Animal-rights Quotes

If you want to test cosmetics, why do it on some poor animal who hasn't done anything? They should u...

Along with people in other creative professions, such as artists and musicians, many scientists expe...

Along with people in other creative professions, such as artists and musicians, many scientists expe...

People need to be educated so that they can make intelligent moral choices

In order to be a teacher you've got to be a student first

Until we consider animal life to be worthy of the consideration and reverence we bestow upon old boo...

We need another and a wiser and perhaps a more mystical concept of animals... They are not our breth...

He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a m...

To be a vegetarian is to disagree - to disagree with the course of things today... starvation, cruel...

It’s that I no longer know where I am. I seem to move around perfectly easily among people, to have ...

No consciousness that we would recognize as consciousness. Not awareness, as far as we can make out,...

I return one last time to the places of death all around us, the places of slaughter to which, in a ...

To be full of being is to live as a body-soul. One name for the experience of full being is joy.

There are people who have the capacity to imagine themselves as someone else, there are people who h...

Farmers today keep themselves in ignorance of the needs and true nature of pigs precisely because to...

One saw a bird dying, shot by a man. It was flying with rhythmic beat and beautifully, with such fre...

Americans care more about the rights of animals than about what happens to us!

I am very proud of the fact that 20 years [sic] on people tell me they became a vegetarian as a resu...

People care about animals. I believe that. They just don’t want to know or to pay. A fourth of all c...

If we are not given the option to live without violence, we are given the choice to center our meals...

It shouldn't be the consumer's responsibility to figure out what's cruel and what's kind, what's env...

Before child labor laws, there were businesses that treated their ten-year-old employees well. socie...

The persistence of the story of animal consent into the contemporary era tells of a human appreciati...

The choice-obsessed modern West is probably more accommodating to individuals who choose to eat diff...

A simple trick from the backyard astronomer: if you are having trouble seeing something, look slight...

Just how common do such savageries have to be for a decent person to be unable to overlook them? If ...

I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will loo...

When you start with a necessary evil, and then over time the necessity passes away, what's left?

The most striking quality that humans and animals have in common is the capacity to experience suffe...

This, for many people, is what's most offensive about hunting—to some, disgusting: that it encourage...

This for many people is what is most offensive about hunting—to some, disgusting: that it encourages...

Humanity's true moral test, its fundamental test…consists of its attitude towards those who are at i...

Dogs do not have many advantages over people, but one of them is extremely important: euthanasia is ...

There is no particular merit in being nice to one's fellow man... We can never establish with certai...

If you want to know where you would have stood on slavery before the Civil War, don’t look at where ...

Intelligence is the ability of a species to live in harmony with its environment.

The prescription of the equality of human beings is not a description of an alleged actual equality ...

To protest about bullfighting in Spain, the eating of dogs in South Korea, or the slaughter of baby ...

We have to speak up on behalf of those who cannot speak for themselves.

To give preference to the life of a being simply because that being is a member of our species would...

We think of dogs as being more like people than pigs; but pigs are highly intelligent animals and if...

I think using animals for food is an ethical thing to do, but we've got to do it right. We've got to...

To be 'for animals' is not to be 'against humanity.' To require others to treat animals justly, as t...

We must fight against the spirit of unconscious cruelty with which we treat the animals. Animals suf...

Very little of the great cruelty shown by men can really be attributed to cruel instinct. Most of it...

The assumption that animals are without rights and the illusion that our treatment of them has no mo...

The indifference, callousness, and contempt that so many people exhibit toward animals is evil first...

If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in...

Is it possible that future generations will regard our present agribuisness and eating practices in ...

I waited for him to come out. He didn't. I considered going in after him, but knew the fact that I h...