This Quotations Archive contains words from famous and some not
so famous people who have expressed a sense of love, compassion, and respect for
all of God's creation: for people, for animals, and for the environment.
They speak of our teaching methods and philosophy. They speak of a
lifestyle of non-violence. They seek to eliminate cruelty and
suffering. They seek to wake us up. They seek to give us hope.
“Kindness and compassion towards all living things is a mark of a
civilized society. Conversely, cruelty, whether it is directed against
human beings or against animals, is not the exclusive province of any
one culture or community of people … Only when we have become nonviolent
towards all life will we have learned to live well ourselves.”