Animal Rights Quotes - Page 13

• I do not oppose violence simply because it is counterproductive. I oppose it because it betrays animal rights philosophy. Those who resort to such tactics really have not understood that animal rights is about the extension of moral concern to all sentient beings--humans obviously included.

  Andrew Linzey

  Philosophy, Animal, Rights

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• Veganism is about nonviolence. It is about not engaging in harm to other sentient beings; to oneself; and to the environment upon which all beings depend for life. In my view, the animal rights movement is, at its core, a movement about ending violence to all sentient beings. It is a movement that seeks fundamental justice for all. It is an emerging peace movement that does not stop at the arbitrary line that separates humans from nonhumans.

  Gary L. Francione

  Peace, Animal, Rights

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• There is no difference between sitting around the pit watching dogs fight and sitting around a summer barbecue roasting the corpses of tortured animals or enjoying the dairy or eggs from tortured animals.

  Gary L. Francione

  Summer, Dog, Fighting

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• If anyone wants to save the planet, all they have to do is just stop eating meat.

  Paul McCartney

  Animal, Meat, Want

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The fact of the matter is that today, stuff-selling mega-corporations have a huge influence on our daily lives. And because of the competitive nature of our global economy, these corporations are generally only concerned with one thing - the bottom line. That is, maximising profit, regardless of the social or environmental costs.

  David Suzuki

  Environmental, Cost, Lines

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• To the truly ethical man, all of life is sacred, including forms of life that from the human point of view may seem lower than ours.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Animal, Men, Views

  Albert Schweitzer (1966). “The Teaching of Reverence for Life”

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• Stand still, close your eyes and listen; in the silence you can hear the cries of pain and low moans of anguish of animals waiting to die... do everything you can even if today it is just one small thing. There are no excuses for inaction, despair, egotism, or petulance that matter to the animals.

  Ashley Montagu

  Pain, Eye, Animal

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• Please remember the hundreds of tiny empty stomachs in our communities. Winter is a tough time for birds and other small creatures as food can become buried beneath snow or frozen ground. Scatter seeds in your yard, nearby parks.

  Alex Pacheco

  Winter, Animal, Snow

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• The current treatment of animals in the livestock trade definitely renders the consumption of meat as halachically unacceptable as the product of illegitimate means. ... As it is halachically prohibited to harm oneself and as healthy, nutritious vegetarian alternatives are easily available, meat consumption has become halachically unjustifiable.

  David Rosen

  Mean, Animal, Meat Consumption

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• He [man] abuses equally other animals and his own species, the rest of whom live in famine, languish in misery, and work only to satisfy the immoderate appetite and the still more insatiable vanity of this human being who, destroying others by want, destroys himself by excess.

  Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

  Animal, Men, Vanity

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• We cannot talk simultaneously about animal rights and the 'humane' slaughter of animals.

  Gary L. Francione

  Animal, Rights, Slaughter

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• A society remotely worth its salt eventually has to come to grips with the barbarism practiced upon helpless creatures in the name of scientific experimentation, tastier/tenderer meat, or more and larger eggs!

  William Kunstler

  Animal, Names, Eggs

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• It's not that humans and non-humans are identical... but the lack of understanding that led to the slave trade is the same lack of understanding many people have about animals today. When slaves were brought over from Africa, many people believed they were not humans, that they didn't have feelings. Many people believe that primates and other animals don't have feelings, too, but they do.

  Jane Goodall

  Believe, Animal, People

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• An old philosopher said to Monsieur Coignard, a Reverend Father: 'You are a pig!' To which Abad Coignard answered: 'You flatter me, sir. But unfortunately, I'm only a man.'

  Anatole France

  Father, Animal, Men

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• ... man was not born a carnivorous animal, but born to live on the fruits and herbs that the earth grows. I know we must all err. I would give up milk if I could, but I cannot. I have made that experiment times without number. I could not, after a serious illness, regain my strength, unless I went back to milk. That has been the tragedy of my life. But the basis of my vegetarianism is not physical, but moral. If anybody said that I should die if I did not take beef tea or mutton, even on medical advice, I would prefer death. That is the basis of my vegetarianism.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Giving Up, Animal, Men

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

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• Humans are the one species the world could do very well without.

  George Schaller

  Animal, World, Wells

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• All things of creation are children of the Father and thus brothers of man. ... God wants us to help animals, if they need help. Every creature in distress has the same right to be protected.

  Francis of Assisi

  Brother, Children, Father

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• James, the brother of the Lord ... was holy from his mother's womb; and he drank no wine nor strong drink, nor did he eat meat.

  Hegesippus

  Mother, Strong, Brother

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• Animal Rights is now the greatest Social Justice issue since the abolition of slavery.

  Philip Wollen

  Animal, Rights, Abolition Of Slavery

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

  Abraham Lincoln

  Animal, Doe, Cruelty

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• He who is not actively kind is cruel!

  John Ruskin

  Animal, Kind

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• The reduction of the earth to an object simply for human's use/ possession is unthinkable in most traditional cultures... the earth belongs to itself and to all the component members of the community.

  Thomas Berry

  Animal, Community, Culture

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• I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contain'd, I stand and look at them long and long.

  Walt Whitman

  Animal, Thinking, People

  Walt Whitman (2013). “Walt Whitman's Song of Myself: A Sourcebook and Critical Edition”, p.169, Routledge

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• We are all victims of the violence that animals suffer... their liberation is also our liberation.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Animal, Suffering, Violence

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• Something I have "authority" on is animal rights. If I were not already so deep into the path I've taken, deep in the woods, I would probably work with animal rights activism because that's really where my heart lies. I think our relationships with animals are sacred and horrific. I've been a vegetarian since I was sixteen. What God said we are allowed to eat anything that does not have thumbs?

  Lucie Brock-Broido

  Lying, Taken, Heart

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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