find a vegetarian diet to be really incredible these days.	Blair, Linda							2	y
The eating of meat extinguishes the seed of great compassion.	Buddha		(563)	(483)			1
It is a surprisingly close progression from hunting animals to hunting and torturing people.. catching and lynching blacks or smoking out Jews during the Holocaust.	Cantor, Aviva	MS Magazine, 1983	1983				1
Until we have the courage to recognize cruelty for what it is--whether its victim is human or animal--we cannot expect things to be much better in this world... We cannot have peace among men whose hearts delight in killing any living creature. By every act that glorifies or even tolerates such moronic delight in killing we set back the progress of humanity.	Carson, Rachel	American writer, biologist	1907	1964			1
For hundreds of thousands of years the stew in the pot has brewed hatred and resentment that is difficult to stop. If you wish to know why there are disasters of armies and weapons in the world, listen to the piteous cries from the slaughter house at midnight.	Chinese verse, ancient						1
The real cure for our environmental problems is to understand that our job is to salvage Mother Nature...We are facing a formidable enemy in this field. It is the hunters...and to convince them to leave their guns on the wall is going to be very difficult.	Cousteau, Jacques					1			y
Many things made me become a vegetarian, among them. the higher food yield as a solution to world hunger.	Denver, John	U.S. musician, on Larry King's show	1980					1	y
Arson and cruelty to animals are 2 of 3 childhood warning signs regarding the potential to be a serial killer. (To no longer objectify living beings by ceasing hunting and fishing takes one l step further away from the murder of humans.)	Douglas, John	profiler of serial killers for the FBI, U.S.			FBI character in Silence of the Lambs was based on John		1
A meat-fed world now appears a chimera. World grain production has grown more slowly than population since 1984, and farmers lack new methods for repeating the gains of the green revolution. Supporting the world's current population of 5.4 billion people on an American-style diet would require two-and-a-half times as much grain as the world's farmers produce for all purposes. A future world of 8 billion to 14 billion people eating the American ration of 220 grams of grain-fed meat a day can be nothing but a flight of fancy.	Durning, Alan B. & Brough, Holly	Worldwatch Institute				1		2
Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.	Edison, Thomas A.	inventor	1847	1931	holder of 1,093 patents		3		y
It is my view that the vegetarian manner of living by it's purely physical effect on the human temperament would most beneficially influence the lot of mankind.	Einstein, Albert	German physicist, Nobel prize 1921. His Theory of Relativity laid the foundation for our understanding of physical reality.	1879	1955	vegetarian .. took a tiny bite of meat once a year on a Jewish holiday to mollify his wife.		1		y
Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances of survival for life on earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.	Einstein, Albert	German physicist, Nobel prize 1921. His Theory of Relativity laid the foundation for our understanding of physical reality.	1879	1955	vegetarian .. took a tiny bite of meat once a year on a Jewish holiday to mollify his wife.			1	y
There can be no question that more hunger can be alleviated with a given quantity of grain by completely eliminating animals [from the food production process]. About 2,000 pounds of concentrates [grains] must be supplied to livestock in order to produce enough meat and other livestock products to support a person for a year, whereas 400 pounds of grain (corn, wheat, rice, soybeans, etc.) eaten directly will support a person for a year. Thus, a given quantity of grain eaten directly will feed 5 times as many people as it will if it is first fed to livestock and then is eaten indirectly by humans in the form of livestock products....	Ensminger, M. E.	President of Consultants-Agriservices						1
As we put into all our schools more humane education, and foster the spirit of justice and kindness toward the "lower" creatures, just as soon shall we reach the roots not only of cruelty but of crime.	Ferguson, Miriam Amanda	former governor of Texas, 1925	1875	1961			1
The impact of countless hooves and mouths over the years has done more to alter the type of vegetation and land forms of the West than all the water projects, strip mines, power plants, freeways, and subdivision developments combined.	Fradkin, Philip	in Audubon, National Audubon Society				1
Nonhumans will continue to be exploited until there is a revolution of the human spirit, and that will not happen without visionaries trying to change the paradigm that has become accustomed to and tolerant of patriarchal violence.	Francione, Gary	law professor					2
Once admit that we have the right to inflict unnecessary suffering and you destroy the very basis of human society.	Galsworthy, John	British author, playwright	1867	1933			1
Kindness to all God's creatures is an absolute rock-bottom necessity if peace and righteousness are to prevail.	Grenfell, Sir Wilfred	British physician and missionary	1865	1940			1
