Animal Rights Quotes - Page 16

• I do not believe that it could never be justifiable to experiment on a brain-damaged human.

  Peter Singer

  Believe, Animal, Brain

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• The Animals of the planet are in desperate peril and they are fully aware of this. No less than human beings are doing in all parts of the world, they are seeking sanctuary.

  Alice Walker

  Animal, World, Sanctuary

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• We should take good care of the domestic animals we have brought into existence until they die. We should stop bringing more domestic animals into existence.

  Gary L. Francione

  Animal, Care, Should

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

  Wayne Pacelle

  Animal, Needs, Left Alone

  "Wayne Pacelle works for the winged, finned and furry" by Carla Hall, www.latimes.com. July 19, 2008.

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• I certainly believe that we have a moral obligation to care for the dogs, cats, and other nonhumans whose existence we have caused or facilitated as part of the institution of 'pet' ownership. But I maintain that we ought to abolish the institution and stop causing or facilitating the existence of more 'companion' animals.

  Gary L. Francione

  Dog, Believe, Cat

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• Tolerance of Cruelty in any form is a degraded state of mind and soul. When we freely allow the massacre and prolonged torture of defenseless creatures, it increases our receptivity to human cruelty and war and steals our humanity, peace and soul. Very little speeds and greases your way to Hell, like animal cruelty.

  Russell Boyd

  War, Animal, Soul

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• If you truly care about animal rights and have a passion for it, take some action. Whether it's hands-on or political, just go for it. No matter what path you choose in life or what you decide to do, you can use your voice to educate other people and help the cause.

  Mac Danzig

  Passion, Animal, Rights

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• They [Greenpeace] forgot their original purpose and turned into a big, rich bureaucracy, more interested in fund-raising than in saving lives, so I got fed up and quit... they're a bunch of wimps.

  Paul Watson

  Animal, Wimps, Purpose

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• Pigs eat more tuna than all the planet's sharks combined.

  Paul Watson

  Animal, Pigs, Sharks

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• We don't give a damn what you or anybody else on this planet thinks. We didn't sink those ships for you. We did it for the whales.

  Paul Watson

  Animal, Thinking, Whales

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• Atlantic puffins starve to death so that Danish chickens can feast on their fish.

  Paul Watson

  Animal, Puffins, Chickens

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• 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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• People know what happened in California, and they know it can happen again and again. They know that no group has passed more ballot measures than we have. They know we have a focused strategy. They know we have a budget of $150 million a year. And they know we're ready for a fight.

  Wayne Pacelle

  Fighting, Animal, Years

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• If I had my personal view, perhaps that might take hold. In fact, I don't want to see another dog or cat born.

  Wayne Pacelle

  Dog, Cat, Animal

  Excerpt from 'Bloodties: Nature, Culture, and the Hunt,' by Ted Kerasote, www.humanewatch.org. 1994.

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• Animals are being exploited in such an unbelievable way; it's not acceptable. PETA is trying to get your attention, and they're successful at it. ... If you talk to people who grew up on a farm, they'll tell you that they had an experience where they were taking care of a cow, and one day their parents took it away and killed it. It's a torturous experience for them, and that's when they became hard. People are taught to be grown-up or whatever, and that's dumb. That bond they had with that cow or chicken was real.

  Alicia Silverstone

  Real, Successful, Animal

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• We don't live the lives of Eskimos. We don't need to kill animals for fashion.

  Charlize Theron

  Fashion, Animal, Needs

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• It is totally unconscionable to subject defenseless animals to mutilation and death, just so a company can be the first to market a new shade of nail polish or a new, improved laundry detergent. It's cruel, it's brutal, it's inhumane, and most people don't want it.

  Abigail Van Buren

  Animal, People, Abuse

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• I became very critical of zoos and circuses and keeping animals in captivity. I wish it was against the law.

  Christopher Walken

  Zoos, Animal, Law

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• I don't approve of the use of animals for any purpose that involves touching them - caging them.

  Neal Barnard

  Animal, Touching, Purpose

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• What could be the basis of our having more inherent value than animals? Their lack of reason, or autonomy, or intellect? Only if we are willing to make the same judgment in the case of humans who are similarly deficient.

  Tom Regan

  Animal, Judgment, Reason

  Carl Cohen, Tom Regan (2001). “The Animal Rights Debate”, p.216, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Torturing a human being is almost always wrong, but it is not absolutely wrong.

  Peter Singer

  Animal, Peta, Always Wrong

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

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• Man is the most dangerous, destructive, selfish, and unethical animal on earth.

  Michael Fox

  Selfish, Animal, Men

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• If they [animals] were really to get the equal consideration that I believe they should, we wouldn't have commercial animal production in this country.

  Peter Singer

  Country, Believe, Animal

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• Anthropocentrism, regarding human kind as the very center and pinnacle of existence, is a disease of arrested development.

  Michael Fox

  Animal, Development, Disease

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• Unlike aboriginal hunters, commercial seal hunters leave the carcasses on the ice to rot.

  Paul Watson

  Animal, Ice, Hunters

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