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Magel, Professor Charles - Ask the experimenters why they experiment on animals, and the answer is: 'Because the animals are like us.' Ask the experimenters why it is morally OK to experiment on animals, and the answer is: 'Because the animals are not like us.' Animal experimentation rests on a logical contradiction.

Maimonides (physician and philosopher) - It should not be believed that all beings exist for the sake of the existence of man. On the contrary, all the other beings too have been intended for their own sakes and not for the sake of anything else.

Maynard - Put a small child in a playpen with an apple and a bunny. If s/he eats the apple and plays with the bunny, s/he's normal;but if s/he eats the bunny and plays with the apple, I'll buy you a new car. Somewhere along the line we must have been TAUGHT to do the wrong thing.

McCartney, Paul - The medical argument for animal testing doesn't stand up. Even if it did, I don't think we should kill other species. We think we're so much better; I'm not sure we are. I tell people, "We've beaten into submission every animal on the face of the Earth, so we are the clear winners of whatever battle is going on between the species. Couldn't we be generous? I really do think it' s time to get nice. No need to keep beating up on them. I think we've got to show that we're kind.

McElroy, Susan Chernak (Gary Buffalo Horn Man in "Animals as Teachers and Healers") - Animals have been here longer than we have. They are our older brothers and sisters. If you ask you older brother or sister to help you, they will... If we ask in a respectful way for help, we humans, the youngest children of Creation, will receive it most of the time.

McGrand, Fred A. - Cruelty has cursed the human family for countless ages. It is almost impossible for one to be cruel to animals and kind to humans. If children are permitted to be cruel to their pets and other animals, they easily learn to get the same pleasure from the misery of fellow-humans. Such tendencies can easily lead to crime.

McGraw, Ali (actress) - I have always felt that the way we treat animals is a pretty good indicator of the compassion we are capable of for the human race.

McMillan, Stuart - A meow massages the heart.

Mead, Margaret - Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it is the only thing that ever does.

Menhuin, Yehudi - Why is compassion not part of the established curriculum, an inherent part of our education? Compassion, awe, wonder, curiosity, humility these are the foundation of any real cilisation, no longer the prerogatives, the preserves of any one church, but belonging to everyone, every child in every home in every school.

Mery, Fernand - Are cats lazy? Well, more power to them if they are. Which one of us has not entertained the dream of doing just as he likes, when and how he likes, and as much as he likes?

Montaigne, Michel de (1533-1592) - After they had accustomed themselves at Rome to the spectacles of the slaughter of animals, they proceeded to those of the slaughter of men, to the gladiators.

Moore, Professor J. Howard - "A universe is, indeed, to be pitied whose dominating inhabitants are so unconscious and so ethically embryonic that they make life a commodity, mercy a disease, and systematic massacre a pastime and a profession."

Moore, Mary Tyler - Behind every beautiful fur, there is a story. It is a bloody, barbaric story.

Mumford, Lewis - The very people who shudder over the cruelty of the hunter are apt to forget that slaughter, in the grimmest sense of the word, is a process they entrust daily to the butcher; and that unlike the game of the forests, even the dumbest creatures of the slaughterhouse know what is in store for them.