It is strange to hear people talk of Humanitarianism, who are members of societies for the prevention of cruelty to children and animals, and who claim to be God-loving men and women, but who, nevertheless, encourage by their patronage the killing of animals merely to gratify the cravings of appetite.	Ha'nish, Otoman Zar-Adusht		1844	1936			2
I am not basically a conservationist. When the last great whale is slaughtered, as it surely will be, the whales' suffering will be over. This is not the whales' loss, but man's. I am not concerned about the wiping out of a species - this is man's folly - I have only one concern, the suffering which we deliberately inflict upon animals whilst they live.	Hollands, Clive		1929			2
In war we do not eat what we kill, lest it should be considered barbarous.	Jetha, Akbarali				from "Reflections"		1
There can never be peace and happiness in the world so long as we exploit other living creatures for food or otherwise.	Jetha, Akbarali				from "Reflections"		1
Slaughter of animals for food can exist only in a barbaric society.	Jetha, Akbarali				from "Reflections"		2
Our meat-centered diet and the large-scale animal agriculture that supports it, is devastating all the life support systems upon which we depend - the topsoil, the forests, the rivers, the ground water, the air and the oceans. Evolving our diet away from the current animal-based diet toward a plant-based diet is arguably the single most effective action we can take as individuals and as a society to improve our health and to stabilize our endangered eco-system.	Klaper, Michael	author, lecturer, physician, environmentalist	2001			1		2
I grew up in cattle country-that's why I became a vegetarian. Meat stinks, for the animals, the environment, and your health.	Lang, K.D.	singer	1990			2			y
Our food system takes abundant grain, which people can't afford, and shrinks it into meat, which better-off people will pay for.	Lappe, Frances Moore							1	y
As we become increasingly aware of the finite limits to the carrying capacity of the planet, the inefficiency of converting eight or nine kilograms of grain protein into one kilogram of animal protein for human consumption would by itself be sufficient argument against continuation of our present dietary habits. When one adds in the abuse of animals inherent to factory farming methods, the depletion and contamination of aquifers, the intense use of grain crops and grazing areas, and the release of methane and other greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, the case against our meat-eating behavior becomes overwhelming. And that is before we factor in the effects of animal fats - an inescapable component of meat and poultry - on human health.	Lawrence, Robert S.	Associate Dean, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health						1
An individual animal doesn't care if its species is facing extinction - it cares if it is feeling pain.	Lee, Ronnie		1951			2
This tendency [to cruelty] should be watched in them [children], and if they incline to any such cruelty, they should be taught the contrary usage. For the custom of tormenting and killing other animals will, by degrees, harden their hearts even towards men.... And they, who delight in the suffering and destruction of inferior creatures, will not be apt to be very compassionate or benign to those of their own kind. Children should from the beginning be brought up in an abhorrence of killing or tormenting living beings.... And indeed, I think people from their cradles should be tender to all sensible creatures.... All the entertainment and talk of History is of nothing but fighting and killing; and the honour and renown that is bestowed on conquerors, who, for the most part, are but the great butchers of mankind, further mislead youth.	Locke, John	English philosopher, author	1628	1704			1		y
The existence of organized cruelty - that is, cruelty practiced as a matter of social principle or public policy, and presented to the community as a means of a higher goal - is the most obscene and decadent phenomenon of any civilization.	Luce, Clare Booth						2
Cruelty to animals can become violence to humans.	MacGraw, Ali	actress					1		y
The amount of meat lost each year through careless handling and brutality would be enough to feed a million Americans for a year.	McFarlane, John	Director, Council for Livestock Protection						1
Cruelty has cursed the human family for countless ages. It is almost impossible for one to be cruel to animals and kind to humans. If children are permitted to be cruel to their pets and other animals, they easily learn to get the same pleasure from the misery of fellow-humans. Such tendencies can easily lead to crime.	McGrand, Fred A.		1895				1
Since factory farming exerts a violent and unnatural force upon the living organisms of animals and birds in order to increase production and profits; since it involves callous and cruel exploitation of life, with implicit contempt for nature, I must join in the protest being uttered against it. It does not seem that these methods have any really justifiable purpose, except to increase the quantity of production at the expense of quality—if that can be called a justifiable purpose.	Merton, Thomas	Monk and Poet	1915	1968		2
