Could you look an animal in the eyes and say to it, 'My appetite is more important than your suffering'? — Moby Copy Share Image
It is more important to prevent animal suffering, rather than sit to contemplate the evils of the universe praying in the company… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
“the very people who clamor the loudest about animal suffering won’t actually pay for meat that has been ethically slaughtered.” — John Durant Copy Share Image
“ONE OF THE most pernicious effects of religion is that it tends to divorce morality from the reality of human and animal… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
There's no better feeling in the world than knowing that my show played a role in stopping animal abuse or alleviating animal… — Jane Velez-Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Whether we're talking about fish species, pigs, or some other eaten animal, is such suffering the most important thing in the world?… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
If you are interested in preventing animal suffering, the first thing you should give up is eggs and milk because the animals… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
So in 1987 I gave up all animal products and became a vegan. Simply so that I could eat and live in… — Moby Copy Share Image
If we are ever to halt climate change and conserve land, water and other resources, not to mention reduce animal suffering, we… — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
“I take it hard when an animal in my care suffers or dies. I take it even harder when the animal's suffering… — Linda Bender Copy Share Image
My own view is that being a vegetarian or vegan is not an end in itself, but a means towards reducing both… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
The indifference, callousness and contempt that so many people exhibit toward animals is evil first because it results in great suffering in… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
As custodians of the planet it is our responsibility to deal with all species with kindness, love, and compassion. That these animals… — Richard Gere Copy Share Image
As Jeremy Bentham had asked about animals well over two hundred years ago, the question was not whether they could reason or… — Chris Bohjalian Copy Share Image
What else is it that should trace the insuperable line? Is it the faculty of reason or perhaps the faculty of discourse?… — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
Typically, defenders of experiments on animals do not deny that animals suffer. They cannot deny the animals' suffering, because they need to… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
“When a man’s love of finery clouds his moral judgment, that is vanity. When he lets a demanding palate make his moral… — Matthew Scully Copy Share Image
People must have renounced, it seems to me, all natural intelligence to dare to advance that animals are but animated machines… It… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
I find it very annoying that so many animal advocates talk about the difficulty of being vegan. Many animal advocates are inclined… — Gary L. Francione Copy Share Image
The indifference, callousness and contempt that so many people exhibit toward animals is evil first because it results in great suffering in… — Ashley Montagu Copy Share Image
Let's just call things what they are. When a man's love of finery clouds his moral judgment, that is vanity. When he… — Matthew Scully Copy Share Image
“The carnistic schema, which twists information so that nonsense seems to make perfect sense, also explains why we fail to see the… — Melanie Joy Copy Share Image
“The stillness was so profound that he heard a little animal twittering somewhere near by under the snow. It made a small… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
“But why must the system go to such lengths to block our empathy? Why all the psychological acrobatics? The answer is simple:… — Melanie Joy Copy Share Image
Surely it should be a matter of moral responsibility that we humans, different from other animals mainly by virtue of our more… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
Once admit that we have the right to inflict unnecessary suffering and you destroy the very basis of human society. — John Galsworthy Copy Share Image
For years, I have traveled all around the country to promote animal welfare, fighting for policies that will finally eliminate unnecessary animal… — Lara Trump Copy Share Image
I turned to human suffering because - this may sound odd - animal suffering is more difficult for me to deal with. — Rigoberto Gonzalez Copy Share Image
Some philosophers have begun writing sympathetically about predator elimination as a way of reducing animal suffering. From an environmental perspective this is… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
The public hardly suspects that their purchase of cosmetics, pet food, toothpaste, eggs and other common items have, in all likelihood, caused… — Marianne Thieme Copy Share Image
What is it that should trace the insuperable line? ...The question is not, Can they reason? nor Can they talk? but, Can… — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
Being vegan truly is the secret to my life's joy and peace. I feel physically and spiritually better than I could have… — Alicia Silverstone 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
The vast carnival of cruelty called animal exploitation goes on and on - and it is all so needless, even counter-productive. There… — H. Jay Dinshah Copy Share Image
“One of the most pernicious effects of religion is that it tends to divorce morality from the reality of human and animal… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“Reasonableness is a matter of degree. Beliefs can be very reasonable (Japan exists), fairly reasonable (quarks exist), not unreasonable (there's intelligent life… — Stephen Law 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
