Andrew Linzey

One cannot get to animal rights by trampling on human rights.

— Andrew Linzey

I fear theology is--in the words attributed to William Temple--"still in its infancy" when it comes to animals.

— Andrew Linzey

“I mean consider how very horrible it is to read the accounts which sometimes meet us of cruelty inflicted on brute animals.…

— Andrew Linzey

Humans have "dominion" over animals. But that "dominion" (radah in Hebrew) does not mean despotism, rather we are set over creation to…

— Andrew Linzey

If the cross does provide us with a true picture of what God is like, it follows that God is a redeeming…

— Andrew Linzey

If tomorrow we decided only to desist from killing and causing suffering for sport and entertainment, the world would be significantly better…

— Andrew Linzey

It is an unfortunate fact that those people who are most eloquent in their demand for the conservation of animals are often…

— Andrew Linzey

I would happily, sometimes more than happily, have vacated my role as an animal theologian, if there were others prepared to take…

— Andrew Linzey

There are only two ways to deal with the media: either elect to take the Buddha's vow of eternal silence, or make…

— Andrew Linzey

In God's eyes, all creatures have value whether we find them cuddly, affectionate, beautiful or otherwise. Our own perspective-in a way-is neither…

— Andrew Linzey

It took Christians many years to realize that we cannot love God and also keep humans as slaves. It has taken even…

— Andrew Linzey

The Bible nowhere says that animals are just made for human use. It does not say that the whole earth is just…

— Andrew Linzey

When I was in my teens I had a series of intensely religious experiences. They deepened my sense of God as the…

— Andrew Linzey

Familiarity with holy things can often engender blindness, and churches are, for all their merits, institutions that embody, perhaps more than most,…

— Andrew Linzey

Despite one or two minority appeals our society is not outraged at man's unremitting use of the animal world. Ecologists and environmentalists…

— Andrew Linzey

The biblical case for vegetarianism does not rest on the view that killing may never be allowable in the eyes of God,…

— Andrew Linzey

The point to be grasped from the saintly tradition is that to love animals is not sentimentality (as we know it) but…

— Andrew Linzey

Looking back through the mists of time, I recall some distinctly religious experiences in my teens--when I was only fourteen years old…

— Andrew Linzey

I look forward to the time when the churches come to celebrate and honour the work of animal protection as an imperative…

— Andrew Linzey

If it was really true that predation is God's will, it would have to follow for Christians that the life of Jesus…

— Andrew Linzey

We can't change the world for animals without changing our ideas about animals. We have to move from the idea that animals…

— Andrew Linzey

Although Christianity has a poor record on animals (as it does, it must be said, on the treatment of slaves, women, children,…

— Andrew Linzey

I do not oppose violence simply because it is counterproductive. I oppose it because it betrays animal rights philosophy. Those who resort…

— Andrew Linzey

Christian theology provides some of the best arguments for respecting animal life and for taking seriously animals as partners with us within…

— Andrew Linzey

Animals are God's creatures, not human property, nor utilities, nor resources, nor commodities, but precious beings in God's sight. ...Christians whose eyes…

— Andrew Linzey

Moral education, as I understand it, is not about inculcating obedience to law or cultivating self-virtue, it is rather about finding within…

— Andrew Linzey

For if animals are God's creatures, we have no absolute rights over them, only the duty to look after them as God…

— Andrew Linzey