Arthur Schopenhauer — "The world is a collection of unhappy beings."

"The assumption that animals are without rights and the illusion that our treatment of them has no moral significance is a positively outrageous example of Western crudity and barbarity. Universal comp…"

"The value of a man is measured by the extent to which he is willing to submit to the yoke of suffering."

"The more you leave a man to his own will, the more he will feel his own weakness."

"The only truly happy beings are those who have never been born."

"She pays the debt of life not by what she does but by what she suffers—by the pains of child-bearing, care for the child, and by subjection to man, to whom she should be a patient and cheerful compani…"