{"quotes":[{"text":"I've seen all kinds of things done to dolphins in my travels around the world, but I have never seen anything as horrible as this dolphin drive hunt in Taiji.","author":"Richard O'Barry","tags":["animal-cruelty","animal-rights","animal-welfare","corruption"],"id":27487,"author_id":"Richard+O%27Barry"},{"text":"Unnecessary violence against animals is a heinous crime. Be a voice for those who do not have one.","author":"Debasish Mridha","tags":["animal-cruelty","be-a-voice-for-animals","debasish-mridha","debasish-mridha-md","inspirational","philosophy","quotes","unnecessary-violence","violence-against-animals"],"id":28431,"author_id":"Debasish+Mridha"},{"text":"I remember one bobcat they had in here - now bobcats are an endangered species in this neck of the woods - they'd caught it somewhere and they must have put that cat through a dozen rounds of burn experiments before they finally determined that it was utterly useless to them. Like an empty beer can. And then you know what they did to it? Claudius was late for a lunch date so rather thanput the destroyed but still breathing animal to sleep, he picked it up by its hind legs and simply smashed its head against a wall repeatedly until it was dead. How can I forget it: I was the one told to clean up the mess. The head dented in. The eyes slowly closing. The once proud claws hanging down, stunned and lifeless, the utter senselessness of it all, and the hate, a hatred that was consummated in me which is as dangerous a hormone, or chemical, or portion of the brain, as any neutron bomb. Except that I didnt know how to explode. I was like a computer without a keyboard, a bird without wings. Roaring inside. I wanted to kill that man. To do unto others what they had done unto me. I was that bobcat, you better believe it.","author":"Michael Tobias","tags":["animal-cruelty","animal-rights","animal-testing","science","vegan","vegetarianism","vivisection"],"id":63518,"author_id":"Michael+Tobias"},{"text":"A suffering or tortured animal always filled her with such a surge of sympathy that it lifted her clean out of herself.","author":"L.M. Montgomery","tags":["animal-cruelty","animal-lovers","cruelty","cruelty-to-animals"],"id":69400,"author_id":"L.M.+Montgomery"},{"text":"Roaches should never trust humans. We’re all doomed.","author":"La Tisha Honor","tags":["animal-cruelty","animal","animal-rights","animal-stories","extermination","funny-book","professor-dubly","roach","roaches","survival","survival-instincts","survival-of-the-fittest","teen-roach","warning"],"id":78670,"author_id":"La+Tisha+Honor"},{"text":"It should be noted, as with so many legends and popularly accepted truths created out of political motivation: There, in fact, is no evidence that the hundreds of murders historically attributed to the werewolves of Gévaudan were actually caused by wolves. As with all witchhunts, the endless battle against ignorance requires one to always keep an open mind and sharp wits when considering such rumors - especially the rumors we choose to enjoy.","author":"Zeena Schreck","tags":["animal-cruelty","animal-liberation","animal-rights","animal-stories","beatdom","environmentalism","ignorance","shapeshifters","werewolves","witch-hunts","wolves","zeena-schreck"],"id":109816,"author_id":"Zeena+Schreck"},{"text":"Meat may taste good, but the guilt of eating it tastes far worse.","author":"Evan Baldonado","tags":["animal-cruelty","animal-rights","animals","food","meat","meat-industry","meat-is-murder","vegan","veganism","vegetarian","vegetarianism"],"id":131626,"author_id":"Evan+Baldonado"},{"text":"I want to find a way of speaking to fellow human beings that will be cool rather than heated, philosophical rather than polemical, that will bring enlightenment rather than seeking to divide us into the righteous and the sinners, the saved and the damned, the sheep and the goats.","author":"J.M. Coetzee","tags":["animal-cruelty","nature","philosophy"],"id":223327,"author_id":"J.M.+Coetzee"},{"text":"If you want to test cosmetics, why do it on some poor animal who hasn't done anything? They should use prisoners who have been convicted of murder or rape instead. So, rather than seeing if perfume irritates a bunny rabbit's eyes, they should throw it in Charles Manson's eyes and ask him if it hurts.","author":"Ellen DeGeneres","tags":["animal-cruelty","animal-rights","animal-testing","animal-welfare","animals","cosmetics","ethics","prisoners","vegan","veganism"],"id":226881,"author_id":"Ellen+DeGeneres"},{"text":"Who knows what the long-term effects of saving rescue dogs are and the healing lessons and love they bring to Earth? Each one of us has the capacity to influence hundreds - even thousands of people or animals through the way we live our lives.","author":"Jadi Kindred","tags":["animal-communication","animal-cruelty","animal-rights","animal-stories","animal-welfare","animals","dogs-and-humans","inspirational","memoir","pets","spirituality"],"id":239660,"author_id":"Jadi+Kindred"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":27,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}