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.
"Cruelty to dumb [unspeaking] animals is one of the distinguishing vices
of the low and base minded. Wherever it is found, it is a certain mark
of ignorance and meanness; a mark which all the external advantages of
wealth, splendour and nobility cannot obliterate. It is consistent
neither with learning nor true civility."