Animal Quote by Carl Sagan

How smart does a chimp have to be before killing him constitutes murder?

— Carl Sagan

If chimpanzees have consciousness, if they are capable of abstractions, do they not have what until now has been described as 'human rights'? How…

— Carl Sagan

Recent discoveries about apes suggest, however, that a gorilla or common chimp stands at least as good a chance being murdered as the average…

— Jared Diamond

There are some circumstances, for example, where the newborn baby is severely disabled and where the parents think that it's better that child should…

— Peter Singer

“Many of us shrink from judicial execution of even the most horrible human criminals, while we cheerfully countenance the shooting without trial of fairly…

— Richard Dawkins

Visualize yourself confronted with the task of killing, one after the other, a cabbage, a fly, a fish, a lizard, a guinea pig, a…

— Konrad Lorenz

Chimpanzees are endangered. Severely.

— Russell Banks

But I know human nature, my friend, and I tell you that, suddenly confronted with the possibility of being tried for murder, the most…

— Agatha Christie

“Let's put a chimpanzee in a tiny cage fronted by concrete bars. The animal would go berserk, throw itself against the walls, rip out…

— Michel Houellebecq

Such is the breathtaking speciesism of our Christian-inspired attitudes, the abortion of a single human zygote can arouse more moral solicitude and righteous indignation…

— Richard Dawkins

“What are the chances that this first and only smart species in the history of life on Earth has enough smarts to completely figure…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

You better not mess with chimps. They are much stronger than humans.

— Jane Goodall