Salamat Animal Zone: August 2009

Quote for Fun or Inspiration

Animals are reliable, many full of love, true in their affections, predictable in their actions, grateful and loyal. Difficult standards for people to live up to. - Alfred A. Montapert
The question is not "can they reason?' nor "can they talk?" but rather, "can they suffer" - Jeremy Bentham -
I care not for a man's religion whose dog & cat are not the better of it. - Abraham Lincoln -
Killing animals for sport, for pleasure, for adventure, and for hides and furs is a phenomena which is at once disgusting and distressing. There is no justification in indulging in such acts of brutality. - His Holliness, The Dalai Lama -
Life is as dear to a mute creature as it is to man. Just as one wants happiness and fears pain, just as one wants to live and not die, so do other creatures. - His Holiness, The Dalai Lama -
We must become the change we want to see. - Mahatma Ghandi -
Life is an echo — what you send out comes back. - Unknown -
You may only be someone in the world, but to someone else, you may be the world. - Anonymous -