“Until you don't treat animals with love and affection, you are not civilized and cultured” — Sir P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar Copy Share Image
One of the most important things you can accomplish is just being yourself. — Dwayne Johnson Copy Share Image
I will be the last person to condemn ALF [the Animal Liberation Front]. — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
I am personally not advocating violence. I am simply saying that it is a morally acceptable tactic and it may be useful… — Jerry Vlasak Copy Share Image
By ceasing to rear and kill animals for food, we can make so much extra food available for humans that, properly distributed,… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
“So let me get this straight, you are telling me it's a harsh world, and using this as an excuse to add… — Mango Wodzak Copy Share Image
“Your perception of meat being nice is blurred by the likely fact that you are excluded from participating in, or even witnessing… — Mango Wodzak Copy Share Image
Should one break in and free the animals? That is illegal, but the obligation to obey the law is not absolute. It… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
What is there about the notion of a person, at law, that makes every living member of the species Homo sapiens a… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
“There was a young lady called Peaches, who simply loved animals to pieces. She ate pigs and sheep, and for cows she… — Mango Wodzak Copy Share Image
In a world where so much that is wild and free has been lost to us, we must leave these beautiful animals… — Ric O'Barry Copy Share Image
Once we ask why it should be that all human beings - including infants, the intellectually disabled, criminal psychopaths, Hitler, Stalin, and… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
So far as this argument is concerned nonhuman animals and infants and retarded humans are in the same category; and if we… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
I would not question the sincerity of vegetarians who take little interest in Animal Liberation because they give priority to other causes;… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
Racists violate the principle of equality by giving greater weight to the interests of members of their own race when there is… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
It would be nonsense to say that it was not in the interests of a stone to be kicked along the road...A… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
“Infantilism, the main characteristic of today's "developed societies", animalizes man by humanizing animals, enslaves man by "liberating" nature and stupefies man by… — Jakub Bożydar Wiśniewski Copy Share Image
It may be thought justifiable to require tests on animals of potentially life-saving drugs, but the same kinds of tests are used… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
I'm convinced that welfare reforms deserve our support, both because they are better (or at least much less bad) for the animals… — Bruce Friedrich Copy Share Image
“Is it possible that future generations will regard our present agribuisness and eating practices in much the same way we now view… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
If animals are no longer quite outside the moral sphere, they are still in a special section near the outer rim. Their… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
“Denying someone [else] justice just because you do not yet have your own is never a good idea. I am also convinced… — Sunaura Taylor Copy Share Image
The statement "I am in pain" may be one piece of evidence for the conclusion that the speaker is in pain, but… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
...the nervous systems of other animals were not artificially constructed - as a robot might be artificially constructed - to mimic the… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
It won't ruin our movement if someone gets killed in an animal rights action. It's going to happen sooner or later. The… — Jerry Vlasak Copy Share Image
If we really believe that animals have the same right to be free from pain and suffering at our hands, then, of… — Bruce Friedrich Copy Share Image
“From a nonpatriarchal metaethical standpoint, however, Singer's and Regan's theoretical similarities are as significant as their differences. In particular, both Singer's utilitarian… — Brian Luke Copy Share Image
“Do the religious texts and exemplars support anymal welfare or anymal liberation? What do religions teach us to be with regard to… — Lisa Kemmerer Copy Share Image
“In accepting as two primary texts, Singer's Animal Liberation and Regan's The Case for Animal Rights--texts that valorize rationality--the animal defense movement… — Carol J. Adams Copy Share Image
“it is a federal system of sadistic torture, vivisection, and animal genocide, which has been carried on for decades under the fraudulent… — Michael Tobias Copy Share Image
Lastly, anyone who believes in the possibility of total animal liberation while billions of humans continue to inhabit and decimate the planet… — Jerry Vlasak Copy Share Image
No consideration at all is given to the interests of the "pests" - the very word "pest" seems to exclude any concern… — Peter Singer 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
With the eventual acceptance of Darwin's theory we reach a modern understanding of nature, one which has since then changed in detail… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
Habits of thought lead us to brush aside descriptions of cruelty to animals as emotional, for "animal-lovers only"; or if not that,… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
Being kind to animals is not enough. Avoiding cruelty is not enough. Housing animals in more comfortable, larger cages is not enough.… — Tom Regan Copy Share Image
Whatever the reason, for most of the present century, the literature and publicity of the old established [animal welfare] groups made a… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
The newspapers do little better. Their coverage of nonhuman animals is dominated by "human interest" events like the birth of a baby… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
It is an indication of the extent to which people are now isolated from the animals they eat that children brought up… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image