... adieu and some reflections :
Animals give me more
pleasure through the viewfinder of a camera than they ever did in the
crosshairs of a gunsight. And after I've finished "shooting,"
my unharmed victims are still around for others to enjoy. I have developed
a deep respect for animals. I consider them fellow living creatures with
certain rights that should not be violated any more than those of humans.
~Jimmy Stewart
It is inexcusable for scientists to
torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and
politicians. ~Henrik Ibsen
Non-violence leads
to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop
harming all other living beings, we are still savages. ~Thomas A. Edison
Heaven is by favor;
if it were by merit your dog would go in and you would stay out. Of all
the creatures ever made [man] is the most detestable. Of the entire
brood, he is the only one... that possesses malice. He is the only
creature that inflicts pain for sport, knowing it to be pain. ~Mark Twain
The indifference,
callousness and contempt that so many people exhibit toward animals is evil
first because it results in great suffering in animals, and second because it
results in an incalculably great impoverishment of the human spirit. All
education should be directed toward the refinement of the individual's
sensibilities in relation not only to one's fellow humans everywhere, but to
all things whatsoever. ~Ashley
Montague