The environment is worth more than consumer goods and the g.n.p. freedom of speech is absolute and inviolate. guns are too dangerous for private ownership. sustainable & non-polluting energy sources make environmental and economic sense. research performed on animals is, by definition, scientifically unsound. cruelty is unacceptable. what you do with your own body is your choice. one individual violently imposing his or her will on another individual is wrong. you can't expect people to worry about the world when they can't feed themselves or their children. the hazards and risks of nuclear power make it unacceptable as an energy source. the use of animals for food is unhealthy, inefficient, & cruel. people need love & affection. tobacco use has killed & harmed more people than all human wars combined.	Moby				Musician		1	2	y
Basically we should stop doing those things that are destructive to the environment, other creatures, and ourselves and figure out new ways of existing.	Moby				Musician		1		y
If you look at the course of western history you'll see that we're slowly granting basic rights to everyone. A long time ago only kings had rights. Then rights were extended to property-owning white men. Then all men. Then women. Then children. Then the mentally retarded. Now we're agonizing over the extension of basic rights to homosexuals and animals. We need to finally accept that all sentient creatures are deserving of basic rights. I define basic rights as this --the ability to pursue life without having someone else's will involuntarily forced upon you. Or, as the framers of the constitution put it, the ability to have "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness". By what criteria can you justify denying basic rights to any living thing? Realize that by whatever criteria you employ someone could deny basic rights to you if they objected to your species, sexual preferences, color, religion, ideology etc. Would you eat your housecat, or force a mentally retarded child to ingest oven cleaner? If not, then why is it ok to eat cows and test products on sentient animals? I believe that to knowingly commit actions that cause or condone suffering is reprehensible in the extreme.I call upon you to be compassionate and treat others as you want to be treated. If you don't want to be beaten, imprisoned, mutilated, killed or tortured then you shouldn't condone such behavior towards anyone, be they human or not.	Moby				Musician		2		y
All education should be directed toward the refinement of the individual's sensibilities in relation not only to one's fellow humans everywhere, but to all things whatsoever. In the societies of the Western world compassionate intelligence is encouraged in girls - in boys it is tabu. The tabu on tenderness in which boys are conditioned, the emphasis on "manliness," "machoism," plays havoc with the male's capacity for compassionate intelligence. Tenderness is considered to be feminine, and that is sufficient to remove it from the repertoire of masculine behavior. Indeed, things have reached such a pass in the Western world that many men seem to have lost all understanding of its meaning. The masculine world would substitute for it the idea of "justice." The difficulty with that is that there is not much compassion in their justice, and justice without compassion is not justice at all.	Montague, Dr. Ashley	Chair of Anthropology, Rutgers Univ.	1905	1999	wrote The Elephant Man		2
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.	More, Saint Sir Thomas	author, attorney, Lord Chancellor to Henry VIII	1478	1535	from "Utopia", 1516		1
Maybe the world would be better if people didn't hate so much and kill animals.	Nicholls, Craig	of the Vines					1
Out of 135 criminals, including robbers and rapists, 118 admitted that when they were children they burned, hanged and stabbed domestic animals.	Ogonyok	Soviet anti-cruelty magazine	1979				1
The present-day mentality, more perhaps than that of people in the past, seems opposed to a God of mercy, and in fact tends to exclude from life and to remove from the human heart the very idea of mercy. The word and the concept of 'mercy' seem to cause uneasiness in man, who, thanks to the enormous development of science and technology, never before known in history, has become master of the earth and has subdued and dominated it. This dominion over the earth, sometimes understood in a one-sided and superficial way, seems to leave no room for mercy....	Paul II, Pope John				from The Mercy of God		3		y
According to the Environmental Protection Agency, factory farming pollutes U.S. waterways more than all industrial sources combined.	PETA		1995			1
So you are the people tearing down the Brazilian rainforest and breeding cattle.	Philip	Prince of England			to McDonalds of Canada	1
His Holiness is pleased at being called upon, as head of the Church, for his support in so noble an undertaking, which has the lofty object of caring for the lives and treatment of animals and which at the same time endeavours to eradicate from the hearts of men barbarous and cruel tendencies.	Pius X, Pope				written by his secretary, Cardinal Merry del Val		3
For to whom is it not manifest that justice is increased through abstinence? For he who abstains from everything living, though he may abstain from such animals as do not contribute to the benefit of society, will be much more careful not to injure those of his own species.	Porphyry	the last of the classical Greek, pagan philosophers	233	309	from "On Abstinence From Animal Food"		1
