Ingrid Newkirk

Cows are gentle, interesting animals.

— Ingrid Newkirk

Eating meat is primitive, barbaric, and arrogant.

— Ingrid Newkirk

Never doubt that one person can make a difference.

— Ingrid Newkirk

We are complete press sluts.

— Ingrid Newkirk

We do not advocate right to life for animals.

— Ingrid Newkirk

A rat is a pig is a dog is a boy.

— Ingrid Newkirk

Even painless research is fascism, supremacism.

— Ingrid Newkirk

Winners don't eat wieners.

— 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

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

— Ingrid Newkirk

A rat is a pig is a dog is a boy. They're all animals.

— Ingrid Newkirk

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

— 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

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

— Ingrid Newkirk

If we are ever to halt climate change and conserve land, water and other resources, not to mention reduce animal suffering, we…

— Ingrid Newkirk

Whether or not we are religious, respecting others should be seen as just as important as looking out for ourselves, yet it…

— 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

I'd go to work early, before anyone got there, and I would just kill the animals myself...I must have killed a thousand…

— Ingrid Newkirk

I think if you're against cruelty and you look at what happens to animals in slaughterhouses and on factory farms, you have…

— Ingrid Newkirk

We are opposed to all cruelty, so as advocates of non-violence, opponents of oppression, people who abhor the cruelty inherent in slaughtering…

— Ingrid Newkirk

I am not a morose person, but I would rather not be here. I don't have any reverence for life, only for…

— Ingrid Newkirk

Perhaps one of the most important things you can do for human beings is wean them off an animal-based diet. It hardens…

— Ingrid Newkirk

In order to be kind, one must do. There is no point in thinking good thoughts and not acting on them. There…

— Ingrid Newkirk

It's time for the State Department to permanently change its official policy to allow all members of U.S. citizens' families - no…

— Ingrid Newkirk

Going meat-free can make a huge difference. Studies show that vegetarians are, on average, 10 to 20 pounds lighter than meat-eaters and…

— Ingrid Newkirk

PETA's campaign should be included in school curricula. If we can open children's hearts and minds to animals' needs, teach them to…

— Ingrid Newkirk

Animal hoarding was a dirty secret until hoarders appeared on our TV screens and showed how they are compelled to collect so…

— Ingrid Newkirk

If that hideousness came here, it wouldn't be any more hideous for the animals — they are all bound for a ghastly…

— Ingrid Newkirk

I have to think of the positive; that's how I cope.

— Ingrid Newkirk

Everything we do is based at adults.

— 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

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

— Ingrid Newkirk