I am a total quote junkie - I keep a long list that I save. I completely *love* these 2 you picked and will be adding them....most especially bc I think they're both so very salient to this community, ya know? They fit.
You might really enjoy this thread too:
http://www.yorkietalk.com/forums/ani...fare-fans.html Here are some of my all time faves:
If to be feelingly alive to the sufferings of my fellow-creatures is to be a fanatic, I am one of the most incurable fanatics ever permitted to be at large. - William Wilberforce
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self evident. - Arthur Schopenhauer
How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours. -Wayne Dyer
Start where you are, use what you have, do what you can. -Arthur Ashe
"Humanity's true moral test, its fundamental test, consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals. And in this respect humankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it." —Milan Kundera
“The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.“ - Mahatma Ghandi
When nothing seems to help, I go look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before. --Jacob Riis
When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion. --Abraham Lincoln