Animal - rights Quotes · Page 6

People get offended by animal rights campaigns. It's ludicrous. It's not as bad as mass animal death in a factory.

— Richard Gere

We fill the slaughterhouses daily with screams of fear and pain.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“I return one last time to the places of death all around us, the places of slaughter to which, in a huge…

— J.M. Coetzee

The movie industry would never purposely offend homosexuals, native Americans, environmentalists, animal rights activists, or women's groups, but they don't think twice…

— Tim LaHaye

I find that as I get older I seem to become more of a Luddite... And hearing animal experimenters describe me as…

— Ingrid Newkirk

[T]he moralists of Europe [have] pretended that beasts have no rights... a doctrine revolting/gross/barbarous... on which a native of the Asiatic uplands…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

While law-abiding Muslims are forced to hide in their homes, and animal-rights activists are labeled as terrorists for undercover filming of abusive…

— Amy Goodman

If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be vegetarian. We feel better about ourselves and better about the animals, knowing we're not…

— Linda McCartney

Now what is it moves our very heart, and sickens us so much as cruelty shown to poor brutes? I suppose this:…

— John Henry Newman

We don't live the lives of Eskimos. We don't need to kill animals for fashion.

— Charlize Theron

I've got some incredible fans actually - so loyal and they make me birthday cards and Christmas cards. I got this package…

— Debby Ryan

This is so like the way the Americans deliberately erroneously refer to Afghans and Iraqis as terrorists when they fight back killing…

— Bob Barker

If an 'animal abuser' were killed in a research lab firebombing, I would unequivocally support that, too.

— Gary Yourofsky

Animals give me more pleasure through the viewfinder of a camera than they ever did in the crosshairs of a gunsight.

— James Stewart

I think Dario Ringach is a poster boy for the concept that the use of force or the threat of force is…

— Jerry Vlasak

Human dignity begins to assert itself only at the point where man is distinguishable from the beast by pity for it.

— Richard Wagner

We have abolished human bondage because it cursed those who imposed it. It is now our bounden duty to oppose cruelty to…

— S. Parkes Cadman

I can't say I'm anything like a devoted animal rights activist, but I certainly oppose cruelty to animals.

— Robert Paul Weston

If anyone wants to save the planet, all they have to do is just stop eating meat.

— Paul McCartney

I think [food producers] should appreciate that we're only targeting their property. Because frankly I think it's time to start targeting them.

— Rod Coronado

My dream is that people will come to view eating an animal as cannibalism.

— Henry Spira

The definition of obscenity on the newsstands should be extended to many hunting magazines.

— Wayne Pacelle

Being kind to animals is not enough. Avoiding cruelty is not enough. Housing animals in more comfortable, larger cages is not enough.…

— Tom Regan

Out of 135 criminals, including robbers and rapists, 118 admitted that when they were children they burned, hanged and stabbed domestic animals.

— George W. Bush

The only creature on earth whose natural habitat is a zoo is the zookeeper.

— Robert Breault