Michael-selected Quotes
Quotes about animals
“ I do believe that all God’s creatures have the right to live as much as we have. Instead of prescribing the killing of the so-called injurious fellow creatures of ours as a duty, if men of knowledge had devoted their gift to discovering ways of dealing with them otherwise then by killing them, we would be living in a world befitting of our status as men—animals endowed with a reason and the power of choosing between good and evil, right and wrong, violence and non-violence, truth and untruth.”
Mahatma Gandhi, from The Words of Gandhi, selected by Richard Attenborough
Published in 1982 by Newmarket Press, 3 East 18th Street, New York, New York 10017.
“Animal rights are not a gift we give to animals. They are a birthright we have taken from them.”
From:Voices for Animal Liberation by Brittany Michelson
Skyhorse Publishing, 307 West 36th Street, 11th Floor, New York, NY 10018
Henry David Thoreau said “The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.“ And so does the mass of pets and other confined animals.
“If the children are saved from leading a life like mine, Earth may be saved from total chaos and squalor.” Michael J. Riegert of PetEuthanasia.Info; animal-exploiting/persecuting human supremacist in recovery.