The Deeper Minds Of All Ages Have Had Pity For Animals
Friedrich Nietzsche
Below are just a few quotes from those who supported animals rights beginning with the ancient world to the present day.
“We declare, then, that it is absurd for them to say that the practise of flesh-eating is based on nature . For that man is not naturally carnivorous is, in the first place, obvious from the structure of his body. A mans frame is in no way similar to those creatures who were made for flesh-eating; he has no hooked beak or sharp nails or jagged teeth, no strong stomach or warmth of vital fluids able to digest and assimilate a heavy diet of flesh.”
Plutarch
Read more about Plutarch:
http://think-differently-about-sheep.com/Animal_Rights_A_History_Plutarch.htm
“The greatest progress of Righteousness among men comes from the exhortation in favour of non-injury to life and abstention from killing living beings.”
King Ashoka
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http://think-differently-about-sheep.com/Animal_Rights_A_History_King%20Asoka.htm
The question is not, Can they reason? nor, Can they talk? but, Can they suffer? Why should the law refuse its protection to any sensitive being? The time will come when humanity will extend its mantle over everything which breathes…”
Jeremy Bentham
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http://think-differently-about-sheep.com/Animal_rights_a_History_Jeremy_Bentham.htm
“An infallible characteristic of meanness is cruelty. Men who have practised tortures on animals without pity, relating them without shame, how can they still hold their heads among human beings?”
Samuel Johnson
Read more about Samuel Johnson:
http://think-differently-about-sheep.com/Animal_Rights_a_History_Samuel%20Johnson.htm
On a natural system of diet, old age would be our last and our only malady; the term of our existence would be protracted; we should enjoy life, and no longer preclude others from the enjoyment of it.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Read more about Percy Bysshe Shelley
http://think-differently-about-sheep.com/Animal%20Rights%20A%20History%20Percy%20Bysshe%20Shelly.htm
You can read a more thorough history of animal rights:
http://think-differently-about-sheep.com/Animal_Rights_A_History.htm
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