Animal Rights Quotes - Page 12

• Because the heart beats under a covering of hair, of fur, feathers, or wings, it is, for that reason, to be of no account?

  Jean Paul

  Heart, Rapper, Animal

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• It may be suggested by some books that it is not a sin to kill an animal, but it is written in our own hearts - more clearly than in any book - that we should take pity on animals in the same way as we do on humans.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Book, Heart, Animal

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

  Diane Ackerman

  Animal, Species

  Diane Ackerman (2011). “The Rarest of the Rare: Vanishing Animals, Timeless Worlds”, p.19, Vintage

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• Being kind to animals is not enough. Avoiding cruelty is not enough. Housing animals in more comfortable, larger cages is not enough. Whether we exploit animals to eat, to wear, to entertain us, or to learn, the truth of animal rights requires empty cages, not larger cages.

  Tom Regan

  Learning, Animal, Rights

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• To argue that we humans are capable of complex multifarious thought and feeling, whereas the sheep's perception is probably limited by lowly sheepish perceptions, is no more to the point than if I were to slaughter and eat you on the grounds that I am a sophisticated personality able to enjoy Mozart, formal logic and cannibalism, whereas your imaginative world seems confined to True Romances and tinned spaghetti.

  Brigid Brophy

  Animal, Sheep, Personality

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• I care passionately about equal rights [and] animal rights.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Animal, Rights, Care

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• I hear, Western people say, "The world was created for us." If tigers could write books, they would say, man was created for them and that man is a most sinful animal, because he does not allow him (the tiger) to catch him easily. The worm that crawls under your feet today is a God to be.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Book, Writing, Animal

  Swami Vivekananda (1964). “Complete Works”

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• Surely there will be some nonhuman animals whose lives, by any standards, are more valuable than the lives of some humans.

  Peter Singer

  Animal, Standards, Valuable

  Peter Singer (1975). “Animal liberation: a new ethics for our treatment of animals”

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• Christianity is our foe. If animal rights is to succeed, we must destroy the Judeo-Christian religious tradition.

  Peter Singer

  Christian, Religious, Animal

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• In order to satisfy one human stomach, so many lives are taken away. We must promote vegetarianism. It is extremely important.

  Dalai Lama

  Life, Taken, Vegetarianism

  His Holiness the Dalai Lama (2000). “The Transformed Mind: Reflections on Truth, Love and Happiness”, p.57, Penguin UK

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• When people say that animal rescuers are crazy, what they really mean is that animal rescuers share a number of fundamental beliefs that makes them easy to marginalize. Among those is the belief that Rene Descartes was a jackass.

  Steven Kotler

  Crazy, Mean, Animal

  Steven Kotler (2011). “A Small Furry Hope: Dog Rescue and the Meaning of Life”, p.174, A&C Black

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• I dream of a vegan world - that's where I want everything to go.

  Gene Baur

  Dream, World, Want

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• Shame on such a morality that is worthy of pariahs, and that fails to recognize the eternal essence that exists in every living thing, and shines forth with inscrutable significance from all eyes that see the sun!

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Life, Eye, Equality

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• 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.

  Mary Tyler Moore

  Choices, Vegetarian, Killing

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• I believe in animal rights, human rights, land rights, water rights, air rights.

  Rod Coronado

  Believe, Animal, Rights

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

  Jerry Vlasak

  Animal, Whatever It Takes, Acceptable

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• Humanity is the cancer of nature.

  David Foreman

  Cancer, Humanity

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• To be 'for animals' is not to be 'against humanity.' To require others to treat animals justly, as their rights require, is not to ask for anything more nor less in their case than in the case of any human to whom just treatment is due. The animal rights movement is a part of, not opposed to, the human rights movement. Attempts to dismiss it as anti human are mere rhetoric.

  Tom Regan

  Animal, Rights, Humanity

  Tom Regan (2004). “The Case for Animal Rights”, p.53, Univ of California Press

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• I don’t have any doubt in my mind that there will come a time when we will see violence against animal rights abusers.

  Jerry Vlasak

  Animal, Rights, Doubt

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• The day should come when all of the forms of life... will stand before the court - the pileated woodpecker as well as the coyote and bear, the lemmings as well as the trout in the streams.

  William O. Douglas

  Animal, Lemmings, Woodpeckers

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• As soon as we lose the moral basis, we cease to be religious. There is no such thing as religion over-riding morality. Man, for instance, cannot be untruthful, cruel or incontinent and claim to have God on his side.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Religious, Men, Religion

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.72, A&C Black

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• But if by some miracle and all our struggle, the earth is spared, only justice to every living being will save humankind.

  Alice Walker

  Struggle, Animal, Justice

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• I want to know how these very people who are against war because of loss of life can possibly be the same people who are for abortion? They are the same people who are for animal rights, but they are not for the rights of the unborn.

  Jim Gibbons

  War, Loss, Animal

  "Gibbons speech was plagiarized" by Dave Woodson, elkodaily.com. March 2, 2005.

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• Animal abusers are not the only culprits - the consumers are the biggest abusers! As long as buyers, users, attendees at animal performances, etc., keep using, abusers keep abusing!!!

  Adela Popescu

  Animal, Long, Etc

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• To us it seems incredible that the Greek philosophers should have scanned so deeply into right and wrong and yet never noticed the immorality of slavery. Perhaps 3000 years from now it will seem equally incredible that we do not notice the immorality of our own oppression of animals.

  Brigid Brophy

  Equality, Animal, Should Have

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