Richard Gere [August 31, 1949]
[American Actor, Activist]
“As custodians of the planet it is our responsibility to deal with all species with kindness, love and compassion. That these animals suffer through human cruelty is beyond understanding. Please help to stop this madness.”
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George Bernard Shaw [July 26, 1856 – November 2, 1950]
[Playwright, Critic, Political Activist, Nobel Prize For Literature in 1925]
“Animals are my friends and I don’t eat my friends.”
“While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered beasts, how can we expect any ideal conditions on this earth?”
“The time will come when public opinion will no longer tolerate amusements based on the mistreatment and killing of animals. The time will come, but when? When will we reach the point that hunting, the pleasure in killing animals for sport, will be regarded as a mental aberration?”
“Very little of the great cruelty shown by men can really be attributed to cruel instinct. Most of it comes from thoughtlessness or inherited habit. The roots of cruelty, therefore, are not so much strong as widespread. But the time must come wherein humanity protected by custom and thoughtlessness will succumb before humanity championed by thought. Let us work that this time may come. The quiet conscience is an invention of the devil. Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace. It is man’s sympathy with all creatures that first makes him truly a man.”
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Sir James Paul McCartney [June 18, 1942]
[Guitarist of The Beatles, Singer, Song-Writer, Poet, Composer, Multi-Instrumentalist, Entrepeneur, Film Producer, Painter, Animal Right and Peace Activist]
“Many years ago, I was fishing, and as I was reeling in the poor fish, I realized, “I am killing him – all for the passing pleasure it brings me”. And something inside me clicked. I realized as I watched him fight for breath, that his life was as important to him as mine is to me.”
“If anyone wants to save the planet, all they have to do is just stop eating meat. That’s the single most important thing you could do. It’s staggering when you think about it. Vegetarianism takes care of so many things in one shot: ecology, famine, cruelty.”
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Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi [October 2, 1869 - January 30, 1948]
[Pre-eminent Political and Spiritual Leader of India]
“To my mind the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being. … I hold that, the more helpless a creature, the more entitled it is to protection by man from the cruelty of man.”
“The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.”
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