Animal life, somber mystery. All nature protests against the barbarity of man, who misapprehends, who humiliates, who tortures his inferior brethren". -- Jules Michelet.

The recklessness with which we sacrifice our sense of decency to maximize profit in the factory farming process sets a pattern for cruelty to our own kind". -- Jonathan Kozol, schrijver.

"We should begin to feel for the flies and other insects struggling to be free from sticky fly paper. There are humane alternatives". -- Michael W. Fox, Vice President van HSUS.

"To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being". -- Mahatma Gandhi.

"I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being". -- Abraham Lincoln.

"When it comes to having a central nervous system, and the ability to feel pain, hunger, and thirst, a rat is a pig is a dog is a boy". -- Ingrid Newkirk (dierenrechten activiste).

"For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seed of murder and pain cannot reap joy and love". -- Pythagoras.

"It is man's sympathy with all creatures that first makes him truly a man". -- Albert Schweitzer.

"Life is life--whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat or a man. The idea of difference is a human conception for man's own advantage". -- Sri Aurobindo dichter en philosoof.

"The line between human and nonhuman is, like all lines, one that should be drawn in pencil, so that it can be moved to accommodate moral evolution and the realization of moral reality." -- Prof Gary L Francione.

The medical argument for animal testing doesn’t stand up. Even if it did, I don’t think we should kill other species. We think we’re so much better; I’m not sure we are. I tell people, We’ve beaten into submission every animal on the face of the Earth, so we are the clear winners of whatever battle is going on between the species. Couldn’t we be generous? I really do think it’s time to get nice. No need to keep beating up on them. I think we’ve got to show that we’re kind." -- Paul McCartney

Please put the ladybug outside without harming her." (to his butler) -- Winston Churchill

"So you are the people tearing down the Brazilian rainforest and breeding cattle." -- Prince Philip to McDonald's of Canada

"Cruelty to animals can become violence to humans." -- Ali MacGraw

"It is not larger, cleaner cages that justice demands ... but empty cages; not 'traditional' animal agriculture, but a complete end to all commerce in the flesh of dead animals; not 'more humane' hunting and trapping, but the total eradication of these barbarous practices." -- Tom Regan, author of "The Case for Animal Rights,"

"Unseen they suffer, unheard they cry, in agony they linger, in lonliness they die".

"As long as man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower beings, he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seeds of murder and pain cannot reap joy and love" -- Pythagorus

"The value of a society is based upon its kindness to animals." -- Albert Schweitzer

"The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated." -- Gandhi

"If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes." -- Charles A. Lindbergh

"The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for whites or women for men." -- Alice Walker