Animal Rights Quotes - Page 2

• universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Friendship, Compassion, Animal

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.8, Publishdrive

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• Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals. And in this respect mankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it.

  Milan Kundera

  Love, Peace, Nature

  "The Unbearable Lightness of Being". Book by Milan Kundera, 1984.

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• If a man aspires towards a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from injury to animals.

  Albert Einstein

  Zoos, Cat, Animal

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  Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Life, Beauty

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.15, St. Martin's Press

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• A true sportsman is a hunter lost in the woods and out of ammo.

  Robert Breault

  Animal, Hunters, Woods

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• I think violence is part of the struggle against oppression. If something bad happens to these people [animal researchers], it will discourage others. It is inevitable that violence will be used in the struggle and that it will be effective.

  Jerry Vlasak

  Struggle, Animal, Thinking

  "Kill scientists, says animal rights chief" by Jamie Doward, www.theguardian.com. July 25, 2004.

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• Hurt no living thing: Ladybird, nor butterfly, Nor moth with dusty wing.

  Christina Rossetti

  Hurt, Butterfly, Animal

  Christina Rossetti (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Christina Rossetti (Illustrated)”, p.379, Delphi Classics

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• The prescription of the equality of human beings is not a description of an alleged actual equality among humans: it is a prescription of how we should treat human beings.

  Peter Singer

  Animal, Should, Treats

  Peter Singer (1986). “Applied Ethics”, p.220, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Every time a police agency pepper-sprays or uses pain-compliance holds against our people, their cars should burn.

  Rod Coronado

  Pain, Animal, Agency

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• If an 'animal abuser' were killed in a research lab firebombing, I would unequivocally support that, too.

  Gary Yourofsky

  Animal, Support, Research

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• Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Animal, Rights, Vegetarian Diet

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• We should remember in our dealings with animals that they are a sacred trust to us from our Heavenly Father. They are dumb and cannot speak for themselves.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Father, Animal, Vegetarianism

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (1867). “Queer Little People”, p.150

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• Animals give me more pleasure through the viewfinder of a camera than they ever did in the crosshairs of a gunsight. And after I've finished "shooting," my unharmed victims are still around for others to enjoy. I have developed a deep respect for animals. I consider them fellow living creatures with certain rights that should not be violated any more than those of humans.

  James Stewart

  Animal, Hunting, Rights

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• Cruelty to dumb animals is one of the distinguishing vices of low and base minds. Wherever it is found, it is a certain mark of ignorance and meanness; a mark which all the external advantages of wealth, splendour, and nobility, cannot obliterate. It is consistent neither with learning nor true civility.

  William Jones

  Ignorance, Animal, Dumb

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• At the moment our human world is based on the suffering and destruction of millions of non-humans. To perceive this and to do something to change it in personal and public ways is to undergo a change of perception akin to a religious conversion. Nothing can ever be seen in quite the same way again because once you have admitted the terror and pain of other species you will, unless you resist conversion, be always aware of the endless permutations of suffering that support our society.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Religious, Pain, Support

  Attributed to Arthur Conan Doyle in "The Face on Your Plate: The Truth About Food" by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, 2009.

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• I hold flesh-food to be unsuited to our species. We err in copying the lower animal world if we are superior to it.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Animal, Vegetarianism, Copying

  Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.151, Rajpal & Sons

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• People must have renounced, it seems to me, all natural intelligence to dare to advance that animals are but animated machines.... It appears to me, besides, that such people can never have observed with attention the character of animals, not to have distinguished among them the different voices of need, of suffering, of joy, of pain, of love, of anger, and of all their affections. It would be very strange that they should express so well what they could not feel.

  Voltaire

  Pain, Philosophical, Character

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• I don't understand why asking people to eat a well-balanced vegetarian diet is considered drastic, while it is medically conservative to cut people open and put them on cholesterol lowering drugs for the rest of their lives.

  Dean Ornish

  Food, Health, Cutting

  "Hearts and Minds" by Roberto Suro, New York Times Magazine, December 29, 1991.

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• I became a vegetarian after realizing that animals feel afraid, cold, hungry and unhappy like we do. I feel very deeply about vegetarianism and the animal kingdom. It was my dog Boycott who led me to question the right of humans to eat other sentient beings.

  Cesar Chavez

  Inspiring, Dog, Food

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• The animal should not be measured by man. In a world older than ours they move finished and complete, gifted with extensions of the sense we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear.

  Henry Beston

  Inspirational, Motivational, Moving

  Henry Beston (1956). “The Outermost House”

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• From beasts we scorn as soulless, In forest, field and den, The cry goes up to witness The soulessness of men

  William Inge

  Animal, Men, Fields

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• Care for all the animals they need our help Care for all the children stop thinking of ourselves. And if we work together to try for harmony Someday we will live in peace

  Country Joe McDonald

  Teamwork, Children, Animal

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• If you don't want to be beaten, imprisoned, mutilated, killed ot tortured, then you shouldn't condone such behaviour towards anyone, be they human or not.

  Moby

  Animal, Behaviour, Want

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• The medical argument for animal testing doesn't stand up. Even if it did, I don't think we should kill other species. We think we're so much better; I'm not sure we are. I tell people, We've beaten into submission every animal on the face of the Earth, so we are the clear winners of whatever battle is going on between the species. Couldn't we be generous? I really do think it's time to get nice. No need to keep beating up on them. I think we've got to show that we're kind.

  Paul McCartney

  Nice, Animal, Thinking

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• I would look at a dog and when our eyes met, I realized that the dog and all creatures are my family. They're like you and me.

  Ziggy Marley

  Friendship, Dog, Eye

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

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