Animal Quote by Bertrand Russell Download Open image “Animal rights, taken to their logical conclusion, mean votes for oysters.” — Bertrand Russell ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Animal Animal - rights Animal Rights Animals Conclusion Logical Mean Oysters Rights Taken Vote
If an animal has any rights at all, it's got the right not to be eaten. — Gary L. Francione Copy Share Image
To attribute rights to animals is to ignore the purpose and justification of rights - to protect the interests of man. — Alex Epstein Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“If we understand “rights” to be legal protection against harm, then many animals already do have rights, and the idea of animal rights is… — Cass R. Sunstein Copy Share Image
“As the English historian Marc Gold wrote in 1995, “The term animal rights is nothing more than a useful kind of shorthand for a movement based on the recognition that non-human animals live purposeful emotional lives and are as capable of suffering as humans. … kindness and tolerance for those different and weaker than ourselves are amongst the highest possible… — Paul Waldau Copy Share
“The basis of all animal rights should be the Golden Rule: we should treat them as we would wish them to treat us, were… — Christine Stevens Copy Share Image
A growing and increasingly influential movement of philosophers, ethicists, law professors and activists are convinced that the great moral struggle of our time will… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Rights give rise to legal claims. Ultimately, the more rights animals are granted, the greater the legal lien exercised on their behalf against the… — Ilana Mercer Copy Share Image
“Some folks insist that believing in animal rights is like a religion. But religion asks followers to believe in things nobody can see, while… — Craig Burton Copy Share Image
“Rights have to be asserted. Animals cannot make such assertions. We have to make representations to ourselves on their behalf.” — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Animals are complicated and so is the animal-rights opposition. It's hard to read motives in animals, and hard to read motives in politics. — Bette Ford Copy Share Image
If the State does not acquire supremacy over [vast private] enterprises, it becomes their puppet, and they become the real State. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
That the world is in a bad shape is undeniable, but there is not the faintest reason in history to suppose that Christianity offers… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Those who advocate common usage in philosophy sometimes speak in a manner that suggests the mystique of the 'common man.' — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Such, in outline, but even more purposeless, more void of meaning, is the world which Science presents for our belief. Amid such a world,… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Dr. Arnold . . . the admired reformer of public schools, came across some cranks who thought it a mistake to flog boys. Anyone… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Of all evils of war the greatest is the purely spiritual evil: the hatred, the injustice, the repudiation of truth, the artificial conflict. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
If an opinion contrary to your own makes you angry, that is a sign that you are subconsciously aware of having no good reason… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I cannot escape from the conclusion that the great ages of progress have depended upon a small number of individuals of transcendent ability. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I think it would be just to say the most essential characteristic of mind is memory, using this word in its broadest sense to… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The newspapers at one time said that I was dead but after carefully examining the evidence I came to the conclusion that this statement… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I was 3-years-old - to this day it is a vivid memory. My family and I were on a boat, catching fish. As one… — Joaquin Phoenix Copy Share Image
Animals know nothing of themselves, and they also know nothing of the world. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
When grubbing for necessities man is still an animal. He becomes uniquely human when he reaches out for the superfluous and extravagant. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“What does it mean to be a self-conscious animal? The idea is ludicrous, if it is not monstrous. It means to know that one… — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
We must love animals in such a powerful way that we should reject to eat them! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
This brings me back to the image of Kafka standing before a fish in the Berlin aquarium, a fish on which his gaze fell… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Animal rights without veganism is like human rights with slavery. It makes no sense. None whatsoever. — Gary L. Francione Copy Share Image
It’s a small thing to help one animal, but to that one animal it’s a big thing — Gene Baur Copy Share Image
Even with clothing naked animals, there were people who wanted to send in money. A woman in Santa Barbara, California, sent a $40,000 check.… — Alan Abel Copy Share Image
We're not very dangerous animals; we don't have a horn like a rhino or quills like a porcupine. — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
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