Animal Quotes - Page 22

• Human care (of animals) is simply sentimental, sympathetic patronage.

  Wayne Pacelle

  Care, Sentimental, Patronage

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• We believe in the Three Rs - reducing the consumption of meat and other animal-based foods; refining the diet by eating products only from methods of production, transport, and slaughter that minimize pain and distress; and replacing meat and other animal-based foods in the diet with plant-based foods.

  Wayne Pacelle

  Pain, Believe, Meat

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• The Humane Society of the United States works with local Humane Societies across the country. We don't control every local Humane Society in this nation. These organizations strive to the greatest degree to provide homes for animals and to encourage adoption, to spay and neuter animals. And if a decision is made to euthanize, it is a failure of society, not the local organizations who are striving to do their best.

  Wayne Pacelle

  Country, Home, Organization

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• Animal liberationists do not separate out the human animal, so there is no rational basis for saying that a human being has special rights. A rat is a pig is a dog is a boy. They're all mammals.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Dog, Boys, Rights

  Vogue, September 1, 1989.

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• Eventually companion animals would be phased out, and we would return to a more symbiotic relationship - enjoyment at a distance.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Distance, Return, Would Be

  "What are We Talking About? The Harper's Forum Book". Book by Jack Hitt, 1989.

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• If that hideousness came here, it wouldn't be any more hideous for the animals — they are all bound for a ghastly death anyway. But it would wake up consumers... I openly hope that it comes here. It will bring economic harm only for those who profit from giving people heart attacks and giving animals a concentration camp-like existence. It would be good for animals, good for human health and good for the environment.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Heart, People, Giving

  "PETA: Bring On Foot-and-Mouth Disease" by Alan Elsner, abcnews.go.com. April 2, 2001.

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• Even if animal tests produced a cure for AIDS, we'd be against it.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Tests, Aids, Peta

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• I'd go to work early, before anyone got there, and I would just kill the animals myself...I must have killed a thousand of them, sometimes dozens every day.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Dozen, Sometimes, Peta

  "Mother nature (part one)" by Michael Specter, www.theguardian.com. June 22, 2003.

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• You dont have to own squirrels and starlings to get enjoyment from them ... One day, we would like an end to pet shops and the breeding of animals. [Dogs] would pursue their natural lives in the wild ... they would have full lives, not wasting at home for someone to come home in the evening and pet them and then sit there and watch TV.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Dog, Home, Squirrels

  "The Chicago Daily Herald" Newspaper, March 1, 1990.

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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

  Law, Peta, Interest

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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

  Simple, Thinking, Should Have

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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

  Light, Careers, Ideas

  "The Chronicle of Higher Education" Newspaper, November 12. 1999.

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• Would I rather the research lab that tests animals is reduced to a bunch of cinders? Yes.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Research, Labs, Tests

  "New York Daily News" Newspaper, December 7, 1997.

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• I will be the last person to condemn ALF [the Animal Liberation Front].

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Lasts, Peta, Liberation

  "The New York Daily News" Newspaper, December 7, 1997.

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• We are not in the home finding business, although it is certainly true that we do find homes from time to time for the kind of animals people are looking for. Our service is to provide a peaceful and painless death to animals who no one wants.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Home, People, Peaceful

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• Feeding plants to animals then eating the animals is like filtering water through a sewer then drinking it.

  Bruce Friedrich

  Drinking, Water, Eating

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• If we really believe that animals have the same right to be free from pain
  and suffering at our hands, then, of course we’re going to be, as a
  movement, blowing things up and smashing windows … I think it’s a great way
  to bring about animal liberation … I think it would be great if all of the
  fast-food outlets, slaughterhouses, these laboratories, and the banks that
  fund them exploded tomorrow. I think it's perfectly appropriate for people
  to take bricks and toss them through the windows ... Hallelujah to the
  people who are willing to do it.

  Bruce Friedrich

  Pain, Believe, Thinking

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• In a perfect world, we would not keep animals for our benefit, including pets.

  Tom Regan

  Perfect, Pet, Benefits

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• If abandoning animal research means that there are some things we cannot learn, then so be it ... We have no basic right ... not to be harmed by those natural diseases we are heir to.

  Tom Regan

  Mean, Disease, Heirs

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• It is not larger, cleaner cages that justice demands...but empty cages; not traditional animal agriculture but a complete end to all commerce in the flesh of dead animals; not more humane hunting and trapping, but the total eradication of these barbarous practices.

  Tom Regan

  Hunting, Practice, Agriculture

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• You've heard of animals chewing off a leg to escape a trap? There's an animal kind of trick. A human would remain in the trap, endure the pain, feigning death that he might kill the trapper and remove a threat to his kind.

  Frank Herbert

  Pain, Might, Legs

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.16, Penguin

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• Children will draw pictures with everything in them...houses and trees and people and animals...and the sun AND the moon. Grown-up says, "That's a nice picture, Honey, but you put the moon and the sun in the sky at the same time and that isn't right." But the child is right! The sun and moon are in the sky at the same time.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Children, Nice, Moon

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• . . . this rage - I have never forgotten it - contained every anger, every revolt I had ever felt in my life - the way I felt when I saw the black dog hunted, the way I felt when I watched old Uncle Henry taken away to the almshouse, the way I felt whenever I had seen people or animals hurt for the pleasure or profit of others.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Dog, Hurt, Uncles

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• The time comes to every dog when it ceases to care for people merely for biscuits or bones, or even for caresses, and walks out of doors. When a dog really loves, it prefers the person who gives it nothing, and perhaps is too ill ever to take it out for exercise, to all the liberal cooks and active dog-boys in the world.

  Frances Power Cobbe

  Dog, Exercise, Boys

  "The Confessions of a Lost Dog" by Frances Power Cobbe, London: Griffith & Farran, (pp. 15-16), 1867.

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• People in the United States still have a 'Tarzan' movie view of Africa. That's because in the movies all you see are jungles and animals . . . We [too] watch television and listen to the radio and go to dances and fall in love.

  Miriam Makeba

  Falling In Love, Views, People

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