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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

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"A man may smile and bid you hail
Yet wish you to the devil;
But when a dog wags his tail,
You know he's on the level."

"Your life may be the only Bible some people read."

"Do not repeat anything you will not sign your name to."

"A hundred years from now, it will not matter the sort of house I lived in, what my bank account was, or the car I drove....but the world may be different because I was important in the life of the animals and the creatures on this earth."

"Hate, jealousy and bitterness are like taking poison and hoping the other guy dies."

“There’s no honorable way to kill, no gentle way to destroy. There is nothing good in war, except its ending.”

“Heart attacks...God's revenge for eating his little animal friends.”

"In some far part of the universe, ten thousand years from this noon, we may all confront creatures more vital than ourselves, more intelligent than ourselves, who will read in our eyes, one hopes, a similar signal. What we want at that moment is recognition. Acceptance. A welcoming into some universal sill. And once in, we would also hope, there is no killing club behind the door."

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