Quotes About Killing Animals
“Even in the worm that crawls in the earth there glows a divine spark. When you slaughter a creature, you slaughter God.” –Isaac Bashevis Singer
“As long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seeds of murder and pain cannot reap the joy of love.” –Pythagoras
“I do not like eating meat because I have seen lambs and pigs killed. I saw and felt their pain. They felt their approaching death. I could not bear it. I cried like a child. I ran up a hill and could not breathe. I felt that I was choking. I felt the death of the lamb.” –Nijinsky, Vaslav
“It is not THIS bloodshed, or THAT bloodshed, that must cease; but ALL bloodshed—all wanton infliction of pain or death.” –Henry Salt
“We are the living graves of murdered beasts, slaughtered to satisfy our appetites. How can we hope in this world to attain the peace we say we are so anxious for?” –George Bernard Shaw
“‘Thou shalt not kill’ does not apply to murder of one’s own kind only, but to all living beings and this commandment was inscribed in the human breast long before it was proclaimed from Sinai.” –Leo Tolstoy
“Killing an animal is not the same thing as mowing the grass. A life ends. That’s something you take seriously. What does the word ‘sacred’ mean? You do not treat it as an ordinary thing. Killing cattle is not the same as running grain through a mill.” –Temple Grandin, PhD
“The habit of shedding blood, or even of seeing it shed, corrupts all sentiment of humanity.” –Constantin Francois Chasseboeuf
“As long as people will shed the blood of innocent creatures there can be no peace, no liberty, no harmony between people. Slaughter and justice cannot dwell together.” –Isaac Bashevis Singer
“Those who, by their purchases, require animals to be killed have no right to be shielded from the slaughterhouse or any other aspect of the production of the meat they buy. If it is distasteful for humans to think about, what can it be like for the animals to experience it?” –Peter Singer
