Please note that we have now commenced a different group and QGAR is now closed. Our new group is LOBSA.ORG......... "Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain it's full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to humankind" - Albert Schweitzer ..................... "Thousands - millions and billions - of animals are killed for food. That is very sad. We human beings can live without meat, especially in our modern world. We have a great variety of vegetables and other supplementary foods, so we have the capacity and the responsibility to save billions of lives."- His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama ..................... "I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free" - Michelangelo ..................."Killing animals for sport, for pleasure, for adventures, and for hides and furs is a phenomenon which is at once disgusting and distressing. There is no justification in indulging in such acts of brutality." ~ His Holiness the XIV Dalai Lama "The greatness of a nation can be.judged by the way its animals are treated."..................."To my mind the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being. I should be unwilling to take the life of a lamb for the sake of the human body. I hold that, the more helpless a creature, the more entitled it is to the protection by man from the cruelty of man." ......................"In the future, meat-eaters, speaking out of ignorance, will say that the Buddha permitted the eating of meat, and that he taught there was no sin in doing so." - Prediction in the Lankavatara Sutra made by the Buddha...................... "To become vegetarian is to step into the stream which leads to nirvana...... - Buddha.................."To see the universal and all-pervading Spirit of Truth face to face one must be able to love the mearest of creation as oneself."....................."We must be the change we wish to see."....Mahatma Gandhi.................."Not to hurt our humble brethren (the animals ) is our first duty to them, but to stop there is not enough. We have a higher mission - to be of service to them whenever they require it... If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men".....St Francis of Assisi............."To shut your mind, heart, imagination to the sufferings of others is to begin slowly but inexorably to die. It is to cease by inches from being human, to become in the end capable of nothing, generous or unselfish ? or sometimes capable of anything, however terrible."......John Austin Baker, Bishop of Salisbury.............."I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men."......Leonardo Da Vinci, artist, designer, inventor and scientist............."You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity." .............Ralph Waldo Emerson.............."To a man whose mind is free there is something even more intolerable in the sufferings of animals than in the sufferings of man. For with the latter it is at least admitted that suffering is evil and that the man who causes it is a criminal. But thousands of animals are uselessly butchered every day without a shadow of remorse. If any man were to refer to it, he would be thought ridiculous. And that is the unpardonable crime.".....Romain Rolland, author, Nobel Prize 1915............."As custodians of the planet it is our responsibility to deal with all species with kindness, love and compassion. That these animals suffer through human cruelty is beyond understanding. Please help to stop this madness."Richard Gere............."Animal liberation is also human liberation. Animal liberationists care about the quality of life for all. We recognize our kinship with all feeling beings. We identify with the powerless and the vulnerable ? the victims, all those dominated, oppressed and exploited. And it is the non-human animals whose suffering is the most intense, widespread, expanding, systematic and socially sanctioned of all.".......Henry Spira............."But for the sake of some little mouthful of flesh we deprive a soul of the sun and light, and of that proportion of life and time it had been born into the world to enjoy.".............Plutarch............."Refrain at all times from such foods as cannot be procured without violence and oppression."...............Thomas Tryon:..........."Show me the enforced laws of a state for the prevention of cruelty to animals and I in turn will give you a correct estimate of the refinement, enlightenment, integrity and equality of that commonwealth's people."......L.T. Danshiell............."The wild, cruel beast is not behind the bars of the cage. He is in front of it." ......Axel Munthe.............."We consume the carcasses of creatures of like appetites, passions and organs as our own, and fill the slaughterhouses daily with screams of pain and fear."....Robert Louis Stevenson............."Life is life's greatest gift. Guard the life of another creature as you would your own because it is your own. On life's scale of values, the smallest is no less precious to the creature that owns it than the largest."......Lloyd Buggle Jr.