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“For man is the cruellest animal.” Friedrich Nietzsche, “Thus Spoke Zarathustra” - 1891

“Now if nature makes nothing incomplete, and nothing in vain, the inference must be that she has made all animals for the sake of man.” Aristotle, “Politics”

“there is no folly of the beasts of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men.” Herman Melville, “Moby-Dick” - 1851

“Never did he fail to respond savagely to the chatter of the squirrel he had first met on the blasted pine.” Jack London, “White Fang” - 1906

“But there is no estimating the wit and wisdom concealed and latent in our lower fellow mortals until made manifest by profound experiences; for it is through suffering that dogs as well as saints are developed and made perfect.” John Muir, “Stickeen” - 1897

“The wind passing through the skins of animals will make men dance.” Leonardo da Vinci, “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci” - 1478 – 1519

“Independence is all very well, but we animals never allow our friends to make fools of themselves beyond a certain limit; and that limit you've reached.” Kenneth Grahame, “The Wind in the Willows” - 1908

“Animals arrived, liked the look of the place, took up their quarters, settled down, spread, and flourished. They didn't bother themselves about the past—they never do; they're too busy.” Kenneth Grahame, “The Wind in the Willows” - 1908

“Animals when in company walk in a proper and sensible manner, in single file, instead of sprawling all across the road and being of no use or support to each other in case of sudden trouble or danger.” Kenneth Grahame, “The Wind in the Willows” - 1908

“Moreover, when our hearts are authentically open to universal communion, this sense of fraternity excludes nothing and no one. It follows that our indifference or cruelty towards fellow creatures of this world sooner or later affects the...” Pope Francis, “Laudato si'” - 24 May 2015

“Four legs good, two legs bad!” George Orwell, “Animal Farm” - 1945

“Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy. Whatever goes upon four legs, or has wings, is a friend.” George Orwell, “Animal Farm” - 1945

“No question, now, what had happened to the faces of the pigs. The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.” George Orwell, “Animal Farm” - 1945

“All men are enemies. All animals are comrades.” George Orwell, “Animal Farm” - 1945

“But isn’t it also that on some fundamental level we find it difficult to understand that other people are human beings in the same way that we are? We idealize them as gods or dismiss them as animals.” John Green, “Paper Towns” - 2008

“Dogs do not have many advantages over people, but one of them is extremely important: euthanasia is not forbidden by law in their case; animals have the right to a merciful death.” Milan Kundera, “The Unbearable Lightness of Being” - 1984

“All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it—and they do enjoy it as much as man and other circumstances will allow.” Samuel Butler, “The Way of All Flesh” - 1903

“Ethically they had arrived at the conclusion that man's supremacy over the lower animals meant not that the former should prey upon the latter, but that the higher should protect the lower, and that there should be mutual aid between the two as...” Mahatma Gandhi, “The Story of my Experiments with Truth” - 1929

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