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I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men will look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men.
?UnattributedOften credited to Leonardo da Vinci
Man has much power of discourse which for the most part is vain and false; animals have but little, but it is useful and true, and a small truth is better than a great lie.
Leonardo da Vinci1452–1519XIX Philosophical Maxims. Morals. Polemics and Speculations.
- Truth & Lies
The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for whites or women for men.
Alice Walkerborn 1944Foreword to The Dreaded Comparison: Animal Slavery and Human Slavery (1996) by Marjorie Spiegel, p. 14.
An animal may be ferocious and cunning enough, but it takes a real man to tell a lie.
H. G. Wells1866–1946The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896), Chapter XXIIn context
- Truth & Lies
If a lion could talk, we could not understand him.
Ludwig Wittgenstein1889–1951Philosophical Investigations (1953), Pt II, p. 223 of the 1968 English edition
- Talking