Ancestor Quote by Swami Vivekananda

Cruelty...prefers abstraction. Some have tried to resolved this gap by hunting or butchering an animal themselves, as if those experiences might somehow legitimize the…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

It is said about Lord Buddha sadaya-hrdaya darsita-pasu-ghatam. He saw the whole human race going to hell by this animal killing. So he appeared…

— A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

I don't believe there is any justifiable reason for killing any animal unless perhaps if it's killing you! That would be negotiable.

— Chrissie Hynde

“Mahabharata states: “What we eat in this life, eats us in the life after death.” We must not forget the chain of karma: Compassion…

— Gabriel Cousens

My culture, Euro-American culture, did so many horrible things to the animal and treated it with such disrespect and such wanton greed. That has…

— Steven Rinella

The way that we live with potentially dangerous animals is not to kill them, but to understand them and to coexist with them.

— Jeremy Wade

In most of the world, it is accepted that if animals are to be killed for food, they should be killed without suffering.

— Peter Singer

“We generally accept that it's natural for carnivorous wild animals to kill other animals in order to live. But people don't often think (or…

— Marc Bekoff

Thousands of animals (now billions) are butchered every day without a shadow of remorse. It cries vengeance upon all the human race.

— Romain Rolland

If cows, pigs, chickens and turkeys go into slaughterhouses alive and come out chopped up into hundreds of pieces, how could anyone claim that…

— Gary Yourofsky

Killing animals for sport, for pleasure, for adventure, and for hides and furs is a phenomena which is at once disgusting and distressing. There…

— Dalai Lama

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

— Joseph Albo