Animal Quote by Andrew Linzey

When I was in my teens I had a series of intensely religious experiences. They deepened my sense of God as the creator of…

— Andrew Linzey

If tomorrow we decided only to desist from killing and causing suffering for sport and entertainment, the world would be significantly better for animals.…

— Andrew Linzey

Looking back through the mists of time, I recall some distinctly religious experiences in my teens--when I was only fourteen years old to be…

— Andrew Linzey

Despite one or two minority appeals our society is not outraged at man's unremitting use of the animal world. Ecologists and environmentalists may talk…

— Andrew Linzey

Animals are God's creatures, not human property, nor utilities, nor resources, nor commodities, but precious beings in God's sight. ...Christians whose eyes are fixed…

— Andrew Linzey

The point to be grasped from the saintly tradition is that to love animals is not sentimentality (as we know it) but true spirituality.…

— Andrew Linzey

One cannot get to animal rights by trampling on human rights.

— Andrew Linzey

I do not oppose violence simply because it is counterproductive. I oppose it because it betrays animal rights philosophy. Those who resort to such…

— Andrew Linzey

Familiarity with holy things can often engender blindness, and churches are, for all their merits, institutions that embody, perhaps more than most, the will…

— Andrew Linzey

Humans have "dominion" over animals. But that "dominion" (radah in Hebrew) does not mean despotism, rather we are set over creation to care for…

— Andrew Linzey

It took Christians many years to realize that we cannot love God and also keep humans as slaves. It has taken even longer for…

— Andrew Linzey

We can't change the world for animals without changing our ideas about animals. We have to move from the idea that animals are things,…

— Andrew Linzey