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- 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;…
- What is there about the notion of a person, at law, that makes every living member of the species Homo sapiens a person, irrespective of…
- Racists violate the principle of equality by giving greater weight to the interests of members of their own race when there is a clash between…
- So far as this argument is concerned nonhuman animals and infants and retarded humans are in the same category; and if we use this argument…
- Pain and suffering are in themselves bad and should be prevented or minimized, irrespective of the race, sex, or species of the being that suffers.…
- By ceasing to rear and kill animals for food, we can make so much extra food available for humans that, properly distributed, it would eliminate…
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- I have always striven to raise the voice of hope for a world where hate gives way to respect and oppression to… — Theodore Bikel
- Nothing goes further toward a man's liberation than the act of surviving his need for character. — John Ciardi
- Revenge only engenders violence, not clarity and true peace. I think liberation must come from within. — Sandra Cisneros
- In our desire to impose form on the world and our lives we have lost the capacity to see the form that… — Colin Gunton
- I do not share the crusading spirit of the professional atheist whose fervor is mostly due to a painful act of liberation… — Albert Einstein
- ...but we also know that to be educated, the goal of it must be human liberation-liberation enabling each of us to fulfill… — Hillary Clinton
- The war against hunger is truly mankind's war of liberation. — John F. Kennedy
- Liberation means you don't have to be silenced. — Toni Morrison
- The most exciting thing about women's liberation is that this century will be able to take advantage of talent and potential genius… — Helen Reddy
- When I care about black liberation, it is because I care about white liberation. — Desmond Tutu
- It is only on the basis of undiluted Nationalism and of perfect justice and impartiality that the Indian Army of Liberation can… — Subhas Chandra Bose
- The People's Liberation Army is always a fighting force. Even after countrywide victory, our army will remain a fighting force during the… — Mao Zedong