“Animal rights theory seeks to move at least some nonhumans from the “thing” side of the “person / thing” dualism over to… — Francione, Gary L Copy Share Image
If we lived in a State where virtue was profitable, common sense would make us good, and greed would make us saintly.… — Robert Bolt Copy Share Image
The belief that the animals exist because God created them - and that he created them so we can better meet our… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
“Death and Dying from the Animal’s Viewpoint Us humans are extremely attached to our bodies. We adorn them with beautiful jewelry.… — Lori Spagna Copy Share Image
I have never really been fond of animals. I certainly wasn't an 'animal lover' when I became involved in the movement. I… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
Dominion does not mean domination. We hold dominion over animals only because of our powerful and ubiquitous intellect. Not because we are… — Marc Bekoff Copy Share Image
The human mind evolved always in the company of the human body, and of the animal body before it was human. The… — John Desmond Bernal Copy Share Image
The animals share with us the privilege of having a soul Alas, what wickedness to swallow flesh into our own flesh, to… — Pythagoras Copy Share Image
I am not interested to know whether vivisection produces results that are profitable to the human race or doesn't...The pain which it… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There is a certain consideration, and a general duty of humanity, that binds us not only to the animals, which have life… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Deluged by apparent facts, arguments and counterarguments, our brains resort to the most obvious filter, the easiest cognitive shortcut for a social… — Zeynep Tufekci Copy Share Image
Finally, cooking is good citizenship. It's the only way to get serious about putting locally raised foods into your diet, which keeps… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Animals do feel like us, also joy, love, fear and pain but they cannot grasp the spoken word. It is our obligation… — Denis de Rougemont Copy Share Image
“A year-long study by the University of Pennsylvania, ending in 2009 and published in the journal Applied Animal Behavior Science (Elsevier), showed… — Edward Custo Copy Share Image
When you're a 20-something grassroots activist, and you're deciding how to spend your time and money to make a difference, it makes… — Rod Coronado Copy Share Image
Being vegan is easy. Are there social pressures that encourage you to continue to eat, wear, and use animal products? Of course… — Gary L. Francione Copy Share Image
There's something in us that is very much attracted to madness. Everyone who looks off the edge of a tall building has… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
[Replying to the question of the presenter: "where did the name "Sex Pistols" come from, who thought this name up?"] Some animal.… — John Lydon Copy Share Image
Christian theology provides some of the best arguments for respecting animal life and for taking seriously animals as partners with us within… — Andrew Linzey Copy Share Image
Fear is feeling, is not what do you think. That feeling keeps your body in every way to 100% and makes you… — Dani Pedrosa Copy Share Image
Man is a historical being : The realisations of the powers of human individuals living at any one time takes the cooperation… — John Rawls Copy Share Image
I guess from my perspective, puppy love is more of an emotional crush or a platonic affection. So my best advice would… — Nancy O'Dell Copy Share Image
Two of the many areas of conflict between Judeo-Christian values and leftism concern the separation between the holy and the profane and… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
Two things significantly distinguish human beings from the other animals; an interest in the past and the possibility of language. Brought together… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Fiction, with its preference for what is small and might elsewhere seem irrelevant; its facility for smuggling us into another skin and… — David Malouf Copy Share Image
“Maybe the greatest anger and frustration come not from unemployment or poverty or the lack of a future but from the feeling… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
“It's the way he gets noticed, you know? I mean, imagine what it would be like if you were a squirrel living… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“Just as humanity has extended this basic equal consideration to humans (including those who were once outside of our moral community), we… — Bob Torres Copy Share Image
Now, being in Africa, I was hungry for more of it, the changes of the seasons, the rains with no need to… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
There are a million ideas in a world of stories. Humans are storytelling animals. Everything's a story, everyone's got stories, we're perceiving… — Richard Linklater Copy Share Image
My Sunday school teachers had turned Bible narrative into children's fables. They talked about Noah and the ark because the story had… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
We have never understood why men mount the heads of animals and hang them up to look down on their conquerers. Possibly… — John Steinbeck 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
“Emotional attachments to and functions of animals in human families are highly variable — and not always positive. Some family pets are… — Jessica Pierce Copy Share Image
I was sitting in Arizona when I received Dogs on Cape Cod. Seeing the joy these dogs had playing on the beaches… — Betsy King Copy Share Image
If any vegans came over for dinner, I could whip them up a salad, then explain my philosophy on being a carnivore:… — Sarah Palin Copy Share Image
Unlike some people who have experienced the loss of an animal, I did not believe, even for a moment, that I would… — Cleveland Amory Copy Share Image
Dogs are like their owners. If you get an uptight owner, you have an uptight dog. If you have an assertive owner,… — James R. Heath Copy Share Image
Dogs possess a quality that's rare among humans -- the ability to make you feel valued just by being you -- and… — Caroline Knapp Copy Share Image
In the animal world, on the other hand, the process of evolution is characterised by the progressive discrimination of the animal and… — Wilhelm Wundt Copy Share Image