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Animal Quote by Jonathan Balcombe

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“Humankind won't find peace as long as we're treating feeling animals as if they were so many blocks of wood.”

Jonathan Balcombe

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The logical conclusion to a compassionate and respectful relationship to sentient animals is that we stop eating them.

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Studies show that people who abuse animals are far more likely to engage in interpersonal violence. Violent crime rates tend to be higher in…

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People don't like change when it comes to changing their own lifestyle habits.

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The more we learn, the more questions arise.

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When I watch animals, I realize I am watching individual with lives that matter, to them. It isn't just another chicken or another mouse.…

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From my earliest memories I was fascinated by animals. I would explore my backyard for insects and gaze at anthills until my elbows became…

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Animals know nothing of themselves, and they also know nothing of the world.

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When grubbing for necessities man is still an animal. He becomes uniquely human when he reaches out for the superfluous and extravagant.

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A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse!

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“What does it mean to be a self-conscious animal? The idea is ludicrous, if it is not monstrous. It means to know that one…

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We must love animals in such a powerful way that we should reject to eat them!

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This brings me back to the image of Kafka standing before a fish in the Berlin aquarium, a fish on which his gaze fell…

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Animal rights without veganism is like human rights with slavery. It makes no sense. None whatsoever.

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We animals are the most complicated things in the known universe.

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We're not very dangerous animals; we don't have a horn like a rhino or quills like a porcupine.

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