Immanuel Kant (1724-1804), German philosopher: “If (man) is not to stifle his human feelings, he must practice kindness towards animals, for he who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.” “The cruelty toward animals is in contrast to the duty of man toward himself.” Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519), Italian artist and universal genius: “Man is truly the king of all animals, because his cruelty surpasses theirs. We live from the death of others. We are walking graves!” “You have described man as the king of the animals – but I would say: king of the predators, among whom you are the greatest; for have you not killed them so that they serve to satisfy your palate, making you the grave of all animals? Does not nature produce enough vegetables with which you can sate yourself?” “The time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men.” “The time will come when we will condemn the eating of animals just as today we condemn the eating of our own kind, the consuming of humans.” “Already in my youngest years I swore off eating meat, and the time will come when like me the people will see the murderers of animals with the same eyes as they now see the murderers of humans.” Romain Rolland (1866-1944), French author and Nobel Prize winner: “To a man whose mind is free there is something even more intolerable in the sufferings of animals than in the sufferings of man. For with the latter it is at least admitted that suffering is evil and that the man who causes it is a criminal. But thousands of animals are uselessly butchered every day without a shadow of remorse. If any man were to refer to it, he would be thought ridiculous. And that is the unpardonable crime!” Karlheinz Deschner (1924- ), Dr. of Philosophy, historian, literary specialist, philosopher and repeated award-winning author: “The menu – the bloodiest page that we write.” “Man is a habitual criminal toward the animals.” “Moral misgivings toward roast veal? Not from the side of the educator. Not from the side of jurisprudence. Not from the side of moral theology. Not from thousands of other sides. Perhaps from the side of the calf?” “A society that copes with slaughterhouses and battlefields is itself ripe for slaughter.” “The one who eats animals is beneath the animals.” “Meat does not make the meal worse, but the eater.” “Animal friends: First petting the little lamb, then roast lamb; first cursing the angler, then poached trout. You don’t like hunters, then you eat game!” “Doesn’t mankind, which kills trillions of animals, deserve just what it does to the animals?” “Man: a down and out shoddy animal.” George Sand (1804-1876), French author: “It will be a great progress in the development of our race [the human race] when we become fruit-eaters and the meat-eaters disappear from the face of the Earth. Everything will be possible on our planet from the moment we overcome the bloody meals of meat and overcome war.” Charles Darwin (1809-1882), British natural scientist and founder of Darwinism: “Like humans, the animals feel joy and pain, happiness and unhappiness.” Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), American author and politician: “You have just dined; and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity.” Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948), leader of the Indian independence movement, Nobel Prize winner, 1913: “I feel most deeply that spiritual growth compels us in a certain phase to stop slaughtering our fellow creatures for the satisfaction of our physical wants.” “I believe that spiritual progress demands from us at a certain point that we stop killing our fellow living beings to satisfy our physical cravings.” “To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being. And I would never want to take the life of a lamb for the sake of the human body. The more helpless a living being is, the greater is its claim to human protection from human cruelty.” “The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.” “The Earth has enough for the needs of every single person, but not for his greed.” Sigmund Freud (1856-1939), Austrian nerve doctor, founder of psychoanalysis: “I prefer the society of animals to that of humans. Certainly, a wild animal is terrible. But meanness is the prerogative of a civilized person.” Rue McClanahan (1936- ), American actress: “Compassion is the foundation of everything positive, everything good. If you carry the power of compassion to the marketplace and the dinner table, you can make your life really count.” Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859), founder of scientific geography: “Cruelty to animals can exist neither with true education nor true learning. It is one of the most typical vices of a base and ignoble people. All peoples today are more or less barbarians toward animals. It is untrue and grotesque when they emphasize their supposed high culture at every opportunity, thereby day after day committing or indifferently allowing the most terrible cruelties to millions of defenseless creatures. Can we wonder that these so-called cultured peoples are heading toward a dreadful path of decline more and more? ” “The same stretch of land, which as a meadow, that is, cow fodder, feeds ten people with the flesh of animals fattened on it second hand, can, when planted with millet, peas, lentils and barley, maintain and feed one hundred people.” Sven Hedin (1865-1952), Swedish Asian explorer: “I have never been able to bring myself to extinguish a light of life; I lack the power to ignite it anew.” Theodore Heuss (1884-1963), First President of the Republic of Germany: “The sooner our youth learn on their own to view every brutality against animals as reprehensible, the more they will take care that torment does not develop from play and contact with animals, and the clearer their ability will be later to distinguish between right and wrong in the world of the prominent.” Laotse (ca. 3-4 centuries before Christ), Chinese philosopher: “Be good to people, to plants and to animals! Chase neither man nor animal, nor cause them suffering.”
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