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- Becoming a vegetarian is not merely a symbolic gesture. Nor is it an attempt to isolate oneself from the ugly realities of the world, to…
- If a being suffers there can be no moral justification for refusing to take that suffering into consideration. No matter what the nature of the…
- Pain is pain, and the importance of preventing unnecessary pain and suffering does not diminish because the being that suffers is not a member of…
- People tend to care about dogs because they generally have more experience with dogs as companions; but other animals are as capable of suffering as…
- There has been opposition to experimenting on animals for a long time. This opposition has made little headway because experimenters, backed by commercial firms that…
- It may be thought justifiable to require tests on animals of potentially life-saving drugs, but the same kinds of tests are used for products like…
- As for cages themselves, an ordinary citizen who kept dogs in similar conditions for their entire lives would risk prosecution for cruelty. A pig producer…
- With the eventual acceptance of Darwin's theory we reach a modern understanding of nature, one which has since then changed in detail rather than in…
- ...chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, and orangutans are thinking, self-aware beings, capable of planning ahead, who form lasting social bonds with others and have a rich social…
- Should one break in and free the animals? That is illegal, but the obligation to obey the law is not absolute. It was justifiably broken…
- Habits of thought lead us to brush aside descriptions of cruelty to animals as emotional, for "animal-lovers only"; or if not that, then anyway the…
- It would be nonsense to say that it was not in the interests of a stone to be kicked along the road...A stone has no…
- The statement "I am in pain" may be one piece of evidence for the conclusion that the speaker is in pain, but it is not…
- Sometimes animals may suffer more because of their more limited understanding. If, for instance, we are taking prisoners in wartime we can explain to them…
- ...the proposed air force and army experiments were designed so that many animals would suffer and die without any certainty that this suffering and death…
- If animals are no longer quite outside the moral sphere, they are still in a special section near the outer rim. Their interests are allowed…
- It is an indication of the extent to which people are now isolated from the animals they eat that children brought up on storybooks that…
- The newspapers do little better. Their coverage of nonhuman animals is dominated by "human interest" events like the birth of a baby gorilla at the…
- Even people who are aware that the traditional family farm has been taken over by big business interests, and that some questionable experiments go on…
- Whatever the reason, for most of the present century, the literature and publicity of the old established [animal welfare] groups made a significant contribution to…
- No consideration at all is given to the interests of the "pests" - the very word "pest" seems to exclude any concern for the animals…
- Once we ask why it should be that all human beings - including infants, the intellectually disabled, criminal psychopaths, Hitler, Stalin, and the rest -…
- We ought to consider the interests of animals because they have interests and it is unjustifiable to exclude them from the sphere of moral concern;…
- If penicillin had been judged by its toxicity to guinea pigs, it might never have been used by man.
- If zoos are like arks, then rare animals are like passengers on a voyage of the damned, never to find a port that will let…
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- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
- Man is by nature a political animal. — Aristotle
- To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult. — Isaac Asimov
- If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men… — Francis of Assisi
- People are not going to care about animal conservation unless they think that animals are worthwhile. — David Attenborough
- There are some four million different kinds of animals and plants in the world. Four million different solutions to the problems of… — David Attenborough
- Birds are the most popular group in the animal kingdom. We feed them and tame them and think we know them. And… — David Attenborough
- The only way to save a rhinoceros is to save the environment in which it lives, because there's a mutual dependency between… — David Attenborough
- I'm not a propagandist, I'm not a polemicist; my primary interest is just looking at and trying to understand how animals work. — David Attenborough
- I'm not an animal lover if that means you think things are nice if you can pat them, but I am intoxicated… — David Attenborough
- If you watch animals objectively for any length of time, you're driven to the conclusion that their main aim in life is… — David Attenborough
- Steve Irwin did wonderful conservation work but I was uncomfortable about some of his stunts. Even if animals aren't aware that you… — David Attenborough