Animal Rights Quotes - Page 23

• Animal rights is a part of my everyday life. When you live by example, you create a certain level of awareness. Friends of mine - people I have never discussed animal rights or vegetarianism with - are adopting vegetarian habits because they see it.

  Joaquin Phoenix

  Animal, Rights, Vegetarianism

  "Fake leather please!". Interview for Daily News and Analysis, www.dnaindia.com. November 14, 2006.

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• Animal rights, taken to their logical conclusion, mean votes for oysters.

  Bertrand Russell

  Taken, Mean, Animal

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• In the killing of animals there is cruelty, rage, and the accustoming of oneself to the bad habit of shedding innocent blood.

  Joseph Albo

  Animal, Blood, Killing

  Joseph Albo (1929). “ספר העקרים: book of principles”, [Philadelphia

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• I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Courage, People, Lions

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• It's a moral question about whether we have the right to exterminate species.

  David Attenborough

  Moral, Species

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• At the end of the day, these are issues that need to be discussed: femicides, among other things - immigrant rights, women's' rights, indigenous people's rights, animal rights, Mother Earth's rights. If we don't talk about these topics, then we have no place in democracy. It won't exist. Democracy isn't just voting; it's relegating your rights.

  Ruben Isaac Albarran Ortega

  Mother, Animal, Voting

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

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• No matter whether it's someone from the political left or right, we just need a voice to stand up and defend animal rights.

  Brigitte Bardot

  Animal, Rights, Voice

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• Those who have hardened, have a covenant with Death. Those who remain gentle are conjoined with Life.

  Laozi

  Animal, Covenant, Gentle

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• Pets are humanizing. They remind us we have an obligation and responsibility to preserve and nurture and care for all life.

  James Cromwell

  Responsibility, Pet, Care

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• Although Christianity has a poor record on animals (as it does, it must be said, on the treatment of slaves, women, children, and gays), it is also the case that Christian theology, when creatively and critically handled, can provide a strong basis for animal rights.

  Andrew Linzey

  Christian, Strong, Children

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• When I was in my teens I had a series of intensely religious experiences. They deepened my sense of God as the creator of all things. And they also deepened my sensitivity towards creation itself so that concern for God's creatures and animal rights followed from that. Some people think I'm an animal rights person who just happens, almost incidentally, to be religious. In fact, it's because I believe in God that I'm concerned about God's creatures. The religious impulse is primary.

  Andrew Linzey

  Religious, Believe, Thinking

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• I'm not an activist; I don't look for controversy. I'm not a political person, but I'm a person with compassion. I care passionately about equal rights. I care about human rights. I care about animal rights.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Compassion, Animal, Rights

  "Ellen DeGeneres: Nice Girls Finish First". Interview with David Hochman, www.goodhousekeeping.com. September 10, 2011.

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• 99% of our uses of animals, including our numerically most significant use of them for food, do not involve any sort of necessity or any real conflict between human and nonhuman interests. If animals matter morally at all, then, even without accepting a theory of animal rights, those uses of animals cannot be morally justified.

  Gary L. Francione

  Real, Animal, Rights

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• To see the convulsions, agonies and tortures of a poor fellow-creature, whom they cannot restore nor recompense, dying to gratify luxury and tickle callous and rank organs, must require a rocky heart, and a great degree of cruelty and ferocity. I cannot find any great difference between feeding on human flesh and feeding on animal flesh, except custom and practice.

  George Cheyne

  Heart, Animal, Practice

  "An Essay on Regimen: Together with Five Discourses, Medical, Moral, and Philosophical". Book by George Cheyne, 1740.

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• The way you really find out about the performer's seriousness about the cause is how long they stay with it when the spotlight gets turned off. You see a lot of celebrities switch gears. They go from the environment to animal rights to obesity or whatever. That I don't have a lot of respect for.

  Robert Redford

  Animal, Rights, Long

  “Robert Redford: What I've Learned” by Matthew Belloni, www.esquire.com. August 18, 2014.

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• Living creatures possess a moving soul and a certain spiritual superiority which in this respect make them similar to those who possess intellect (people) and they have the power of affecting their welfare and their food and they flee from pain and death.

  Nahmanides

  Spiritual, Pain, Moving

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• It shouldn't be the consumer's responsibility to figure out what's cruel and what's kind, what's environmentally destructive and what's sustainable. Cruel and destructive food products should be illegal. We don't need the option of buying children's toys made with lead paint, or aerosols with chlorofluorocarbons, or medicines with unlabeled side effects. And we don't need the option of buying factory-farmed animals.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Children, Responsibility, Animal

  "Eating Animals". Book by Jonathan Safran Foer, 2009.

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• Another Thing I'm Sick of Hearing: If I started that gay rights group, I must be gay. So if i start an animal rights group, what does that make me? A giraffe?

  James Howe

  Gay, Animal, Rights

  James Howe (2012). “Addie on the Inside”, p.109, Simon and Schuster

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• But perhaps the most important lesson I learned is that there are no walls between humans and the elephants except those that we put up ourselves, and that until we allow not only elephants, but all living creatures their place in the sun, we can never be whole ourselves.

  Lawrence Anthony

  Inspirational, Motivational, Wall

  Anthony Lawrence, Lawrence Anthony, Graham Spence (2009). “The Elephant Whisperer: Learning About Life, Loyalty and Freedom From a Remarkable Herd of Elephants”, p.365, Pan Macmillan

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• This, for many people, is what's most offensive about hunting—to some, disgusting: that it encourages, or allows, us not only to kill but to take a certain pleasure in killing

  Michael Pollan

  Hunting, People, Offensive

  Michael Pollan (2009). “The Omnivore's Dilemma: The Search for a Perfect Meal in a Fast-Food World”, p.182, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• I want to realize brotherhood or identity not merely with the beings called human, but I want to realize identity with all life, even with such things as crawl upon earth.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Life, Nature, Humility

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.114, A&C Black

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• Medical research is "immoral even it it's essential."

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Animal, Essentials, Research

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• Even granting that we [humans] face greater harm than laboratory animals presently endure if ... research on these animals is stopped, the animal rights view will not be satisfied with anything less than total abolition.

  Tom Regan

  Animal, Rights, Views

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• ...to kill animals for the purpose of feeding on their flesh is one of the most deplorable and shameful infirmities of the human state

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Animal, Purpose, Flesh

  Alphonse de Lamartine (1849). “Les Confidences”, p.60

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• Surely it should be a matter of moral responsibility that we humans, different from other animals mainly by virtue of our more highly developed intellect and, with it, our greater capacity for understanding and compassion, ensure that medical progress slowly detaches its roots from the manure of non-human animal suffering and despair.

  Jane Goodall

  Responsibility, Compassion, Animal

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