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Dedicated to those who suffer
HUMANIMAL
Advice for the reader
Read this book with someone, preferably a friend, to reflect and discuss together: dialogue and exchange of ideas enrich us and allow us to improve.
Do not read too much at once; every sentence would deserve a careful consideration.
Read every sentence in the book: many ideas are complementary and can help you to discover new meanings.
Try to take into consideration both the quotes and their authors or sources. In many cases it will help you understand their meaning and you will often be surprised. If you wish (and if you don’t already know) try also to find out a little bit more about them.
Mark the quotes you like the most, so that you can easily find them again, but don’t forget to give a look at the other ones too, from time to time: you may see them under a new light.
Obviously, you are not supposed to agree with everything you read in this book; however, please try to understand the point of view and the feelings of the authors, and the meaning of their words.
The purpose of this book is to create awareness: so take and keep whatever you like the most of it, but, please, try to be sure your thoughts, your choices and your behavior are based on how things really are, and not just on what you’re told, that they are the result of your own choices, and not of habit and laziness, that they are fruit of the best gifts you have, your mind and your heart… don’t waste them!
The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, Indian political and spiritual leader
"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. It's clear that our Creator doesn't condone cruelty to animals in any way. "Thou shalt not kill" could have been written "Thou shalt not kill thy fellow man." Instead, it was all inclusive, highlighting the sanctity of life no matter what the species.
Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy, Russian writer
All living things fear being beaten with clubs. All living things fear being put to death. Putting oneself in the place of the other,
let no one kill nor cause another to kill.
Dhammapada, Buddhist scripture
A hundred years from now, it will not matter the sort of house I lived in, what my bank account was, or the car I drove… but the world may be different because I was important in the life of animals and the creatures of this earth.
Anonymous
A man of my spiritual intensity does not eat corpses.
George Bernard Shaw, playwright, Nobel prize
In studying the traits and dispositions of the so-called lower animals, and contrasting them with man's, I find the result humiliating to me.
Mark Twain, American author and humorist
In happiness and suffering, in joy and grief, we should regard all creatures as we regard our own self, and should therefore refrain from inflicting upon others such injury as would appear undesirable to us if inflicted upon ourselves.
Yogashastra, Jain Scripture
Animal studies can neither prove or guarantee the safety of any drug.
J. Jennings, Vice President, Science and Technology of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association.