"We do not inherit the land from our fathers, 
 we borrow it from our children."
 -
 Native American proverb

"A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all
 life which he is able to assist, and shrinks from injuring anything 
 that lives."
 -
 Albert Schweitzer

"Henry D. Thoreau,
 Ralph Waldo Emerson,
 Benjamin Franklin,
 St. Francis,
 Richard Wagner,
 Socrates... 
 All vegetarians!"

"It is totally unconscionable to subject defenseless animals to mutilation
 and death, just so a company can be the first to market a new shade of
 nail polish or a new, improved laundry detergant...  It's cruel, it's
 brutal, it's inhuman..."
 -
 Abigail Van Buren

"Alexander Pope,
 Ovid,
 Sir Issac Newton,
 Clint Walker,
 H.G. Wells,
 Pythagoras,
 Candice Bergen... 
 All vegetarians!"

"The greatness of a nation...
 can be judged by the way animals are treated."
 - 
 Gandhi

"Mahatma Gandhi,
 Horace Greeley,
 Leonardo Da Vinci,
 Clement of Alexandria,
 Buddha, 
 Dick Gregory,
 John Wesley...  
 All vegetarians!"

"The worst sin against our fellow creatures is not to hate them,
 but to be indifferent to them.  That's the essence of inhumanity."
 -
 George Bernard Shaw

"While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered animals,
 how can we expect any ideal conditions on the earth?"
 -
 Leo Tolstoy

"Einstein was a vegetarian... think about it."

"Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things,
 man will not himself find peace."
 -
 Albert Schweitzer

"The day will come when men such as I will look upon the murder 
 of animals as they now look on the murder of men."
 -
 Leonardo Da Vinci

"We cannot glimpse the essential life of a caged animal, only the
 shawdow of [her] former beauty."
 -
 Julia Allen Field  (Defenders #42)

"The fate of animals is of greater importance to me than the fear of
 appearing ridiculous; it is indissolubly connected with the fate of
 men."
 -
 Emile Zola

"Einstein was a vegetarian... think about it."

"We can judge the heart of man by his treatment of animals."
 -
 Immanuel Kant

"Now [that] I can look at you in peace; I don't eat you any more."
 -
 Franz Kafka

"People who let their dogs and cats have litters in order to show their
 children the 'miracle of birth' should come witness the 'miracle of
 death' performed in the back rooms of animal shelters all over the
 country."
 -
 Phyllis Wright, HSUS

"If your heart isn't in the right place, it doesn't matter where
 your money is."

"Until we stop harming all living things we are still savages."
 -
 Thomas A. Edison