My favourite quotes.

*Ask the experimenters why they experiment on animals, and the answer is:  "Because the animals are like us."  Ask the experimenters why it is morally okay to experiment on animals, and the answer is:  "Because the animals are not like us."  Animal experimentation rests on a logical contradiction. 

*God loved the birds and invented trees.  Man loved the birds and invented cages.

*We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form. 


*The question is not, "Can they reason?" nor, "Can they talk?" but rather, "Can they suffer?"

*Man is the only creature that consumes without producing.  He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits.  Yet he is lord of all the animals.

*Life is life - whether in a cat, or dog or man.  There is no difference there between a cat or a man.  The idea of difference is a human conception for man's own advantage.

*The woods were made for the hunters of dreams,
The brooks for the fishers of song;
To the hunters who hunt for the gunless game
The streams and the woods belong.

*God made all the creatures and gave them our love and our fear,
To give sign, we and they are His children, one family here.

*As long as man eats animals how can cruelty to animals be removed.

*Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.

*Man is a dog's idea of what God should be.

*When a dog barks at the moon, then it is religion; but when he barks at strangers, it is patriotism! 

*Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails.

*God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest.