I am just trying to make the best possible case for the animals. That is clearly what I have been put on… — Ingrid Newkirk Animal Copy Share Image
At PETA, we often say that the issue of how animals are treated isn't just about them; it's about us, how we… — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
Six million Jews died in concentration camps, but six billion broiler chickens will die this year in slaughter houses. — Ingrid Newkirk Animal activist Copy Share Image
Probably everything we do is a publicity stunt ... we are not here to gather members, to please, to placate, to make… — Ingrid Newkirk Animal Copy Share Image
If my father had a heart attack, it would give me no solace at all to know his treatment was first tried… — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
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 Animal Copy Share Image
Every time we consume meat, eggs or dairy foods, we contribute to ecological devastation and the wasteful misuse of resources on a… — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
I don't use the word 'pet.' I think it's speciest language. I prefer 'companion animal.' We would no longer allow... pet shops...… — Ingrid Newkirk Animal Copy Share Image
Animals aren't any better equipped to survive an emergency than humans are. Few people missed the fact that after Hurricane Katrina, people… — Ingrid Newkirk Animal Copy Share Image
I find that as I get older I seem to become more of a Luddite... And hearing animal experimenters describe me as… — Ingrid Newkirk Animal Copy Share Image
By adopting a wonderful mutt, you'll save a life and help reduce animal homelessness while also boosting your chances of a more… — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
Every animal has his or her story, his or her thoughts, daydreams, and interests. All feel joy and love, pain and fear,… — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
Since we can't count on the meat, egg, and dairy industries to protect animals from the most egregious forms of cruelty, what… — Ingrid Newkirk Animal Copy Share Image
The bottom line is that people dont have the right to manipulate or to breed dogs and cats ... If people want… — Ingrid Newkirk Animal Copy Share Image
We have to be aggressive when those we stick up for have no voice. I don't consider it radical to say cruelty… — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
A burning building doesnt help melt peoples hearts, but times change and tactics, Im sure, have to change with them. If you… — Ingrid Newkirk Action Copy Share Image
It's interesting that one of the definitions of the word 'human' is 'sympathetic.' More and more people are beginning to show that… — Ingrid Newkirk Beginning Copy Share Image
Elephants have the largest brains of any mammal on the face of the Earth. They are creative, altruistic and kind. — Ingrid Newkirk Brain Copy Share Image
The extinction of Homo Sapiens would mean survival for millions, if not billions, of Earth-dwelling species. Phasing out the human race will… — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
When it comes to having a central nervous system, and the ability to feel pain, hunger, and thirst, a rat is a… — Ingrid Newkirk Ability Copy Share Image
I plan to send my liver somewhere in France, to protest foie gras (liver pate) ... I plan to have handbags made… — Ingrid Newkirk France Copy Share Image
All tyranny, bigotry, aggression, and cruelty are wrong, and whenever we see it, we must never be silent. — Ingrid Newkirk Aggression Copy Share Image
It's the 21st century. It's healthier for us, better for the environment and certainly kinder to be a vegetarian. — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
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 Animal Copy Share Image
Pigeon racing is a lousy, greedy, and often unlawful activity. One thing that it is not is kind to birds. — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
Our nonviolent tactics are not as effective. We ask nicely for years and get nothing. Someone makes a threat, and it works. — Ingrid Newkirk Animal Copy Share Image
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 Care Copy Share Image
It is dangerous to engage in even the most innocuous-seeming discourse with the FBI/ Homeland Security/ a local detective. — Ingrid Newkirk Animal Copy Share Image
When we build an attractive home, we raze land on which animals have already built their homes. They have nowhere to go. — Ingrid Newkirk Animal Copy Share Image
Even painless research is fascism, supremacism, because the act of confinement is traumatizing in itself. — Ingrid Newkirk Confinement Copy Share Image
[I believe] that animals have a worth in and of themselves, and that they are not inferior to human beings but rather… — Ingrid Newkirk Animal Copy Share Image
Although we have, in theory, abolished human slavery, recognized women's rights, and stopped child labor, we continue to enslave other species who,… — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
If Vice President Al Gore advocated killing rabbits to see if women are pregnant and called it a step forward for science,… — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
Being asked to support humane meat means being asked to support the suffering of animals in transport, to approve of treatment that… — Ingrid Newkirk Animal Copy Share Image
We are not in the home finding business, although it is certainly true that we do find homes from time to time… — Ingrid Newkirk Animal Copy Share Image
Seriously, I think everybody needs to be more disciplined; nobody needs any meat. But from a perspective of how many animals suffer,… — Ingrid Newkirk Animal Copy Share Image
![“[I believe] that animals have a worth in and of themselves, and that they are not inferior to human beings but rather just different from us, and that they really don't exist for us nor do they belong to us...it should not be a question of how they should be treated within the context of their…” quote by Ingrid Newkirk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9a9/ingrid-newkirk-3962_animal_i-believe-that-animals-have-a-worth-in-a_2942608.png)
![“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... Yeah; but then again if you could hurt ten people to save 100 people and there was no option, what would you do? I can't really address that.” quote by Ingrid Newkirk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/23f/ingrid-newkirk-3962_addresses_if-it-s-anything-that-s-going-to-result_2710087.png)
