The lower animals are our brethren. I include among them the lion and the tiger. We do not know how to live with these carnivorous beasts and poisonous reptiles because of our ignorance. When man learns better, he will learn to befriend even these. Today he does not even know how to befriend a man of a different religion or from a different country.

—Mahatma Gandhi

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About Mahatma Gandhi

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Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (2 October 1869 – 30 January 1948) was an Indian lawyer, anti-colonial nationalist, and political ethicist who employed nonviolent resistance to lead the successful campaign for India's independence from British rule, and whose legacy would later inspire movements for civil rights and freedom across the world. The...

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The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

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Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

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As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it.

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A man is but the product of his thoughts, what he thinks he becomes.

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I want freedom for the full expression of my personality.

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It was quite incomprehensible to me… why in my evening prayers I should pray for human beings only. So when my mother had prayed with me and had kissed me goodnight, I used to add silently a prayer that I had composed myself for all living creatures. It ran thus: "O Heavenly Father, protect and bless all things that have breath; guard them from all evil, and let them sleep in peace. "

—Albert Schweitzer

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Animals give us their constant, unjaded faces, and we burden them with our bodies and civilized ordeals.

—Gretel Ehrlich

My mother thought it would make us feel better to know that animals had no souls, and thus their deaths were not to be taken seriously. But it didn't help, and when I think of some of the animals I have known, I wonder. The only really "soulful" eyes in the world belong to the dog or cat who sits on your lap or at your feet, commiserating when you cry.

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I'm not a vegetarian because I love animals. I'm a vegetarian because I hate plants.

—A. Whitney Brown

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I believe that animals have been talking to human beings ever since we were all made and put into this world.

—Barbara Woodhouse

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