"The smallest feline is a masterpiece." --Leonardo Da Vinci

"They say the test of literary power is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, "Can he name a kitten?" --Samuel Butler

" Animals are my friends - and I do not eat my friends."
--George Bernard Shaw

"One can measure the greatness and the moral progress of a nation by looking at how it treats her animals."--Mahatma Gandhi

"Everything that humans do to the animals, return to the humans."
--Pythagoras

"You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"There is no fundamental difference between man and the higher animals in their mental faculties... The lower animals, like man, manifestly feel pleasure and pain, happiness, and misery." -- Charles Darwin