Food for Thought

I do not care for a man’s religion whose dog or cat are not the better for it...I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of the whole human being.

– Abe Lincoln

Ever occur to you why some of us can be this much concerned with animal suffering? Because government is not. Why not? Animals don’t vote.

- Paul Harvey

Heaven is by favor. If it were by merit, your dog would stay in and you would not.

-Mark Twain

Not to hurt our humble brethren is our first duty to them, but to stop there is not enough. We have a higher mission - to be of service to them wherever they require it.

- St. Francis of Assisi

As long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seeds of murder and pain cannot reap joy and love.

– Pythagoras

Truly man is the king of beasts, for his brutality exceeds theirs.

- Leonardo da Vinci

There is only one smartest dog in the world, and every boy has it.

- Anonymous

It ill becomes us to invoke in our daily prayers the blessings of God the compassionate, if we in turn will not practice elementary compassion towards our fellow creatures.

- Gandhi

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 Edison

Love animals. God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled. Do not trouble their joy, do not harass them, do not deprive them of their happiness, do not work against God’s intent. Man, do not pride yourself on your superiority to animals. They are without sin, and you, with your greatness, defile the earth by your appearance on it and leave traces of your foulness after you.

– Dostoevsky

I never give them hell; I just tell them the truth and they think it’s hell.

– Harry Truman

The one best place to bury a good dog is in the heart of her master.

-Anonymous

For fidelity, devotion and love, many a two-legged animal is below the dog and the horse. Happy would it be for thousands of people if they could stand at last before the Judgment Seat and say, ‘I have loved as truly and I have lived as decently as my dog.’ Yet we call them ‘only brutes.’

Henry Ward Beecher

He prayeth well who loveth well both man and bird and beast.

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Oh shame on the mothers of mortals

who have not stooped to teach

of sorrow that lies in dear, dumb eyes,

the sorrow that has no speech.

I am the voice of the voiceless;

through me the dumb shall speak.

Till the deaf world’s ear be made to hear

the wrongs of the wordless weak.

– Ella Wheeler Wilcox, (Kinship)