Animal Rights Quotes - Page 15

• There's no reason to drink cow's milk at any time in your life. It was designed for calves, not humans, and we should all stop drinking it today.

  Frank Oski

  Drinking, Animal, Cows

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• Throughout the late '80s, me and a handful of friends just like you people here, we started to break windows, we started to slash tires, we started to rescue animals from factory farms and vivisection breeders, and we graduated to breaking into laboratories . As long as we emptied the labs of animals, they were still easily replaced. So that's when the ALF in this country, and my cell, started engaging in arson.

  Rod Coronado

  Country, Animal, Cells

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• ...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

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• If that means going onto their farms, releasing their animals and burning the place to the ground, that's morally justifiable, in our opinion...There were always innocent people who got hurt somewhere along the way but it was important that those who oppressed one group of people be stopped, and we don't see the animal liberation struggle being substantially different from these other struggles.... A sustained campaign against a particular industry or a particular organization has the potential to be quite effective.

  Jerry Vlasak

  Hurt, Struggle, Mean

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• On leather jackets: That's the next step. You have to take one step at a time. It was easier to start with fur.

  Dan Mathews

  Animal, Leather Jackets, Next Steps

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• Put a small child in a playpen with an apple and a bunny. If s/he eats the apple and plays with the bunny, s/he's normal;but if s/he eats the bunny and plays with the apple, I'll buy you a new car. Somewhere along the line we must have been TAUGHT to do the wrong thing.

  Maynard James Keenan

  Children, Animal, Play

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• Veganism gives us all the opportunity to say what we "stand for" in life- the ideal of healthy, humane living. Add decades to your life, with a clear conscience as a bonus.

  Donald Watson

  Life, Health, Animal

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• And so, with a boundless heart should one cherish all living beings.

  Gautama Buddha

  Heart, Animal, Cherish

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

  James Oliver Curwood

  Peace, Animal, Thrill

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• Morally speaking, we should be concerned for our whole environment.

  Dalai Lama

  Animal, Environment, Should

  Dalai Lama XIV (1995). “My Tibet”, p.53, Univ of California Press

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• I don't believe there is any justifiable reason for killing any animal unless perhaps if it's killing you! That would be negotiable.

  Chrissie Hynde

  Believe, Animal, Would Be

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• Tom Regan’s now classic Case for Animal Rights blends careful argument with intense moral concern. For two decades, where Regan has been taken seriously, animals have been better off and people have become better persons. This new edition is a welcome sign of this influence continuing.

  Holmes Rolston III

  Taken, Animal, Rights

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• The only creature on earth whose natural habitat is a zoo is the zookeeper.

  Robert Breault

  Zoos, Animal, Earth

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

  Paul Watson

  Animal, Environment, Harmony

  "Captain Paul Watson introduced by Persia White at Worldfest". Youtube video, www.youtube.com. June 30, 2006.

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• What I build upon I shall be told is a folly that wise men are not guilty of: I own it; but whilst it proceeds from a real passion inherent in our nature, it is sufficient to demonstrate that we are born with a repugnancy to the killing, and consequently the eating of animals; for it is impossible that a natural appetite should ever prompt us to act, or desire others to do, what we have an aversion to, be it as foolish as it will.

  Sylvester Graham

  Wise, Real, Passion

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• I think the rapidly growing tendency to regard animals as born for nothing except slavery to so-called humanity absolutely disgusting.

  Victor Gollancz

  Animal, Equality, Thinking

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• I think it indisputable that the distance between the intellectual faculties of different men is greater than that between the same faculties in some men and some other animals.

  Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke

  Distance, Animal, Men

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• I've got some incredible fans actually - so loyal and they make me birthday cards and Christmas cards. I got this package of poems and artwork based around Jennifer Bofinger, media spokeswoman for the animal rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, said despite the shabby treatment of deer just loves it!

  Debby Ryan

  Christmas, Animal, Rights

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• I'm an animal rights activist because I believe we won't have a planet if we continue to behave toward other species the way we do.

  James Cromwell

  Believe, Animal, Rights

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• When I did 'Babe' I wanted to talk about animal rights without going through some convoluted justifications about using animal products.

  James Cromwell

  Animal, Rights, Babe

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• Men may have given millions of dollars and fed rats and cats, as some do in India. They say that men can take care of themselves, but the poor animals cannot. . .

  Swami Vivekananda

  Cat, Animal, Men

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.467, Manonmani Publishers

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• . . . it is difficult for Europeans to appreciate the sentiment. Other nations kill animals by wholesale and kill one another; they exist in a sea of blood. A European said that the reason why in India animals were not killed was because it was supposed that they contained the spirits of ancestors. This reason was worthy of a savage nation who are not many steps from the brute.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Animal, Blood, Sea

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3670, Manonmani Publishers

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• My view is that consciousness, the seat of "personalness," is the ultimate reality, and is also scientifically impenetrable. In other words, there is no scientific test one can postulate that would definitively prove its existence in another entity. We assume that other biological human persons, at least those who are at least acting conscious, are indeed conscious. But this too is an assumption, and this shared human consensus breaks down when we go beyond human experience (e.g., the debate on animal consciousness, and by extension animal rights).

  Ray Kurzweil

  Animal, Reality, Rights

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• Why who makes much of a miracle? As to me I know nothing else but miracles, whether they be animals feeding in the fields, Or, birds, or the wonderfulness of insects in the air, Or the wonderfulness of the sundown, or of stars shining so quiet and bright, Or the exquisite delicate thin curve of the new moon in spring; These, with the rest, one and all, are to me, miracles.

  Walt Whitman

  Stars, Spring, Moon

  Walt Whitman, “Miracles”

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• Letting cats and dogs have litters is tantamount to shooting shelter animals in the head since it kills their chances of adoption. Please do the right thing and spay or neuter your animals.

  Steven Morrissey

  Dog, Cat, Animal

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