Thursday, March 22, 2007

Some beautiful quotes

* "To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being." - Mahatma Gandhi.

* "The time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look on the murder of men." - Leonardo Da Vinci.

* "If a group of beings from another planet were to land on Earth -- beings who considered themselves as superior to you as you feel yourself to be to other animals -- would you concede them the rights over you that you assume over other animals?" - George Bernard Shaw.

* "What is it that should trace the insuperable line? ...The question is not, Can they reason? nor, Can they talk? but, Can they suffer?" - Jeremy Benthem.

* "You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity." - Ralph Waldo Emerson.

* "I cannot fish without falling a little in self-respect...always when I have done I feel it would have been better if I had not fished." - Henry David Thoreau.

* "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.

2 comments:

zero-state said...

Rather than "beautiful" shud be something else...probably...."thought provoking" or something like that..what say? :p

Entheo said...

Great Quotes Adarsh