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“But once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle you are equipped with the basic means of salvation. Once you know…

— Tennessee Williams

“As long as Man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings, he will never know health or peace. For as long…

— Pythagoras

“There comes a time when one has seen such suffering one begins to understand, in this world, even the innocent may be forced to…

— Jessica Skye Davies

“No animal ever torments another for the mere purpose of tormenting, but man does it, and it is this that constitutes the diabolical feature…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“I sometimes think that animals are incapable of the kinds of cruelty that humans willingly inflict on each other.”

— Belinda Jeffrey

“that indifference to the sufferings which they cause which, whatever names else be given it, is the one true, terrible and lasting form of…

— Marcel Proust

“Man, the bravest of animals, and the one most accustomed to suffering, does not repudiate suffering as such; he desires it, he even seeks…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“The thinking man must oppose all cruel customs, no matter how deeply rooted in tradition and surrounded by a halo. When we have a…

— Anonymous

“Humans, I finally decided after a few more minutes of watching him, are paradoxically capable of both unattainable depths of kindness and unimaginable depths…

— Kiley MacLeod

“And the self concern which is our torment, whether we know it or not, must find an antidote when we let our imagination stray…

— Julie Summers

“But how will you bear an absentminded man who, if he happens to see you, will kill you? That is what tries the nerves,…

— G. K. Chesterton

“Still, it is surely true of all animals, and all conscious people, that the pain we inflict on each other is in some ways…

— Liz Stephens