Animal Quote by Alicia Silverstone

Humans — who enslave, castrate, experiment on, and fillet other animals — have had an understandable penchant for pretending animals do not feel pain.…

— Carl Sagan

If I hammer my own thumb while doing some DIY, it's not nice, but it's not the end of the world. To care obsessively…

— Julian Baggini

The simplest and clearest motivation for taking animal welfare seriously is the recognition that pain is in and of itself a bad thing, and…

— Julian Baggini

I find it difficult to feel responsible for the suffering of others. That's why I find war so hard to bear. It's the same…

— Alice Walker

We have to realize that treating animals well is in our best interests, too. Cruelty is indivisible; when you are cruel to an animal,…

— Jonathan Balcombe

“In the world of animals, pain serves an equivocal role. Parental nips and swipes are common tools in upbringing. And socially, pain is sometimes…

— Geoff Mains

Our economic order is tightly woven around the exploitation of animals, and while it may seem easy to dismiss concern about animals as the…

— Bob Torres

I'm a little bit of a glutton for punishment, especially when it comes to work. I don't mind a bit of suffering. I think…

— Melissa Leo

I don't myself believe that, even when we fulfill our minimum obligations not to cause pain, we have the right to kill animals. I…

— Brigid Brophy

“One of the hardest things you'll ever do is give yourself permission to be in pain of any kind. There's a reason we have…

— Anne Clendening

“Becoming aware of the intense suffering of billions of animals, and of our own participation in that suffering, can bring up painful emotions: sorrow…

— Melanie Joy

The idolatry of food cuts across class lines. This can be seen in the public's toleration of a level of cruelty in meat production…

— Brian Reynolds Myers