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“You are diseased in understanding and religion.
Come to me, that you may hear something of sound truth.
Do not unjustly eat fish the water has given up,
And do not desire as food the flesh of slaughtered animals,
Or the white milk of mothers who intended its pure draught
for their young, not noble ladies.
And do not grieve the unsuspecting birds by taking eggs;
for injustice is the worst of crimes.
And spare the honey which the bees get industriously
from the flowers of fragrant plants;
For they did not store it that it might belong to others,
Nor did they gather it for bounty and gifts.
I washed my hands of all this; and wish that I
Perceived my way before my hair went gray!”
― Abū al-ʿAlāʾ al-Maʿarrī

“The excuse given by some intellectuals that the killing of animals will help in balancing the ecological balance is dim-witted because of the other and non-violent alternatives available. Yet again, if the population were to be manipulated by slaughtering, remember that humans are the first species needed to be controlled. Everyone is well-versed with the problems of uncontrolled population growth, which is indeed a reason for many great problems of a country including unemployment and inflation. Single hydrogen or atom bombing and a majority of a particular place's population will be wiped from the face of the Earth. But it's just psychopathic and inhuman and the same is the case with the animals too.”
― Shivanshu K. Srivastava

“The excuse given by some intellectuals that the killing of animals will help in balancing the ecological balance is dim-witted because of the other and non-violent alternatives available. Yet again, if the population were to be manipulated by slaughtering, remember that humans are the first species needed to be controlled.”
― Shivanshu K. Srivastava

“We need another and a wiser and perhaps a more mystical concept of animals. Remote from universal nature and living by complicated artifice, man in civilization surveys the creature through the glass of his knowledge and sees thereby a feather magnified and the whole image in distortion. We patronize them for their incompleteness, for their tragic fate for having taken form so far below ourselves. And therein do we err. For the animal shall not be measured by man. In a world older and more complete than ours, they move finished and complete, gifted with the extension of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear. They are not brethren, they are not underlings: they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendour and travail of the earth."
-Henry Beston”
― Marc Bekoff, The Animals' Agenda: Freedom, Compassion, and Coexistence in the Human Age

“As Johnson suggests, "The strange and beautiful truth about the adjacent possible is that its boundaries grow as you explore them. Each new combination opens up the possibility of other new combinations.”
― Marc Bekoff, The Animals' Agenda: Freedom, Compassion, and Coexistence in the Human Age

“I used to read ancient books at the farm, before I escaped, showing how the planet was before it all began. How beautiful and magical it was. Beasts of wild and weird shapes walked, swam, crawled, and flew, and plants of the most magnificent colours grew like jewels on a marvellous crown. It should have been worshipped. Instead, it was tarnished. Abused.”
― M.C. Ronen, It Was In Our Hands

“This new hunting ideology would have opened the floodgates to all kinds of aggression. What else or who else could we take over and bend to our will? Plants, trees, entire forests, mountains, lakes, rivers, even the animals in the sea. No aggression was off limits any more. We were no longer Homo Sapiens. We became Homo Bully.
This new mentality would also ensure future technology was used for aggression rather than peace.”
― Danny Nichols, Cops Don't Kill K9 Cops, Do They?: The Deadly Bad Habit Cops Don't Want You to Read About

“So where did we go wrong? When did we become the aggressors, the bullies? When we think about it deeply, it’s easy to conclude it must have been when some humans decided to do planned hunting. Up to that time we still would have been living naturally, as the herbivores we are. When we made the conscious, sadistic, ideological choice to not leave others alone to live their lives and attack them for no reason, we became an unnatural herbivorous “predator��. We didn’t need to kill or eat other animals. We wanted to.”
― Danny Nichols , Cops Don't Kill K9 Cops, Do They?: The Deadly Bad Habit Cops Don't Want You to Read About

“Other species don’t weaponize their survival advantage abilities. They survive and live. They don’t wage war. If earthworms wanted to, they could tunnel under everything above ground and pretty much sink everything. They could be lords of the land. I guess earthworms are just smarter than us…as are all the other species on Earth because they live and let live. We humans, however, used our cognitive abilities to develop nuclear weapons, slaughterhouses, chemical plants, mono cropping, and governments (military, wars). Not so smart.”
― Danny Nichols , Cops Don't Kill K9 Cops, Do They?: The Deadly Bad Habit Cops Don't Want You to Read About

“As our bullying culture expanded and our human population grew out of control, we designed more powerful and intricate systems to control ourselves, just as we had developed enclosures and slaughterhouses for the use and control of other animals we were breeding. We developed the ideas of Kings & Queens, governments, armies, policing (and police dogs), different classes of humans, and dungeons & prisons for those who might challenge the bullies at the top or the entire system. We were fully domesticated and fully controlled. We were fully civilized. We had become both the bullies and the bullied.”
― Danny Nichols , Cops Don't Kill K9 Cops, Do They?: The Deadly Bad Habit Cops Don't Want You to Read About

“The first step in solving a problem is awareness. The second step is getting to the root of the problem, not just treating the symptoms. In our modern society we are obsessed with treating symptoms of bullying that have been going on for thousands of years. Will we ever go back? Will we ever realize that to live and let live doesn't just apply to humans? Will we ever stop bullying nature, other species, and ourselves? I doubt it, but now that you're aware of what we've done, what we are doing, and what our true nature is, what will you do?; because the third step in solving a problem is action.”
― Danny Nichols , Cops Don't Kill K9 Cops, Do They?: The Deadly Bad Habit Cops Don't Want You to Read About

