No one in the world needs an elephant tusk but an elephant. – Thomas Schmidt
Cows provide approx 100 million tonnes of dry dung a year costing Rs 5000 crores which saves 50 million tonnes of firewood which again means that many trees saved and more environmental damage prevented. It is calculated that if these 73 million animals were to be replaced, we would need 7.3 million tractors at the cost of 2.5 lac each which would amount to an investment of 180,000 crores. In addition 2 crore, 37 lakh and 50 thousand tonnes of diesel which would mean another 57,000 crore rupees. This is how much we owe these animals, and this is what we stand to lose by killing them. – Maneka Gandhi
Hunting is not a sport. In a sport, both sides should know they’re in the game. – Paul Rodriguez
…almost every pearl on sale today was born of the planned sexual violation of a small creature, and that considerable suffering hangs on those necklace strings. – Victoria Finlay
The tragedy of animal abuse is not just in the suffering it causes, but in the lost potential of the animals and the lost humanity of the abuser.
I have no doubt that it is part of the destiny of the human race in its gradual improvement to leave off eating animals. – Henry David Thoreau
I believe animals should be respected as citizens of this earth. They should have the right to their own freedom, their own families, and their own life. – John Feldmann
God made all the creatures and gave them our love and our fear, To give sign, we and they are His children, one family here. – Robert Browning
Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight. – Albert Schweitzer
Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow-creatures is amusing in itself. – James Anthony Froude
If I had my way…there wouldn’t be a single lion or tiger in captivity anywhere in the world. They never take to it. They’re never happy. They never settle down. You can see it in their eyes.
People who care about animals tend to care about people. They don’t care about animals to the exclusion of people. Caring is not a finite resource and, even more than that, it’s like a muscle: the more you exercise it, the stronger it gets. – Jonathan Safran Foer
Drinking without being thirsty and making love at any time, Madame, are the only things that distinguish us from other animals. – Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais
For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seed of murder and pain cannot reap joy and love. – Pythagoras
Animals can communicate quite well. And they do. And generally speaking, they are ignored. – Alice Walker
Kindness and compassion towards all living things is a mark of a civilized society. Conversely, cruelty, whether it is directed against human beings or against animals, is not the exclusive province of any one culture or community of people. – Cesar Chavez
Elephants are big, powerful but fragile. We are dealing with a fragile eco-system. Look at the money involved in poaching. Man must give way to the elephant. We are not gong to allow anyone to come in the path of the elephant. – Sharad A. Bobde
One day I chanced to see the slaughter of a chicken, which made me decide to be a vegetarian. – Dalai Lama
Unless we change our food choices, nothing else matters. Because it is meat that is destroying most of our forests. It is meat that pollutes the waters. It is meat that is creating disease which leads to all our money being diverted to hospitals. So, it’s the first choice for anybody who wants to save the Earth. – Maneka Gandhi
Only elephants should own ivory. – Yao Ming
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