So this is how it goes this is how it ends I like to be alone
I see the faith the hope the rain and wash it fresh and new but no
It’s all still there and I cry and I cry because I love so much
I love with all my heart but not the things I should like people
And other people and children and old people but instead I love
This idea and this animal and this mountain but not you and
How can you understand that when I say I wish I could I mean it
With every bit of myself I mean it but I would never ever trade
Anything for this love I have this passion I contain this furious
Desire to do this something for the world and it’s not your fault
That my heart wants more than just you and you and you and you
Because that’s how it works and lets face it life sometimes sucks like
That because if you had me you wouldn’t have the whole me and
I wouldn’t have it any other way because this is more than me and
Definitely more than you and mostly more than all of us and so so
Important so so crucial and I will devote my life to it and no I will not
Regret doing what I must because that’s my life and my love and just
Because it’s not like yours does not mean it’s wrong
-"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 Bentham
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"For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seed of murder and pain cannot reap joy and love."
Pythagoras
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"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
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"Our task must be to free ourselves . . . by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty."
"Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances of survival for life on earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet."
Albert Einstein
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"I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being."
Abraham Lincoln
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"You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"As long as there are slaughterhouses, there will be battlefields."
"What I think about vivisection is that if people admit that they have the right to take or endanger the life of living beings for the benefit of many, there will be no limit to their cruelty."
Leo Tolstoy
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"While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered beasts, how can we expect any ideal conditions on this earth?"
George Bernard Shaw
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"The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated."
"To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being."
Mahatma Gandhi
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"I am not interested to know whether vivisection produces results that are profitable to the human race or doesn't...The pain which it inflicts upon unconsenting animals is the basis of my enmity toward it, and it is to me sufficient justification of the enmity without looking further."
Mark Twain
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"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