As long as man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seed of murder and pain cannot reap joy and love.	Pythagoras	Greek mathematician	(569)	(475)			1		y
For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seed of murder and pain cannot reap joy and love.	Pythagoras	Greek mathematician	(569)	(475)			1		y
The transition of world agriculture from food grain to feed grains represents an...evil whose consequences may be far greater and longer lasting than any past examples of violence inflicted by men against thier fellow human beings.	Rifkin, Jeremy	author of Beyond Beef, The Rise and Fall of the Cattle Culture				2	1
The world's environment can no longer handle beef.	Rifkin, Jeremy	author of Beyond Beef, The Rise and Fall of the Cattle Culture				1		2
It seems disingenuous for the intellectual elite of the first world to dwell on the subject of too many babies being born in the second- and third-world nations while virtually ignoring the over-population of cattle and the realities of a food chain that robs the poor of sustenance to feed the rich a steady diet of grain-fed meat.	Rifkin, Jeremy	author of Beyond Beef, The Rise and Fall of the Cattle Culture						1
That the use of animal food disposes man to cruel and ferocious action is a fact to which the experience of ages gives ample testimony . . . The barbarous and unfeeling "sports" (as they are called) of the English - their horse-racing, hunting, shooting, bull and bear baiting, cock-fighting, prize fighting, and the like, all proceed from their immoderate addiction to animal food. Their natural temper is thereby corrupted, and they are in the habitual and hourly commission of crimes against nature, justice, and humanity, from which a feeling and reflective mind, unaccustomed to such a diet, would revolt, but in which they profess to take delight.	Ritson, Joseph	British poet	1761	1830			3
A reduction in beef and other meat consumption is the most potent single act you can take to halt the destruction of our environment and preserve our natural resources. Our choices do matter. What's healthiest for each of us personally is also healthiest for the life support system of our precious, but wounded planet.	Robbins, John	author "Diet for a New America"	1992			1			y
English coarseness is well known. The Gaures, on the contrary, are the gentlest of men. All savages are cruel, and it is not their morals that urge them to be so; this cruelty proceeds from their food. They go to war as to the chase, and treat men as they do bears. Even in England the butchers are not received as legal witnesses any more than surgeons. And great criminals harden themselves to murder by drinking [animal] blood.	Rousseau, Jean-Jacques	French philosopher	1712	1778	"philosophical father" of the American and French revolutions		1
One of the proofs that the taste of flesh is not natural to man is the indifference which children exhibit for that sort of meat, and the preference they all give to vegetable foods, such as milk-porridge, pastry, fruits, etc. It is of the last importance not to de-naturalize them of this primitive taste and not to render them carnivorous, if not for health reasons, at least for the sake of their character. For, however the experience may be explained, it is certain that great eaters of flesh are, in general, more cruel and ferocious than other men. This observation is true of all places and of all times.	Rousseau, Jean-Jacques	French philosopher	1712	1778	"philosophical father" of the American and French revolutions		2
Cows when not bred for passivity so that they will go meekly to slaughter.. revert to their acute intelligence, and can live easily in the wild.	Rudd, Geoffrey	English anthropologist, author			Secretary of International Vegetarian Union in 1965	2
It is not THIS bloodshed, or THAT bloodshed, that must cease; but ALL bloodshed - all wanton infliction of pain or death.	Salt, Henry S.	wrote Animals' Rights in 1892	1851	1939	vegetarian		1		y
We must fight against the spirit of unconscious cruelty with which we treat the animals. Animals suffer as much as we do. True humanity does not allow us to impose such sufferings on them. It is our duty to make the whole world recognize it. Until we extend our circle of compassion to all living things, humanity will not find peace.	Schweitzer, Rev. Dr. Albert	German physician, author, Nobel Peace Prize 1952	1875	1965	from "The Philosophy of Civilization"		1		y
The human spirit is not dead. It lives on in secret.... It has come to believe that compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.	Schweitzer, Rev. Dr. Albert	German physician, author, Nobel Peace Prize 1952	1875	1965	from Nobel Peace Prize address, "The Problem of Peace in the World Today"		2		y
Very little of the great cruelty shown by men can really be attributed to cruel instinct. Most of it comes from thoughtlessness or inherited habit. The roots of cruelty, therefore, are not so much strong as widespread. But the time must come when inhumanity protected by custom and thoughtlessness will succumb before humanity championed by thought. Let us work that this time may come.	Schweitzer, Rev. Dr. Albert	German physician, author, Nobel Peace Prize 1952	1875	1965			2		y
