As long as man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Man has done a lot to make himself dangerous and animals get the worst of all of it. But then, man too is an animal.
He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.
Wars, however frequent and destructive they may be, have never been able to kill entirely the intellectual and moral sense which raises man above the beast.
Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace.
If you can kill animals, the same attitude can kill human beings. The mentality is the same which exploits nature and which creates wars.
All the arguments to prove man's superiority cannot shatter this hard fact: in suffering the animals are our equals.
Either men will learn to live like brothers, or they will die like beasts.
Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.
Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
There is peace more destructive of the manhood of living man than war is destructive of his material body.