“Almost everyone will proclaim they are against bullying. No one likes a bully, right? At the same time, most of those same people will state the slogan of the day, "I respect the police.", or, "I respect the police, but...". To that I ask, "What is it you respect about them?" Do you respect that they'd shoot your dog or child in a heartbeat? Do you respect them leaving thousands of dogs in hot cars to die? Do you respect them shooting hundreds of thousands of dogs? (10,000 a year for 20 years would be hundreds of thousands!). Do you respect that there are cops in prison for murder, rape, and child molestation who are still collecting their pensions? I could probably make this list 100 pages long if I wanted to, but I hope you get the point. The point is that when we say we respect bullies and bullying, we are part of the problem, not the solution.”
― Danny Nichols , Cops Don't Kill K9 Cops, Do They?: The Deadly Bad Habit Cops Don't Want You to Read About

“To be vegan, you need to be rich. Rich in compassion, empathy, and a sense of justice.”
― Daniel Gumiero

“Best substitute for meat, cheese, eggs, and derivatives: compassion.”
― Daniel Gumiero

“Veganism has nothing to do with diet. It has to do with the disregarded rights of animals.”
― Daniel Gumiero

“If fighting for animal rights means being annoying, I'd rather be far away from nice people.”
― Daniel Gumiero

“Environmentalists who eat meat are in the same category as ranchers who advocate for animals.”
― Daniel Gumiero

“If your 'right' to consume meat, milk, eggs, and derivatives causes victims, it's not a right.”
― Daniel Gumiero

“If you don't see a difference between a chopped vegetable and the dismembered body of an animal, I have bad news for you.”
― Daniel Gumiero

“Meat is not oxygen for you to say you can't live without it. Leave the animals in peace.”
― Daniel Gumiero

“Be kind to all living beings. Treat every animal with compassion and respect. It is essential for a better world.”
― Angie karan

“La verità è che alla fine ciò che ci lega più stretti alla carne è la piccola galassia dei nostri egoismi.

The truth in the end is that what connects us closely to meat is the little galaxy of our selfishness.”
― Lorenzo Biagiarelli, Ho mangiato troppa carne: Perché mangiamo animali e cosa succederà se non smettiamo di farlo

“It is strange that persons who would shudder at the idea of even seeing a human being flogged, think nothing of witnessing or even inflicting themselves the like punishment on dumb animals. They seem to think it of no importance, because they are used to it; and truly do they suffer every day and continually, what we should think a severe trial for half an hour.”
― Lewis Gompertz, Moral Inquiries on the Situation of Man and of Brutes

“Y: I UNDERSTAND that you object to the use of milk; what harm can there be in that?
Z: It was evidently provided for the calf, and not for man.
Y: When the calf is taken away from its mother, it is then a kindness to relieve her of her milk.
Z: But the calf should not be taken away.”
― Lewis Gompertz, Moral Inquiries on the Situation of Man and of Brutes

“Consider their treatment. Examine the whips and the spurs with which they are continually chastised while they are at work; and just try them on your own back and limbs, and on parts that have been bruised, sprained, and lacerated by previous ill-usage: feel their fluted bits in your own mouth, or only their tight girding round your body; in this plight, then exert your strength proportionably to what they do, and being besides frequently half starved, you may then reason about the state they are in.”
― Lewis Gompertz

“The dreadful situation of the brute creation, particularly of those which have been domesticated, claims our strictest attention. Let every mind capable of reflection, direct it for a moment to that of the horse and the ass, by whose exertions we (in the present state of things) derive so much advantage; and let their cases be examined by a judgement unbiassed by habit. We are indeed so accustomed to see their excruciating sufferings, that they fail of exciting the attention even of the benevolent, who concur in the idea that a horse was created to be whipped on its almost bare skin, simply to compel it to perform the labour that the purpose or caprice of his master may require; and in doing which so many persons take delight, to the utmost of what the nature of the animal can support.”
― Lewis Gompertz, Moral Inquiries on the Situation of Man and of Brutes

“It needs but little power of rhetoric to prove, that it is highly culpable in man to torture the brute creation for amusement: but strange it would seem this self-evident principle is not only openly violated by men, whose rank in life has denied them the benefit of good education or leisure for reflection, but also by those with whom neither expense nor trouble has been spared towards the formation of their intellectual powers, even in their most abstracted recesses; and who in other respects delight in the application of their abilities towards every thing that is good and meritorious.”
― Lewis Gompertz, Moral Inquiries on the Situation of Man and of Brutes

“Y: WHAT are your opinions concerning the propriety of man's compelling horses, and other beasts of burden, to perform his labour?
Z: That at least in the present state of society, it is unjust. And, considering the unnecessary abuse they suffer from being in the power of man, I think it wrong to use them, and to encourage their being placed in his power.
Y: Still it perplexes me to conceive that it can be wrong to use them with discretion: they appear to enjoy their work as well as their masters.
Z: It does not, I understand, perplex you to conceive that it can be wrong to compel slaves to work: and I am at a loss how you can disapprove of the one, and countenance the other, which appears to me to be so similar. Slaves would also at times prefer working to being kept confined.”
― Lewis Gompertz, Moral Inquiries on the Situation of Man and of Brutes

“Y: How can man do without the aid of horses?
Z: That is his business to find out.
Y: Do you not think that mankind would be very miserable without their assistance?
Z: Not much more so than with it: in some cases less.”
― Lewis Gompertz, Moral Inquiries on the Situation of Man and of Brutes

“«Un mesías debe arder en la misma llama con la que pretende iluminar a su ejército».”
― Ignacio Samper, Descarnado