Leo Tolstoy Quotes About Animal Rights
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It may be suggested by some books that it is not a sin to kill an animal, but it is written in our own hearts - more clearly than in any book - that we should take pity on animals in the same way as we do on humans.
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'Thou shalt not kill' does not apply to murder of one's own kind only, but to all living beings and this commandment was inscribed in the human breast long before it was proclaimed from Sinai.
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A man can live and 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.
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Man by violating his own feelings becomes cruel. And how deeply seated in the human heart is the injunction not to take life.
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What I think about vivisection is that if people admit that they have the right to take or endanger the life of living beings for the benefit of many, there will be no limit to their cruelty.
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Between the murder of an animal and the murder of a man, there's no more than ONE step!
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A human can be healthy without killing animals for food.
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