Mercy For Animals Quotes

#1. The lifeblood of Mercy For Animals is our undercover investigations of animal agriculture.

Nathan Runkle

#2. Buddhism cannot be true to itself until Buddhists resolve their ambivalence toward nonhuman animals and extend the full protection of their compassion to the most harmless and helpless of those who live at our mercy in the visible realms.

Norm Phelps

#3. Mercy to animals means mercy to mankind.

Henry Bergh

#4. Humanity's true moral test, its fundamental test, consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals. And in this respect humankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it.

Milan Kundera

#5. True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power. Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test (which is deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals.

Milan Kundera

#6. Mankind's real moral test, a test so radical and so deep that it escapes our gaze, is probably the one of its relations with those that are the most at its mercy; the Animals.

Milan Kundera

#7. If we wish for mercy ourselves, we must show mercy to all dumb animals.

Joyce Lambert

#8. Buddha taught kindness towards lower beings; and since then there has not been a sect in India that has not taught charity to all beings, even to animals. This kindness, this mercy, this charity - greater than any doctrine - are what Buddhism left to us.

Swami Vivekananda

#9. We are all God's creatures-that we pray to God for mercy and justice while we continue to eat the flesh of animals that are slaughtered on our account is not consistent.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

#10. With human beings, a natural death was a death with dignity. But animals were innocents, and as their stewards, people owed them mercy.

Dean Koontz

#11. The Angels of (Mercy) do not enter a house in which there are pictures (of animals).

Muhammad Al-Bukhari