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The assumption that animals are without rights, and the illusion that our treatment of them has no moral significance, is a positively outrageous example of Western crudity and barbarity. Universal compassion in the only guarantee of morality. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

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[T]he infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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10 percent of any population is cruel, no matter what, and 10 percent is merciful, no matter what, and the remaining 80 percent can be moved in either direction. ↗

— Susan Sontag

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Goodness, real goodness, has it's own sort of cruelty to it. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

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To be a vegetarian is to disagree - to disagree with the course of things today... starvation, cruelty - we must make a statement against these things. Vegetarianism is my statement. And I think it's a strong one. ↗

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

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I must be cruel only to be kind; Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind. ↗

— William Shakespeare

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Auschwitz begins wherever someone looks at a slaughterhouse and thinks: they’re only animals. ↗

— Theodor W. Adorno

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I don't believe in the concept of hell, but if I did I would think of it as filled with people who were cruel to animals. ↗

— Gary Larson

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Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable. --Blanche Dubois ↗

— Tennessee Williams

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I became a vegetarian after realizing that animals feel afraid, cold, hungry and unhappy like we do. I feel very deeply about vegetarianism and the animal kingdom. It was my dog Boycott who led me to question the right of humans to eat other sentient beings. ↗

— César Chávez

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