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Many of us are aware of the national media frenzy over the atrocity being committed by Mayor Vance Trively of Randolph, Iowa. He has offered a $5 bounty for each stray cat or dog brought in to be "disposed of". Click here for and here for more information.
We urge everyone to express your outrage against this "holocaust."
And we urge the "Honorable" Mayor Vance Trively to consider the following 13 quotes from those whose wisdom greatly exceeds his own ...
"We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals."
~~ Immanuel Kant
"Compassion for animals is intimately connected with goodness of character ... he who is cruel to animals cannot be a good man." ~~ Arthur Schopenhauer
"I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being ... I care not for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not better for it." ~~ Abraham Lincoln
"Until we stop harming all other living things, we are still savages."
~~ Thomas Edison
"If a man aspires toward a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from injury to animals." ~~ Albert Einstein
"If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men." ~~ Saint Francis of Assisi
"Animals suffer as much as we do. True humanity does not allow us to impose such sufferings upon them. ... Until we extend our circle of compassion to all living things, humanity will not find peace."
~~ Albert Schweitzer
"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 live together." ~~ Isaac Bashevis Singer
"When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble." ~~ Buddha
"The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man." ~~ Charles Darwin
"Why should man expect his prayer for mercy to be heard by what is above him when he shows no mercy to what is under him?"
~~ Pierre Troubetzkoy
"The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated." ~~ Mahatma Ghandi
"Ever occur to you why some of us can be this much concerned with animals suffering? Because government is not. Why not?
Animals don't vote."
~~ Paul Harvey
~~ Immanuel Kant
"Compassion for animals is intimately connected with goodness of character ... he who is cruel to animals cannot be a good man." ~~ Arthur Schopenhauer
"I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being ... I care not for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not better for it." ~~ Abraham Lincoln
"Until we stop harming all other living things, we are still savages."
~~ Thomas Edison
"If a man aspires toward a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from injury to animals." ~~ Albert Einstein
"If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men." ~~ Saint Francis of Assisi
"Animals suffer as much as we do. True humanity does not allow us to impose such sufferings upon them. ... Until we extend our circle of compassion to all living things, humanity will not find peace."
~~ Albert Schweitzer
"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 live together." ~~ Isaac Bashevis Singer
"When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble." ~~ Buddha
"The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man." ~~ Charles Darwin
"Why should man expect his prayer for mercy to be heard by what is above him when he shows no mercy to what is under him?"
~~ Pierre Troubetzkoy
"The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated." ~~ Mahatma Ghandi
"Ever occur to you why some of us can be this much concerned with animals suffering? Because government is not. Why not?
Animals don't vote."
~~ Paul Harvey
