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.
"Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our
pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his
megaphone to rouse a deaf world."
"If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our
own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up
imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons."