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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.

Weeds by Mary T. Hoffman

Richard Wagner
German composer, poet, essayist
(1813-1883)

“Plant life instead of animal food is the keystone of regeneration. Jesus used bread instead of flesh and wine in place of blood at the Lord's Supper.”

“If experiments on animals were abandoned on grounds of compassion, mankind would have made a fundamental advance.”

“Human dignity begins to assert itself only at the point where man is distinguishable from the beast by pity for it.”
~ The Regeneration of Mankind

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