Best 272 quotes in «animal rights quotes» category

A human being has been given an intellect to make choices, and we know there are other food sources that do not require the killing of a creature that would protest being killed.

Animals for the most part just need to be left alone.

Cruelty must be whitewashed by a moral excuse, and pretense of reluctance.

He who sees cruelty and does nothing about it is himself cruel.

Awareness is bad for the meat business. Conscience is bad for the meat business. Sensitivity to life is bad for the meat business. DENIAL, however, the meat business finds indispensable.

Eating meat is primitive, barbaric, and arrogant.

Getting arrested is fun.

How deeply seated in the human heart is the liking for gardens and gardening.

Humanity is the cancer of nature.

If a kid ever realized what was involved in factory farming, they would never touch meat again.

In their behavior toward creatures, all men are Nazis. Human beings see oppression vividly when they're the victims. Otherwise they victimize blindly and without a thought.

I think everything in my life has led to my animal welfare work.

It's animal by animal that you save a species.

It seems to me of great importance to teach children respect for life.

Meat consumption is just as dangerous to public health as tobacco use... It's time we looked into holding the meat producers and fast-food outlets legally accountable.

My body is not a tomb for animals.

If you had to hurt somebody or intimidate them or kill them, it would be morally justifiable.

I vowed never again to experiment with such sensitive creatures.

The definition of obscenity on the newsstands should be extended to many hunting magazines.

The Bible's emphasis is on the good treatment of animals, and not just the forbidding of cruel treatment.

This is a revolution, damn it! We're going to have to offend somebody!

The greatest thrill is not to kill- but to let live.

To become vegetarian is to step into the stream which leads to nirvana.

When people go within and connect with themselves, they realize they are connected to the universe and they are connected to all living things.

Whatever it takes to stop someone from abusing animals is certainly morally acceptable

This, for many people, is what's most offensive about hunting—to some, disgusting: that it encourages, or allows, us not only to kill but to take a certain pleasure in killing

Violence begins with the fork.

Acknowledging and protecting nonhuman individuals places limits on human power, and will put an end to a host of ill-gotten gains – just as emancipation curtailed white power and put an end to the ill-gotten gains of Caucasian-Americans. Consequently, animal activists who push for change are often met with derision and indifference by those who wish to continue their accustomed diet, those who do not want to rethink their leather shoes, toiletries, or treasured forms of entertainment. Feminists and civil rights protesters who asked others to change for the sake of justice – to give up their ill-gotten gains – were and are met with similar insults and raucous rejections.

We should stop bringing more domestic animals into existence.

You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity.

A big reason for optimism about the end of animal farming is that it doesn't have to be the end of meat.

All children should be encouraged to love and respect animals.. Not turn a blind eye to their suffering and stab forks into their dead bodies..

After you have witnessed the reality, you can no longer look at a piece of steak, and simply think "yum".

A human body in no way resembles those that were born for ravenousness; it hath no hawk’s bill, no sharp talon, no roughness of teeth, no such strength of stomach or heat of digestion, as can be sufficient to convert or alter such heavy and fleshy fare. But if you will contend that you were born to an inclination to such food as you have now a mind to eat, do you then yourself kill what you would eat. But do it yourself, without the help of a chopping-knife, mallet or axe, as wolves, bears, and lions do, who kill and eat at once. Rend an ox with thy teeth, worry a hog with thy mouth, tear a lamb or a hare in pieces, and fall on and eat it alive as they do. But if thou had rather stay until what thou eat is to become dead, and if thou art loath to force a soul out of its body, why then dost thou against nature eat an animate thing? There is nobody that is willing to eat even a lifeless and a dead thing even as it is; so they boil it, and roast it, and alter it by fire and medicines, as it were, changing and quenching the slaughtered gore with thousands of sweet sauces, that the palate being thereby deceived may admit of such uncouth fare.

Animals suffer as much as we do. The spirit of unconscious cruelty with which we treat the animals should be fought against. We won’t have the audacity and the stony heart to impose such sufferings on them if only we were humane and understand what true humanity entails. And appallingly, humanity may not find the desired peace until we extend our circle of compassion to all living things.” -Shenita Etwaroo

Along with people in other creative professions, such as artists and musicians, many scientists experience this transcendence. I do so every day. For one, it's impossible to look an ape in the eye and not see oneself. There are other animals with frontally oriented eyes, but none that give you the shock of recognitions of the ape's. Looking back at you is not so much an animal but a personality as solid and willful as yourself.

A man is only noble when he has pity on all living creatures.” -Shenita Etwaroo

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

Animal and human rights are not ‘on the fence’ issues. You’re either on the right side or the wrong side of the fence.” -Shenita Etwaroo

Animal rights are not a gift we give to animals. They are a birthright we have taken from them.

Animals are forever true to their God-given natures, communicating well enough with canny precision in languages we are perhaps too arrogant to understand.

Anthropomorphism originally meant the attribution of human characteristics to God. It is curious that the word is now used almost exclusively to ascribe human characteristics--such as fidelity or altruism or pride, or emotions such as love, embarrassment, or sadness--to the nonhuman animal. One is guilty of anthropomorphism, though it is no longer a sacrilegious word. It is a derogatory, dismissive one that connotes a sort of rampant sentimentality. It’s just another word in the arsenal of the many words used to attack the animal rights movement.

Winners don't eat wieners.

Along with people in other creative professions, such as artists and musicians, many scientists experience this transcendence. I do so every day. For one, it's impossible to look an ape in the eye and not see oneself. There are other animals with frontally oriented eyes, but none that give you the shock of recognition of the ape's. Looking back at you is not so much an animal but a personality as solid and willful as yourself.

Although the body of each living creature may be different, the soul remains the same.” -Shenita Etwaroo

Animal testing, including vivisection, only tests the ability of the human being to be inhuman.” -Shenita Etwaroo

Animal trafficking brings $20 billion, yes, billion with a b, into the United States every year, and that’s why you don’t see tighter regulations, higher fines, heftier punishments. As they say, follow the money. Shenita Etwaroo

Animal welfarism is a blatant lie. Anyone who truly cares for the welfare of another, would never dream of exploiting them. For just as when slavery is deeply set into the psyche of a nation, those crying for slave welfare and not abolitionism, argue in favour of slavery and exploitation, and thus push eventual abolitionism further into the future.

Animal rights and environmentalism walk hand in hand. We simply cannot take care of one without the other. If we try to do that, we fail. Protect the animals, protect our planet.” -Shenita Etwaroo

Animal welfare - yes. Animal rights - don't make me laugh. I'm not an animals rights activist. I certainly do not love animals. In fact, I secretly mistrust all four-legged / furry / two-winged / feathered / shelled ar scaly brothers and sisters. If I were them, I would by now be plotting ultimate revenge on a scale previously unknown to man. ... I stick to a vegan diet only for reasons of self-preservertion. Call it insurance. When the time of the great animal uprising comes, I may have a small chance of escaping ...