Age Quote by Henry David Thoreau

“As long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seeds of murder and pain cannot reap the…

— Pythagoras

“All breathing, existing, living, sentient creatures should not be slain, nor treated with violence, nor abused, nor tormented, nor driven away.”

— Mahavira

“There will come a time when men look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

“It is impossible to reconcile the principles of humane treatment with the inherently inhumane act of sending animals to slaughter, irrespective of how “good”…

— Hope Bohanec

“As the flesh gets in the way of our ideals, we regulate ourselves unto enslavement and inhumanity. The human spirit then dies and the…

— Earl Warhus

“[..] it has remained for man alone among all creatures to kill senselessly and wantonly for the mere pleasure of inflicting suffering and death.”

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

“When one creature is murdered, another is immediately deprived of life in a slow torturing manner; then the executioners, their hands yet reeking with…

— Mary Shelley

“He was a very humane killer too, for he would dispatch a beast with one blow of it's talk so that it didn't know…

— C.S. Lewis

“Until we have the courage to recognize cruelty for what it is... we cannot expect things to be much better in this world... We…

— Rachel Carson

“Human life, at its best, is fantastic. I’m asking you to create something even greater. Life that is truly humane.”

— Nick Bostrom

“The time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look on the murder of…

— Dimitri Merejkowski

“One man may not kill. If he kills a fellow-creature, he is a murderer. If two, ten, a hundred men do so, they, too,…

— Leo Tolstoy