“Rage is a red, near-animate force, as bloated with compassion as a starving serpent.”

Source: Bleak Seasons (1996), Chapter 101 (p. 270)

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American fiction writer 1944

Victoria Moran (1950) American writer

Compassion, the Ultimate Ethic: An Exploration of Veganism (Wellingborough: Thorsons, 1985), p. 44.

“An ox is of a very different nature from a fox, and men (some of them) are very unlike serpents, because the classes of impulses in the consciousnesses of these animals are for the most part very different in one animal from another. Serpents, oxen, foxes, and men, however, are all similar in their eagerness to reproduce themselves, and in their emphatic reluctance to die.”

J. Howard Moore (1862–1916)

Source: Better-World Philosophy: A Sociological Synthesis (1899), The Derivation of the Nature of Living Beings, p. 172

“Lo, steel-clad War his gorgeous standard rears!
The red-cross squadrons madly rage,
And mow thro' infancy and age”

Samuel Rogers (1763–1855) British poet

III.2. l. 1-3.
Ode to Superstition (1786)

“Being a vegan, caring about animals … all this compassion in my lifestyle is the reward in and of itself.”

Steve-O (1974) England-born American stunt performer/radio personality

"Steve-O Snags Top PETA Honor" https://www.peta.org/blog/steve-o-takes-top-peta-honor/, PETA (July 18, 2011).

“Tho' Doubt's beleaguering forces hem us in,
Yet Truth upon the Serpent's head shall trample.
The cause of Love shall win”

Henrik Ibsen Love's Comedy

Falk, Act III
Love's Comedy (1862)

“It is a crime against humanity, while people are starving, to funnel massive amounts of crops through animals so we can eat animals when those crops should be feeding human beings.”

Bruce Friedrich (1969) Member of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals

Bruce Friedrich on Protein Alternatives and the Good Food Institute https://hearthisidea.com/episodes/bruce, Interview on the Hear This Idea podcast, 2021

“The socialist is not a human, but an animal, because a human differs from an animal in this that he has moral values, and the Reds (socialists), as their program states, they disobey them.”

Janusz Korwin-Mikke (1942) polish politician

Source: blog, 28 June 2007

“Animals in their generation are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.”

Joseph Addison (1672–1719) politician, writer and playwright

No. 120 (18 July 1711).
The Spectator (1711–1714)

“Vegetarianism alone can give us the quality of compassion, which distinguishes man from the rest of the animal world.”

Morarji Desai (1896–1995) Former Indian Finance Minister, Freedom Fighters, Former prime minister

19th World Vegetarian Congress 1967

“How can he practice true compassion
Who eats the flesh of an animal to fatten his own flesh?”

Thiruvalluvar book Tirukkuṛaḷ

Verse 251.
Tirukkural

“Rage is a red, near-animate force, as bloated with compassion as a starving serpent.”

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