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All breathing, existing, living, sentient creatures should not be slain, nor treated with violence, nor abused, nor tormented, nor driven away.
A dog cannot relate his autobiography; however eloquently he may bark, he cannot tell you that his parents were honest but poor.
Histories are more full of Examples of the Fidelity of dogs than of Friends.
True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power.
Researchers find it very necessary to keep blinkers on. They don't want to admit that the animals they are working with have feelings.
Cry 'Havoc!,' and let slip the dogs of war.
Humans inflict untold suffering and death on many billions of animals every year, and the overwhelming majority of humans are heavily complicit.
David Benatar Permissible Progeny? The Morality of Procreation and Parenting (2015)
It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.
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