Animal Quote by Arthur Schopenhauer

“The phrase “animal rights” has been, and still is, employed most often to describe moral rights and social values in favor of compassion and…

— Paul Waldau

“The morality which emerges from the observation of the whole animal kingdom may be summed up in the words: "Do to others what you…

— Peter Kropotkin

The matter of the abuse and cruelty we inflict on other animals has to fight for our attention in what sometimes seems an already…

— Desmond Tutu

As a society, we are typically deeply disassociated from animal cruelty, but more than ever, animal protection organizations are telling the backstory. People are…

— Wayne Pacelle

All animals, including humans, have a right to lives of dignity and respect, without forced intrusions.

— Marc Bekoff

99% of our uses of animals, including our numerically most significant use of them for food, do not involve any sort of necessity or…

— Gary L. Francione

“Animals are property. There are laws that supposedly protect animal interests in being treated “humanely,” but that term is interpreted in large part to…

— Gary L. Francione

We do not think clearly about our moral obligations to animals.

— Gary L. Francione

The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. I hold that the more…

— Anonymous

We need a boundless ethics which will include animals also.

— Albert Schweitzer

“When animal rights activists or moral philosophers try to draw moral judgments about wild animal populations, they often suffer from a bad case of…

— John Durant

. . . As a so-called "civilized" people, and as members of a society in search of lasting peace in the world, we cannot…

— Nathaniel Altman