Businesses are terrified. They have no idea what I'm going to do next. — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
One day, we would like an end to pet shops and the breeding of animals. — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
Would I rather the research lab that tests animals is reduced to a bunch of cinders? Yes. — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
Pet ownership is an absolutely abysmal situation brought about by human manipulation. — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
Humans have grown like a cancer. We're the biggest blight on the face of the earth. — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
If my father had a heart attack, it would give me no solace at all to know his treatment was first tried… — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
Our nonviolent tactics are not as effective. We ask nicely for years and get nothing. Someone makes a threat, and it works. — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
It is dangerous to engage in even the most innocuous-seeming discourse with the FBI/ Homeland Security/ a local detective. — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
We’re looking for good lawsuits that will establish the interests of animals as a legitimate area of concern in law. — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
The best bet for the horses would be to stop betting on the Derby and other horse races, and to stop breeding,… — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
Probably everything we do is a publicity stunt ... we are not here to gather members, to please, to placate, to make… — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
Six million Jews died in concentration camps, but six billion broiler chickens will die this year in slaughter houses. — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
...no movement for social change has ever succeeded without 'the militarism component'…Thinkers may prepare revolutions, but bandits must carry them out — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
I find that as I get older I seem to become more of a Luddite... And hearing animal experimenters describe me as… — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
A burning building doesnt help melt peoples hearts, but times change and tactics, Im sure, have to change with them. If you… — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
I am not a morose person, but I would rather not be here. I don't have any reverence for life, only for… — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
Perhaps the mere idea of receiving a nasty missive will allow animal researchers to empathize with their victims for the first time… — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
When it comes to having a central nervous system, and the ability to feel pain, hunger, and thirst, a rat is a pig is… — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share
We all have prejudices to dispel: the need to get away from thinking that 'I' am important and special and 'you' are not, and… — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share
The extinction of Homo Sapiens would mean survival for millions, if not billions, of Earth-dwelling species. Phasing out the human race will solve every… — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share
Pet ownership is slavery. Animals are not ours to eat, wear, experiment on, or be entertained by. — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share
Perhaps measuring animal intelligence by comparing it to human intelligence isn't the best litmus test. — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share
One hates to be absolute, but in my view, there is no such thing as humane meat. — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share
It's interesting that one of the definitions of the word 'human' is 'sympathetic.' More and more people are beginning to show that they understand… — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share
Probably everything we do is a publicity stunt ... we are not here to gather members, to please, to placate, to make friends. We're… — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share
The bottom line is that people dont have the right to manipulate or to breed dogs and cats ... If people want toys, they… — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share
Even painless research is fascism, supremacism, because the act of confinement is traumatizing in itself. — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share
All of us in society are supposed to believe that cruelty to animals is wrong and that it is a good thing to prevent… — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share
I think if you're against cruelty and you look at what happens to animals in slaughterhouses and on factory farms, you have to be… — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share
Humans have grown like a cancer. We're the biggest blight on the face of the earth. — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share
