Quote by Jared Diamond

“No animal will accept the justice of being punished for following its instincts. (90)”

— JM Coetzee

In the killing of animals there is cruelty, rage, and the accustoming of oneself to the bad habit of shedding innocent blood.

— Joseph Albo

Man is unique in organizing the mass murder of his own species.

— Aldous Huxley

In however complex a manner this feeling may have originated, as it is one of high importance to all those animals which aid and…

— Charles Darwin

“the medical journal The Lancet explained the process by which the dreadfuls could foster violence. People of a lower evolutionary type, the journal said,…

— Kate Summerscale

“A beautiful antelope panting under the fangs of a tiger, a defenceless ox, groaning beneath the butcher’s axe, is a spectacle, which instantly awakens…

— Christopher Hitchens

“In my lifelong study of the scores of species of ants to be found in the tropical forests of Dal Hon, I am led…

— Steven Erikson

Killing animals and eating meat have been significant components of human evolution that had a synergistic relationship with other key attributes that have made…

— Vaclav Smil

“No doubt as long as man and all other animals are viewed as independent creations, an effectual stop is put to our natural desire…

— Charles Darwin

Whenever conflict arises among living creatures the sense of ownership is the cause.

— Shantideva

“...human beings as a species have never failed to find reasons to regard one another with fear and loathing and thus to offer violence…

— Jonathan Kirsch

“This compassion, or sympathy with the pains of others, ought also to extend to the brute creation, as far as our necessities will admit;…

— Erasmus Darwin