Ingrid Newkirk

Would I rather the research lab that tests animals is reduced to a bunch of cinders? Yes.

— Ingrid Newkirk

Pet ownership is an absolutely abysmal situation brought about by human manipulation.

— Ingrid Newkirk

In the end, I think it would be lovely if we stopped this whole notion of pets altogether,

— Ingrid Newkirk

Euthanasia is the kindest gift to a dog or cat unwanted and unloved.

— Ingrid Newkirk

I know it's illegal [trespassing], but I don't think it's wrong.

— Ingrid Newkirk

I will be the last person to condemn ALF [the Animal Liberation Front].

— Ingrid Newkirk

More power to [Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty] if they can get someone's attention.

— Ingrid Newkirk

The smallest form of life, even an ant or a clam, is equal to a human being

— Ingrid Newkirk

If my father had a heart attack, it would give me no solace at all to know his treatment was first tried…

— Ingrid Newkirk

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

When we build an attractive home, we raze land on which animals have already built their homes. They have nowhere to go.

— Ingrid Newkirk

Even painless research is fascism, supremacism, because the act of confinement is traumatizing in itself.

— Ingrid Newkirk

Our nonviolent tactics are not as effective. We ask nicely for years and get nothing. Someone makes a threat, and it works.

— Ingrid Newkirk

Consumers of meat, eggs and dairy products might well ask what they are supporting. Do farmers care about anyone but themselves? Can't…

— Ingrid Newkirk

It is dangerous to engage in even the most innocuous-seeming discourse with the FBI/ Homeland Security/ a local detective.

— Ingrid Newkirk

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

You dont have to own squirrels and starlings to get enjoyment from them ... One day, we would like an end to…

— Ingrid Newkirk

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

We are not in the home finding business, although it is certainly true that we do find homes from time to time…

— Ingrid Newkirk

Seriously, I think everybody needs to be more disciplined; nobody needs any meat. But from a perspective of how many animals suffer,…

— Ingrid Newkirk

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

Bulls can do nothing to demand justice. They can only defend themselves as best they can in a fight with a pre-determined…

— Ingrid Newkirk

If Vice President Al Gore advocated killing rabbits to see if women are pregnant and called it a step forward for science,…

— Ingrid Newkirk

Being asked to support humane meat means being asked to support the suffering of animals in transport, to approve of treatment that…

— Ingrid Newkirk

Perhaps measuring animal intelligence by comparing it to human intelligence isn't the best litmus test.

— Ingrid Newkirk

When it comes to pain, love, joy, loneliness, and fear, a rat is a pig is a dog is a boy.

— Ingrid Newkirk

…we would like an end to pet shops and the breeding of animals.

— Ingrid Newkirk

To me, it is one world, and the non-human animals bear the brunt of oppression and suffering.

— Ingrid Newkirk

Humans have grown like a cancer. We're the biggest blight on the face of the earth.

— Ingrid Newkirk

A lot of people have culturally induced ethical blindness, but they can be cured!

— Ingrid Newkirk

I wish we all would get up and go into the labs and take the animals out or burn them down.

— Ingrid Newkirk

When I hear of anyone walking into a lab and walking out with animals, my heart sings.

— Ingrid Newkirk

Pigeon racing is a lousy, greedy, and often unlawful activity. One thing that it is not is kind to birds.

— Ingrid Newkirk

It's the 21st century. It's healthier for us, better for the environment and certainly kinder to be a vegetarian.

— Ingrid Newkirk

We’re looking for good lawsuits that will establish the interests of animals as a legitimate area of concern in law.

— Ingrid Newkirk

Eventually companion animals would be phased out, and we would return to a more symbiotic relationship, enjoyment at a distance.

— Ingrid Newkirk

Anybody who witnesses the suffering of animals and has a glimmer of hope of reducing that suffering can't take the position that…

— Ingrid Newkirk

Pigeons are among the most maligned urban wildlife despite the fact that human beings brought them to our shores and turned them…

— Ingrid Newkirk

I am not only uninterested in having children. I am opposed to having children. Having a purebred human baby is like having…

— Ingrid Newkirk

Why go for a costly, sickly, mass-produced purebred when shelters are full of one-of-a-kind mixed breeds who are literally dying for a…

— Ingrid Newkirk