These quotes point to the fact that as long as human beings wage war against our animal cousins, we will not have peace among ourselves or within ourselves. Feel free to use them to help people understand the connection.
As long as people will shed the blood of innocent creatures there can be no peace, no liberty, no harmony between people. Slaughter and justice cannot dwell together.--Isaac Bashevis Singer
As long as there are slaughterhouses, there will be battlefields.--Tolstoy
Until he extends the circle of compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace.
--Albert Schweitzer
Until we have the courage to recognize cruelty for what it is--whether its victim is human or animal--we cannot expect things to be much better in this world... We cannot have peace among men whose hearts delight in killing any living creature. By every act that glorifies or even tolerates such moronic delight in killing we set back the progress of humanity.--Rachel Carson
We are the living graves of murdered beasts, slaughtered to satisfy our appetites. How can we hope in this world to attain the peace we say we are so anxious for?--George Bernard Shaw (Living Graves, published 1951)
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
"To be
free, we must practice freeing others. To feel loved, we must practice loving others. To have true self-respect, we must respect others. The animals and other voiceless beings, the
starving humans and future generations, are pleading with us to see: it's on our plate."—Will Tuttle
"The human cycle of violence will not stop until we stop the underlying violence, the remorseless violence we commit against animals for food. We teach this behavior and this insensitivity”—Will Tuttle
starving humans and future generations, are pleading with us to see: it's on our plate."—Will Tuttle
"The human cycle of violence will not stop until we stop the underlying violence, the remorseless violence we commit against animals for food. We teach this behavior and this insensitivity”—Will Tuttle
“We need never look for universal
peace on this earth until men stop killing animals for food. The lust for blood
has permeated the race thought and the destruction of life will continue to
repeat its psychology, the world round, until men willingly observe the law in
all phases of life, ‘Thou shalt not kill.’”--Charles Fillmore, “The
Vegetarian,” May 1920
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