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Tagore - Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.

Thoreau, Henry David (1817-1862) - No humane being, past the thoughtless age of boyhood, will wantonly murder any creature which holds it's life by the same tenure that he does.

Thoreau, Henry David (1817-1862) - I have no doubt that it is part of the destiny of the human race in its gradual development to leave off the eating of animals, as surely as the savage tribes have left off eating each other when they came into contact with the more civilized.

Tolstoy, Leo - If a man aspires towards a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from injury to animals.

Tolstoy, Leo (1828-1910) - A human can be healthy without killing animals for food. Therefore if he eats meat he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite.

Tolstoy, Leo (1828-1910) - If he be really and seriously seeking to live a good life, the first thing from which he will abstain will always be the use of animal food, because its use is simply immoral, as it involves the performance of an act which is contrary to the moral feeling killing.

Tolstoy, Leo (author War and Peace |1828 - 1910) - This is dreadful! Not the suffering and death of the animals, but that a man suppresses in himself, unnecessarily, the highest spiritual capacity that of sympathy and pity towards living creatures like himself and by violating his own feelings becomes cruel.

Twain, Mark - I believe I am not interested to know whether vivisection produces results that are profitable to the human race or doesn't. To know that the results are profitable to the race would not remove my hostility to it. THE PAIN WHICH IT INFLICTS UPON NON-CONSENTING ANIMALS is the basis of my enmity toward it, and it is to me sufficient justification of the enmity without looking further.

Twain, Mark (author) - In studying the traits and dispositions of the so-called lower animals, and contrasting them with man's, I find the result humiliating to me.

Twain, Mark (author) - Of all the creatures ever made, Man is the most detestable. He is the only creature that inflicts pain for sport, knowing it to be pain.