Human beings are the only animals of which I am throughly and cravenly afraid.	Shaw, George Bernard	playwright, Nobel prize 1925	1856	1950	vegetarian		2		y
While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered beasts, how can we expect any ideal conditions on this earth? In Living Graves	Shaw, George Bernard	playwright, Nobel prize 1925	1856	1950	vegetarian		2		y
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.	Singer, Isaac Bashevis	Polish author, Nobel prize, 1978	1904	1991			1		y
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.	Singer, Isaac Bashevis	Polish author, Nobel prize, 1978	1904	1991			1		y
To be a vegetarian is to disagree -- to disagree with the course of things today. Starvation, world hunger, cruelty, waste, wars -- we must make a statement against these things. Vegetarianism is my statement. And I think it's a strong one.	Singer, Isaac Bashevis	Polish author, Nobel prize, 1978	1904	1991			3	1
[T]hose who claim to care about the well-being of human beings and the preservation of our environment should become vegetarians for that reason alone. They would thereby increase the amount of grain available to feed people everywhere, reduce pollution, save water and energy, and cease contributing to the clearing of forests; moreover, since a vegetarian diet is cheaper than one based on meat dishes, they would have more money available to devote to famine relief, population control, or whatever social or political cause they thought most urgent. …[W]hen non-vegetarians say that "human problems come first," I cannot help wondering what exactly it is that they are doing for human beings that compels them to continue to support the wasteful, ruthless exploitation of farm animals.	Singer, Peter	Australian professor, author "Animal Liberation"	1946			1
Vegetarianism is a way of living consciously on the planet.	Smart, Amy					1
We crossed the Embarras River and encamped on a small branch of the same about one mile west. In pitching my tent we found three massasaugas or prairie rattlesnakes, which the brethren were about to kill, but I said, ‘Let them alone—don’t hurt them! How will the serpent ever lose his venom, while the servants of God possess the same disposition and continue to make war upon it? Men must become harmless, before the brute creation; and when men lose their vicious dispositions and cease to destroy the animal race, the lion and the lamb can dwell together, and the sucking child can play with the serpent in safety.	Smith, Joseph	founder of Mormonism	1805	1844			2		y
Socrates: Would this habit of eating animals not require that we slaughter animals that we knew as individuals, and in whose eyes we could gaze and see ourselves reflected, only a few hours before our meal? Glaucon: This habit would require that of us. Socrates: Wouldn't this [knowledge of our role in turning a being into a thing] hinder us in achieving happiness? Glaucon: It could so hinder us in our quest for happiness. Socrates: And, if we pursue this way of living, will we not have need to visit the doctor more often? Glaucon: We would have such need. Socrates: If we pursue our habit of eating animals, and if our neighbor follows a similar path, will we not have need to go to war against our neighbor to secure greater pasturage, because ours will not be enough to sustain us, and our neighbor will have a similar need to wage war on us for the same reason? Glaucon: We would be so compelled. Socrates: Would not these facts prevent us from achieving happiness, and therefore the conditions necessary to the building of a just society, if we pursue a desire to eat animals? Glaucon: Yes, they would so prevent us.	Socrates, quoted by Plato		(470)	(390)	quoted by Plato (c.427 - c.323 BC) in The Republic		1		y
The fur industry butchers animals and pollutes our environment. I could never wear fur.	Tavares, Fernanda					2
As long as there are slaughterhouses, there will be battlefields.	Tolstoy, Leo	Russian author, War and Peace	1828	1910			1		y
There were no slaughterhouses in the Garden of Eden	unknown						1
For hundreds of thousands of years the stew in the pot has brewed hatred and resentment that is difficult to stop. If you wish to know why there are disasters of armies and weapons in the world, listen to the piteous cries from the slaughter house at midnight.	Unknown	ancient Chinese verse	(2000)				2
No nation is truly free until the animal; man's younger brother is free and happy.	Vaswani, T. L.	Indian philosopher	1879	1966	born in Sindh (present day Pakistan)		1
I believe in my heart that faith in Jesus Christ can and will lead us beyond an exclusive concern for the well-being of other human beings to the broader concern for the well-being of the birds in our backyards, the fish in our rivers, and every living creature on the face of the earth.	Wesley, John	Anglican priest, founder of Methodism	1703	1791		3
Until we establish a felt sense of kinship between our own species and those fellow mortals who share with us the sun and shadow of life on this agonized planet, there is no hope for other species, there is no hope for the environment, and there is no hope for ourselves.	Wynne-Tyson, Jon	British author	1924				1