Animal Rights Quotes - Page 17

• I can assure you no whales are going to be killed today.

  Paul Watson

  Animal, Whales, Today

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• This isn't a hunt that's going to kill just four or five gray whales. The repercussions of this will have an effect on tens of thousands of whales that will be killed by the Japanese and Norwegians.

  Paul Watson

  Animal, Whales, Four

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• Anyone who tries to improve the lives of animals invariably comes in for criticism from those who believe such efforts are misplaced in a world of suffering humanity.

  Jane Goodall

  Believe, Animal, Effort

  "Reason for Hope: a Spiritual Journey". Book by Jane Goodall, Phillip L. Berman, 2000.

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• Awareness is bad for the meat business. Conscience is bad for the meat business. Sensitivity to life is bad for the meat business. DENIAL, however, the meat business finds indispensable.

  John Robbins

  Vegetarianism, Meat, Denial

  John Robbins (2011). “Diet for a New America: How Your Food Choices Affect Your Health, Happiness, and the Future of Life on Earth”, p.92, H J Kramer

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• 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.

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• If you want to know where you would have stood on slavery before the Civil War, don’t look at where you stand on slavery today. Look at where you stand on animal rights.

  Paul Watson

  War, Animal, Views

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• As for myself, I do not believe in loggers, I believe in trees. I do not believe in fishermen, I believe in fish. I do not believe in miners, I believe in the rocks beneath my feet. I do not believe in pie in the sky spirituality, I believe in rainbows, rivers, mountains, and moss. I do not believe in environmentalists, I believe in the environment. I am a proud traitor to my species in alliance with my mother the Earth in opposition to those who would destroy her, those parasites who believe the Earth is here to serve human interests.

  Paul Watson

  Mother, Believe, Sky

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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

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• 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

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• To give a child animal products is a form of child abuse.

  Neal Barnard

  Children, Animal, Giving

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• I am an avid supporter of PETA and all animals as well as animal rights programs.

  Corey Feldman

  Animal, Avid, Rights

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• If you could see or feel the suffering you wouldn't think twice. Give back life. Don't eat meat.

  Kim Basinger

  Thinking, Vegetarianism, Giving

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• Back in 1980, whale watching surpassed whaling as an industry. Now it's worth about four times as much. Whale watching provides far, far more jobs to people than whaling ever did. Whale watching has become an ally in the fight to end whaling.

  Paul Watson

  Jobs, Fighting, Animal

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• North American cats eat more fish than all the world's seals put together, yet we lay the blame on the seals for the declining fish stocks.

  Paul Watson

  Cat, Animal, Together

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• Like other Americans, I've reconciled myself to the idea that an animal's life has been sacrificed to bring me a meal of pork or chicken. However, industrial meat production - which subjects animals to a life of torture - has escalated the karmic costs beyond reconciliation.

  Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

  Animal, Ideas, Meat

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• Animals... are there merely as a means to an end. That end is man.

  Immanuel Kant

  Mean, Animal, Men

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• One of the ill effects of cruelty is that it makes the bystanders cruel.

  Sir Fowell Buxton, 1st Baronet

  Animal, Bystanders, Cruelty

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• This is so like the way the Americans deliberately erroneously refer to Afghans and Iraqis as terrorists when they fight back killing American soldiers to protect their young from the illegal American invasion.

  Bob Barker

  Fighting, Animal, Soldier

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• When people go within and connect with themselves, they realize they are connected to the universe and they are connected to all living things.

  Armand DiMele

  Work, People, Spirituality

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• If you had to hurt somebody or intimidate them or kill them, it would be morally justifiable.

  Jerry Vlasak

  Hurt, Would Be, Intimidating

  "Animal rights protesters torment scientists" By Marcus Wohlsen, www.foxnews.com. July 7, 2008.

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• If someone is killing, on a regular basis, thousands of animals, and if that person can only be stopped in one way by the use of violence, then it is certainly a morally justifiable solution.

  Jerry Vlasak

  Animal, Use, Way

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• I cannot fish without falling a little in self-respect...always when I have done I feel it would have been better if I had not fished.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Fall, Self, Littles

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