Greater Minds Say....

I thought it about time that I shared some of the amazing and inspiring quotes regarding animals that keep me going.
Before I do though, here's an amusing aside: Reading through some short stories written by Yr 7's the other day, I came across a spelling error that made me laugh out loud;

'Homosidle maniac'.

Beware of sneaky Gay men exhibiting maniacal behaviour....(chortle)

'The fate of animals is of greater importance to me than the fear of appearing ridiculous; it is indissolubly connected with the fate of men' [Emil Zola 1840-1902]

'The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them. That's the essence of inhumanity.' [George Bernard Shaw 1851-1939]

'Whenever people say 'We mustn't be sentimetal', you can take it they are about to do something cruel. And if they add 'We must be realistic', they mean they are going to make money out of it' [Brigid Brophy 1929-1995]

'One day the absurdity of the almost universal human belief in the slavery of other animals will be palpable. We shall then have discovered our souls and become worthy of sharing this planet with them. I have a dream...[Martin Luther King].

'If Americans were to reduce their meat consumption by only 10% for one year, it would free at least 12 million tons of grain for human consumption -or enough to feed 60 million people...Indeed if Americans were to stop eating grain-fed beef altogether the grain thus released woud be enough to feed all the 600 million people in India' [from 'Animal Liberation'. Peter Singer 1983]

'If man's aspirations towards right living are serious...he will first abstain from animal food because...its use is simply immoral, as it requires the performance of an act which is contrary to moral feeling -killing' [Leo Tolstoy]

'I for my part, wonder of what sort of feeling, mind or reason that man was possessed who was first to pollute his mouth with gore, and allow his lips to touch the flesh of a murdered being; who spread his table with the mangled form of dead bodies, and claimed as daily foo and dainty dishes what bt now were beings endowed with movement, with perception and with voice' [Plutarch].

'To undertake to lay down universally valid distinctions of value between different kinds of life will end in judging them by the greater or lesser distance at which they stand from us human beings -as we ourselves judge. But that is a purely sunjective criterion. Who amongst us knows what significance any other kind of life has in itself and as part of the universe?' [Albert Schweitzer]

Of course, there are dozens more, but they're my favourites. Happy reading!

....Homosidle....heh heh....