New Quotations in English
I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies, for the hardest victory is over self.
Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.
The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.
Man prays for mercy, but is unwilling to extend it to others.
What do they know-all these scholars, all these philosophers, all the leaders of the world - about such as you? They have convinced themselves that man, the worst transgressor of all the species, is the crown of creation. All other creatures were created merely to provide him with food, pelts, to be tormented, exterminated.
One cannot step twice in the same river.
Entities should not be multiplied unnecessarily.
To be is to be perceived.
If a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound?
We live in the best of all possible worlds.
Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.
I'd like everybody to be a vegetarian... In 100 or 200 years time, we may look back on the way we treated animals today as something like we today look back on the way our forefathers treated slaves.
Life is as dear to a mute creature as it is to a man. Just as one wants happiness and fears pain, just as one wants to live and not to die, so do other creatures.
A sharp distinction between humans and “animals” is essential if we are to bend them to our will, make them work for us, wear them, eat them–without any disquieting tinges of guilt or regret. It is unseemly of us, who often behave so unfeeling toward other animals, to contend that only humans can suffer. The behavior of other animals renders such pretensions specious. They are just too much like us.
Man, do not pride yourself on superiority to animals.
There is no fundamental difference between man and the higher animals in their mental faculties . . . The lower animals, like man, manifestly feel pleasure and pain, happiness, and misery.
A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite. And to act so is immoral.
Thou should eat to live, not live to eat.
The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.
A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help.
