Ingrid Newkirk Quotes About Animal Rights

Quotes about: Animal Rights

• Eating meat is primitive, barbaric, and arrogant.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Eating Meat, Arrogant, Animal Rights

  "Washington City Paper" Newspaper, December 20, 1985.

• A rat is a pig is a dog is a boy. They're all animals.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Dog, Animal, Boys

  Washingtonian magazine, August 01, 1986.

• When it comes to having a central nervous system, and the ability to feel pain, hunger, and thirst, a rat is a pig is a dog is a boy.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Dog, Pain, Animal

  "Washingtonian" Magazine, August 1, 1986.

• Pet ownership is an absolutely abysmal situation brought about by human manipulation.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Animal, Pet, Manipulation

  "Harper's Magazine", August 1, 1988.

• Six million Jews died in concentration camps, but six billion broiler chickens will die this year in slaughter houses.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Years, House, Six

  "Has PETA Gone Too Far With Billboard Featuring Mayor Giuliani?". "Crossfire" with Bill Press and Mary Matalin, www.cnn.com. August 29, 2000.

• Our nonviolent tactics are not as effective. We ask nicely for years and get nothing. Someone makes a threat, and it works.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Animal, Years, Tactics

  "U.S. News & World Report" Magazine, April 8, 2002.

• Even if animal tests produced a cure for AIDS, we'd be against it.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Animal, Tests, Aids

• I am not a morose person, but I would rather not be here. I don't have any reverence for life, only for the entities themselves. I would rather see a blank space where I am. This will sound like fruitcake stuff again but at least I wouldn't be harming anything.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Space, Fruitcake, Stuff

  "The Washington Post", November 13, 1983.

• Probably everything we do is a publicity stunt ... we are not here to gather members, to please, to placate, to make friends. We're here to hold the radical line.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Animal, Lines, Publicity

  "USA Today" Newspaper, September 3, 1991.

• ...no movement for social change has ever succeeded without 'the militarism component'....Thinkers may prepare revolutions, but bandits must carry them out

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Animal, May, Revolution

• One day, we would like an end to pet shops and the breeding of animals.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Animal, Pet, Ends

  "The Chicago Daily Herald" Newspaper, March 1, 1990.

• We’re looking for good lawsuits that will establish the interests of animals as a legitimate area of concern in law.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Animal, Law, Peta

• Medical research is "immoral even it it's essential."

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Animal, Essentials, Research

• I find that as I get older I seem to become more of a Luddite... And hearing animal experimenters describe me as a Luddite--which used to think I was not. And now I think Ned Lud had the right idea and we should have stopped all the machinery way back when, and learned to live simple lives.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Animal, Simple, Thinking

• Even painless research is fascism, supremacism...

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Animal, Research, Peta

  "Washingtonian" Magazine, August 1986.

• Winners don't eat wieners.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Animal, Animal Rights, Winner

• Humans have grown like a cancer. We're the biggest blight on the face of the earth.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Cancer, Earth, Faces

  Washingtonian magazine, February 1, 1990.

• Perhaps the mere idea of receiving a nasty missive will allow animal researchers to empathize with their victims for the first time in their lousy careers. I find it small wonder that the laboratories aren't all burning to the ground. If I had more guts, I'd light a match.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Animal, Light, Careers

  "The Chronicle of Higher Education" Newspaper, November 12. 1999.

• We are complete press sluts.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Animal, Animal Rights, Presses

  "The New Yorker" Magazine, April 14, 2003.

• Would I rather the research lab that tests animals is reduced to a bunch of cinders? Yes.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Animal, Research, Labs

  "New York Daily News" Newspaper, December 7, 1997.

• A burning building doesnt help melt peoples hearts, but times change and tactics, Im sure, have to change with them. If you choose to carry out ALF-style actions, I ask you to please not say more than you need to, to think carefully who you trust, to learn all you can about how to behave if arrested, and so to try to live to fight another day.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Heart, Fighting, Thinking

• Businesses are terrified. They have no idea what I'm going to do next.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Animal, Ideas, Next

• It is dangerous to engage in even the most innocuous-seeming discourse with the FBI/ Homeland Security/ a local detective.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Animal, Detectives, Dangerous

• If my father had a heart attack it would give me no solace at all to know his treatment was first tried on a dog.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Dog, Father, Heart

  "Animal-Research Labs Increasingly Besieged" by Michael Specter, www.washingtonpost.com. May 30, 1989.

• The best bet for the horses would be to stop betting on the Derby and other horse races, and to stop breeding, racing and killing thoroughbreds altogether

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Horse, Animal, Race

  "Thoroughbreds: From Elite to Meat" by Ingrid Newkirk, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 5, 2011.

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