Victoria Moran Quotes

Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.

Fair treatment of human beings and animals in many different realms strikes a chord with me.

Being a humanitarian, supporting animal rights activists, human rights activists, it's all the same.

Now, and in the future, my focus is entirely on pets and children. I'm not a person who can turn a blind eye to injustice against them.

If you treat animals how you want to be treated, you're a lot better off.

At PETA, we often say that the issue of how animals are treated isn't just about them; it's about us, how we behave.

Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals. And in this respect mankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it.

There are many reasons for kindness, and religion is just one of them.

The human spirit is not dead. It lives on in secret.... It has come to believe that compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind

No living being should have to endure conditions that you wouldn't put on your worst enemy.

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.

I have the luxury of being a little boy... To me, the most important thing in life is to be a human being. Second is acting.

I don't mind if my future is long or short, as long as I'm doing the right thing. And as long as I behave for other people.

I prefer to conduct my life based on how I treat people.

I follow three rules: Do the right thing, do the best you can, and always show people you care.

Is literature more important than hurting people? You can't argue that. You can't say it. It's impossible.

I was raised by my parents to believe that you had a moral obligation to try and help save the world.

I can do no other than be reverent before everything that is called life. I can do no other than to have compassion for all that is called life. That is the beginning and the foundation of all ethics.

I just want to reflect the respect I have for animals.

For me, the only sources of moral values are the pursuit of understanding and the pursuit of happiness.

If you saw a dog going to be crushed under a car, wouldn't you help him?

I can assuredly say that it's my life's mission to love all people.

Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.

Animal-rights advocates remind us of this admonition: The ways in which people treat animals will be reflected in how people relate to one another.

Animal welfare issues have always been important to me.