(humans) “no longer enslave animals for food purposes”
William T Riker, Star Trek, Next Generation
Quote
Enlightened?
“You humans claim to be enlightened, yet you still consume the flesh of animals.”
T’Pol, Enterprise
Needs to blush…
“Man is the only animal that blushes, or needs to.”
~ Mark Twain, American author
Graveyard body…
“I choose not to make a graveyard of my body for
the rotting corpses of dead animals.”
~ George Bernard Shaw
The Snow Leopard
“That the snow leopard is, that it is here, that its frosty eyes watch us from the mountains – that is enough.”
~ Peter Matthiessen, American conservationist/author.
Man and Nature?
“I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.”
– E. B. White, American author
“I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren’t certain we knew better.”
~ George Bird Evans, author.
The Devil is a human…
“”We have enslaved the rest of animal creation and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were to formulate a Religion, they would depict the Devil in human form.”
~ W.R.Inge
I don’t eat my friends…
“Animals are my friends and I don’t eat my friends. A man of my spiritual intensity does not eat corpses.” ~ George Bernard Shaw