철학자,영적 지도자 레프 N. 톨스토이 (Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoi)
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러시아 대문호, 평화주의자, 도덕사상가 (1828-1910)
"실로 끔찍한 것은 동물의 고통과 죽음이 아니라, 인간이 아무 필요도 없이 생물에 대한 연민과 자비심을 짓뭉개고, 잔인한 폭력을 자신에게 행사한다는 사실이다."
"도살장이 존재하는 한 전쟁터도 존재할 것이다. 채식은 인도주의에 대한 엄격한 시험이다."
A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite. And to act so is immoral.
- On Civil Disobedience
What I think about vivisection is that if people admit that they have the right to take or endanger the life of living beings for the benefit of many, there will be no limit for their cruelty.
- letter to Mrs C.P.Farrell, July 1909
If a man aspires towards a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from injury to animals.
- The First Step
Pity is always the same feeling, it doesn't matter, whether you feel it for a human being or a fly.
- unkown origin
