“Before you were born, you didn’t exist — which means you were “dead” for millions of years without any awareness or suffering. So, why should the fact that you will be dead after you die be any different or scary? It’s just a return to the same state you were in before you existed.”
— Paraphrase from Richard Dawkins
“It takes nothing away from a human to be kind to an animal.”
— Joaquin Phoenix
“With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.”
— Steven Weinstein
“Animals are my friends and I don’t eat my friends.”
— George Bernard Shaw
“Gratuitous cruelty cannot take cover behind the fact of inevitable suffering.”
— Matthew Scully
“There is no fundamental difference between man and animals in their ability to feel pleasure and pain, happiness, and misery”
— Charles Darwin
“We humans love freedom, and yet we keep birds in cages.”