Animals Quote by Cass R. Sunstein

Animal rights can be as extreme as not riding a horse, or not wearing leather, not having a pet at all. Animal welfare advocates…

— Eric Goode

“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

“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

To attribute rights to animals is to ignore the purpose and justification of rights - to protect the interests of man.

— Alex Epstein

What do you actually mean when you say human rights? Animals don't have rights in that sense.

— Princess Michael of Kent

“Animals are property. There are laws that supposedly protect animal interests in being treated “humanely,” but that term is interpreted in large part to…

— Gary L. Francione

Animals have few rights, but they have every right to be here

— Anthony Douglas

“As the English historian Marc Gold wrote in 1995, “The term animal rights is nothing more than a useful kind of shorthand for a…

— Paul Waldau

People say, "Oh, we ought to fight for animal rights." We fought for human rights, but even if humans have rights, they can still…

— Jane Goodall

If an animal has any rights at all, it's got the right not to be eaten.

— Gary L. Francione

Strictly speaking, my interest is not in legal rights for animals but in a change of heart towards animals.

— J. M. Coetzee

I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being.

— Abraham Lincoln