If intelligence and capability are not criteria for the…

In the past, it was possible to destroy a village, a town, a region, even a country. Now it is the whole planet that…

— Pope John Paul II

...our species is one, and each of the individuals who compose it are entitled to equal moral consideration.

— Michael Ignatieff

For at the same time many people seem eager to extend the circle of our moral consideration to animals, in our factory farms and…

— Michael Pollan

Anything that makes it easier to imagine trading places with someone else increases your moral consideration for that other person.

— Steven Pinker

A civilized society must count animals as worthy of moral consideration and ethical treatment. The question is not, Can they reason? nor Can they…

— Jeremy Bentham

But when a woman decides to sleep with a man, there is no wall she will not scale, no fortress she will not destroy,…

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

There is a claim coming from the West that says that all art must be outside any moral consideration. I can understand this as…

— Tariq Ramadan

Strictly speaking, my interest is not in legal rights for animals but in a change of heart towards animals.

— J. M. Coetzee

A growing and increasingly influential movement of philosophers, ethicists, law professors and activists are convinced that the great moral struggle of our time will…

— Michael Pollan

. . . As a so-called "civilized" people, and as members of a society in search of lasting peace in the world, we cannot…

— Nathaniel Altman

I don't hold animals superior or even equal to humans. The whole case for behaving decently to animals rests on the fact that we…

— Brigid Brophy

Rights give rise to legal claims. Ultimately, the more rights animals are granted, the greater the legal lien exercised on their behalf against the…

— Ilana Mercer

There is animal rights and animals rights organizations like PETA, then there's animal welfare, which is very different than animal rights.

— Eric Goode

My own experience has taught me not to underestimate the power of those who protest against cruelty. I'd also say that there may be…

— Bette Ford

To attribute rights to animals is to ignore the purpose and justification of rights - to protect the interests of man.

— Alex Epstein