SIR,-Your letter of February the 18th came to hand on the 1st instant; and the request of the history of my physical… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“The recognition that human beings are specifically and deliberately responsible for whatever aberrances farm animals may embody, that their discordances reflect our,… — Karen Davis Copy Share Image
“The question is not, "Can they reason?" nor, "Can they talk?" but "Can they suffer?” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Stand still, close your eyes and listen; in the silence you can hear the cries of pain and low moans of anguish… — Ashley Montagu Copy Share Image
“Who are we to say dogs and cats have more rights than cows and pigs. They’re all conscious. They feel the same.… — Izey Victoria Odiase Copy Share Image
Because I'm a civil rights activist, I am also an animal rights activist. Animals and humans suffer and die alike. Violence causes… — Dick Gregory Copy Share Image
As animal rights activists, we have the duty to fight for the animal to live, not die. — Shane Barbi Copy Share Image
He [man] abuses equally other animals and his own species, the rest of whom live in famine, languish in misery, and work… — Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon Copy Share Image
The day may come when the rest of the animal creation may acquire those rights which never could have been withholden from… — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
“I have been impressed by the realization that a few men have virtually 'decided' what experiences count and even exist in the… — Karen Davis Copy Share Image
The brute animals have all the same sensations of pain as human beings, and consequently endure as much pain when their body… — Thomas Chalmers Copy Share Image
So long as men are compassionate to such a degree that they cannot hear a fly struggling in a spider's web without… — John Newton Copy Share Image
A society remotely worth its salt eventually has to come to grips with the barbarism practiced upon helpless creatures in the name… — William Kunstler Copy Share Image
Even if a bodhisattva investigates the highest wisdom, one is not a proper bodhisattva unless one applies skillful means for the benefit… — Je Tsongkhapa Copy Share Image
I want to realize brotherhood or identity not merely with the beings called human, but I want to realize identity with all… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
In all the round world of Utopia there is no meat. There used to be, but now we cannot stand the thought… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
In every country in the world, killing human beings is condemned. The Buddhist precept of non-killing extends even further, to include all… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
To be 'for animals' is not to be 'against humanity.' To require others to treat animals justly, as their rights require, is… — Tom Regan Copy Share Image
Just how destructive does a culinary preference have to be before we decide to eat something else? If contributing to the suffering… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
The prescription of the equality of human beings is not a description of an alleged actual equality among humans: it is a… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
We don't give a damn what you or anybody else on this planet thinks. We didn't sink those ships for you. We… — Paul Watson Copy Share Image
We need to reshape the movement as one of grassroots activists, and not 'professional activists' who populate the seemingly endless number of… — Gary L. Francione 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