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QUOTATIONS ARCHIVE

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.

Arthur Schopenhauer

(1788–1860) Author and philosopher

"Compassion for animals is intimately connected with goodness of character, and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to animals cannot be a good man."

"All truth goes through three stages. First it is ridiculed. Then it is violently opposed. Finally, it is accepted as self evident."

“Unlike the intellect, it [the Will] does not depend on the perfection of the organism, but is essentially the same in all animals as that which is known to us so intimately. Accordingly, the animal has all the emotions of humans, such as joy, grief, fear, anger, love, hatred, strong desire, envy, and so on. The great difference between human and animal rests solely on the intellect's degrees of perfection.”
– On the Will in Nature, “Physiology and Pathology.”

“I know of no more beautiful prayer than that which the Hindus of old used in closing their public spectacles. It was: ‘May all that have life be delivered from suffering.’ ”

“Compassion is the basis of all morality.”

Snow Goose Photo by Sue Holloway - Creatured Connection
Watercolor painting "Wetland Weeds" by Mary T. Hoffman

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