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Post by KNOWTHIS on Jul 16, 2008 9:14:38 GMT -5
The same Fox analyst who calls himself the capitalist pig and said that helping others is un-American also claimed in the crudest of terms that animals can be abused without legal protection. Check out the appalling video at the link below where he sadistically claims the right to be able to smash his own dog's head in if he wanted to as he hugs and kisses it. www.crooksandliars.com/2008/07/14/fannie-and-freddie-get-the-government-bail-out/Can we not begin to see who it really is that has no regard for the value of life in this world? Do you not think that if a petition were sent out to reenact a eugenics program that this guy would be the first signatory on the list? These people and their beliefs pose the gravest of dangers to society and they don’t even keep it a secret. See the swine's web-page here. www.capitalistpig.com/ |
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Post by Swamp Gas on Jul 16, 2008 17:08:30 GMT -5
“Let thy food be thy medicine”
Hippocrates 460-377 BC
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“The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them. That is the essence of imhumanity.”
"A dinner! How horrible! I am to be made the pretext for killing all those wretched animals and birds, and fish! Thank you for nothing. Now if it were to be a fast instead of a feast; say a solemn three days' abstention from corpses in my honour, I could at least pretend to believe that it was disinterested. Blood sacrifices are not in my line."
- Letter 30 December 1929
On being asked why he was a vegetarian
Oh, come! That boot is on the other leg. Why should you call me to account for eating decently? If I battened on the scorched corpses of animals, you might well ask me why I did that.
- The Vegetarian, 15 January 1898
"While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered beasts, how can we expect any ideal conditions on this earth?"
George Bernard Shaw 1856-1950
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"How are we to build a new humanity? Only by leading men toward a true, inalienable ethic of our own... Reverence for life comprises the whole ethic of love in its deepest and highest sense. It is the source of constant renewal for the individual and for mankind. "
"Until he extends his circle of compassion to all living things, man himself will not find peace. "
"We must never permit the voice of humanity within us to be alienated. It is man's sympathy with all creatures that first makes him truly a man. "
Albert Schweitzer 1875 - 1965
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"My opinion is well known. I do not regard flesh food as necessary for us at any stage and under any clime in which it is possible for human beings ordinarily to live. I hold flesh-food to be unsuited to our species.
"It ill becomes us to invoke in our daily prayers the blessings of God, the compassionate if we in turn will not practice elementary compassion towards our fellow creatures. "
"The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.
Mahatma Ghandhi 1869 -1948
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"Animals are God's creatures, not human property, nor utilities, nor resources, nor commodities, but precious beings in God's sight."
Rev. Dr Andrew Linzey 1952 -
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"The question is not, Can they reason?
Nor Can they talk?
But, Can they suffer?"
Jeremy Bentham
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I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and 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.
- from da Vinci's 'Notes'
Truly man is the king of beasts, for his brutality exceeds theirs. We live by the death of others: We are burial places!
- Merijkowsky, Romance of Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo DaVinci 1452 -1519
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It is my view that the vegetarian manner of living by its purely physical effect on the human temperament would most beneficially influence the lot of mankind.
- Letter to 'Vegetarian Watch-Tower', 27 December 1930
Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.
Albert Einstein 1879-1955 Physicist, Nobel Prize winner 1921
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A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite. And to act so is immoral.
- On Civil Disobedience
What I think about vivisection is that if people admit that they have the right to take or endanger the life of living beings for the benefit of many, there will be no limit for their cruelty.
- letter to Mrs C.P.Farrell, July 1909
If a man aspires towards a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from injury to animals.
- The First Step
Pity is always the same feeling, it doesn't matter, whether you feel it for a human being or a fly.
- unkown origin
Leo Tolstoy 1828-1910
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If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who deal likewise with their fellow men. Not to hurt our humble brethren is our first duty to them, but to stop there is not enough. We have a higher mission - to be of service to them wherever they require it.
- Quoted in the Life by St.Bonaventura
St.Francis of Assisi 1181-1226
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Alas, what wickedness to swallow flesh into our own flesh, to fatten our greedy bodies by cramming in other bodies, to have one living creature fed by the death of another! In the midst of such wealth as earth, the best of mothers, provides, nothing forsooth satisfies you, but to behave like the Cyclopes, inflicting sorry wounds with cruel teeth! You cannot appease the hungry cravings of your wicked, gluttonous stomachs except by destroying some other life.
- Depicted in : The Metamorphoses, translated by Mary M.Innes
As long as man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living 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 seed of murder and pain cannot reap joy and love.
Pythagoras ?580-?500 BC
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The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man.
Charles Darwin 1809-1882
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