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For animals that are overworked, underfed, and cruelly treated; for all wistful creatures in captivity that beat their wings against bars; for any tha...more

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The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.

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Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itse...more

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Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace.

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We must fight against the spirit of unconscious cruelty with which we treat the animals. Animals suffer as much as we do. True humanity does not allow...more

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Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.

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A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfull...more

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True philosophy must start from the most immediate and comprehensive fact of consciousness: 'I am life that wants to live, in the midst of life that w...more

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The fundamental principle of morality which we seek as a necessity for thought is not, however, a matter only of arranging and deepening current views...more