Businesses are terrified. They have no idea what I'm going to do next. — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
“Having a purebred human baby is like having a purebred dog; it's nothing but vanity, human vanity.” — 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
...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 don't have the luxury of having a dog myself because I travel too much, but I love walking and cuddling somebody… — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
Most Americans, like most Japanese, view their dogs, cats, and other animal companions as family members, and rightly so. — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
Even if animal experiments did result in a cure for AIDS, of which there is no chance, I'd be against it on… — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
Animal liberationists do not separate out the human animal, so there is no rational basis for saying that a human being has… — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
I am just trying to make the best possible case for the animals. That is clearly what I have been put on… — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
At PETA, we often say that the issue of how animals are treated isn't just about them; it's about us, how we… — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
Ninety-five percent of the eggs produced in America come from factory-farmed birds. Even if free-range farms were hugely more humane, the sheer… — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
Society is celebrity-based and we are determined to use [celebrities'] voices to make sure no one forgets there are issues over the… — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
Animals aren't any better equipped to survive an emergency than humans are. Few people missed the fact that after Hurricane Katrina, people… — 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
By adopting a wonderful mutt, you'll save a life and help reduce animal homelessness while also boosting your chances of a more… — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
Every animal has his or her story, his or her thoughts, daydreams, and interests. All feel joy and love, pain and fear,… — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
Since we can't count on the meat, egg, and dairy industries to protect animals from the most egregious forms of cruelty, what… — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
The bottom line is that people dont have the right to manipulate or to breed dogs and cats ... If people want… — 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
There's nothing humane about the flesh of animals who have had one or two or even three improvements made in their singularly… — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
I don't use the word 'pet.' I think it's speciest language. I prefer 'companion animal.' We would no longer allow... pet shops...… — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
U.K. citizens fleeing the Middle East and Japan have been allowed to take their animal companions with them on evacuation flights. The… — 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
When we build an attractive home, we raze land on which animals have already built their homes. They have nowhere to go. — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
We have to be aggressive when those we stick up for have no voice. I don't consider it radical to say cruelty… — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
[I believe] that animals have a worth in and of themselves, and that they are not inferior to human beings but rather… — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
If it's anything that's going to result in suffering to animals or people, then I don't think [the end] justifies the means...… — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
Being asked to support humane meat means being asked to support the suffering of animals in transport, to approve of treatment that… — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
We are not in the home finding business, although it is certainly true that we do find homes from time to time… — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
Seriously, I think everybody needs to be more disciplined; nobody needs any meat. But from a perspective of how many animals suffer,… — 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
![“Society is celebrity-based and we are determined to use [celebrities'] voices to make sure no one forgets there are issues over the use of animals. Celebrities can be great for our cause and can really make people sit up and think for the first time about animal abuse.” quote by Ingrid Newkirk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/437/ingrid-newkirk-3962_abuse_society-is-celebrity-based-and-we-are-de_698163.png)
![“[I believe] that animals have a worth in and of themselves, and that they are not inferior to human beings but rather just different from us, and that they really don't exist for us nor do they belong to us...it should not be a question of how they should be treated within the context of their…” quote by Ingrid Newkirk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9a9/ingrid-newkirk-3962_animal_i-believe-that-animals-have-a-worth-in-a_2942608.png)
![“If it's anything that's going to result in suffering to animals or people, then I don't think [the end] justifies the means... Yeah; but then again if you could hurt ten people to save 100 people and there was no option, what would you do? I can't really address that.” quote by Ingrid Newkirk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/23f/ingrid-newkirk-3962_addresses_if-it-s-anything-that-s-going-to-result_2710087.png)
