One day, we would like an end to pet shops and the breeding of animals. — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
“Having a purebred human baby is like having a purebred dog; it's nothing but vanity, human vanity.” — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
Businesses are terrified. They have no idea what I'm going to do next. — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
Pet ownership is slavery. Animals are not ours to eat, wear, experiment on, or be entertained by. — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
I hope SeaWorld is exploring how, like Ringling, it can get out of the wild animal business. — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
Recognize meat for what it really is: the antibiotic- and pesticide-laden corpse of a tortured animal. — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
U.K. citizens fleeing the Middle East and Japan have been allowed to take their animal companions with them on evacuation flights. The… — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
When we build an attractive home, we raze land on which animals have already built their homes. They have nowhere to go. — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
It is dangerous to engage in even the most innocuous-seeming discourse with the FBI/ Homeland Security/ a local detective. — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
Our nonviolent tactics are not as effective. We ask nicely for years and get nothing. Someone makes a threat, and it works. — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
I don't use the word 'pet.' I think it's speciest language. I prefer 'companion animal.' We would no longer allow... pet shops...… — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
There's nothing humane about the flesh of animals who have had one or two or even three improvements made in their singularly… — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
Even if animal experiments did result in a cure for AIDS, of which there is no chance, I'd be against it on… — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
Most Americans, like most Japanese, view their dogs, cats, and other animal companions as family members, and rightly so. — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
[I believe] that animals have a worth in and of themselves, and that they are not inferior to human beings but rather… — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
We have to be aggressive when those we stick up for have no voice. I don't consider it radical to say cruelty… — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
The bottom line is that people dont have the right to manipulate or to breed dogs and cats ... If people want… — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
Since we can't count on the meat, egg, and dairy industries to protect animals from the most egregious forms of cruelty, what… — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
Seriously, I think everybody needs to be more disciplined; nobody needs any meat. But from a perspective of how many animals suffer,… — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
We are not in the home finding business, although it is certainly true that we do find homes from time to time… — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
Being asked to support humane meat means being asked to support the suffering of animals in transport, to approve of treatment that… — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
If it's anything that's going to result in suffering to animals or people, then I don't think [the end] justifies the means...… — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
If that hideousness came here, it wouldn't be any more hideous for the animals — they are all bound for a ghastly… — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
To me, it is one world, and the non-human animals bear the brunt of oppression and suffering. — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
When I hear of anyone walking into a lab and walking out with animals, my heart sings. — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
I wish we all would get up and go into the labs and take the animals out or burn them down. — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
Perhaps measuring animal intelligence by comparing it to human intelligence isn't the best litmus test. — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
More power to [Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty] if they can get someone's attention. — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
I will be the last person to condemn ALF [the Animal Liberation Front]. — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
Pet ownership is an absolutely abysmal situation brought about by human manipulation. — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
Euthanasia is the kindest gift to a dog or cat unwanted and unloved. — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
When it comes to having a central nervous system, and the ability to feel pain, hunger, and thirst, a rat is a pig is… — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share
We all have prejudices to dispel: the need to get away from thinking that 'I' am important and special and 'you' are not, and… — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share
The extinction of Homo Sapiens would mean survival for millions, if not billions, of Earth-dwelling species. Phasing out the human race will solve every… — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share
Pet ownership is slavery. Animals are not ours to eat, wear, experiment on, or be entertained by. — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share
Perhaps measuring animal intelligence by comparing it to human intelligence isn't the best litmus test. — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share
One hates to be absolute, but in my view, there is no such thing as humane meat. — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share
It's interesting that one of the definitions of the word 'human' is 'sympathetic.' More and more people are beginning to show that they understand… — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share
Probably everything we do is a publicity stunt ... we are not here to gather members, to please, to placate, to make friends. We're… — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share
The bottom line is that people dont have the right to manipulate or to breed dogs and cats ... If people want toys, they… — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share
Even painless research is fascism, supremacism, because the act of confinement is traumatizing in itself. — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share
All of us in society are supposed to believe that cruelty to animals is wrong and that it is a good thing to prevent… — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share
I think if you're against cruelty and you look at what happens to animals in slaughterhouses and on factory farms, you have to be… — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share
Humans have grown like a cancer. We're the biggest blight on the face of the earth. — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share
![“[I believe] that animals have a worth in and of themselves, and that they are not inferior to human beings but rather just different from us, and that they really don't exist for us nor do they belong to us...it should not be a question of how they should be treated within the context of their…” quote by Ingrid Newkirk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9a9/ingrid-newkirk-3962_animal_i-believe-that-animals-have-a-worth-in-a_2942608.png)
![“If it's anything that's going to result in suffering to animals or people, then I don't think [the end] justifies the means... Yeah; but then again if you could hurt ten people to save 100 people and there was no option, what would you do? I can't really address that.” quote by Ingrid Newkirk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/23f/ingrid-newkirk-3962_addresses_if-it-s-anything-that-s-going-to-result_2710087.png)
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