Nonhuman Quotes

39 quotes by 24 authors

We all move on the fringes of eternity and are sometimes granted vistas through fabric of illusion. Many refuse to admit it: I feel a… — Ansel Adams
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… — Peter Singer
To me, a philosopher who says that the distinction between human and nonhuman depends on whether you have a white or a black skin, and… — J M Coetzee
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… — Peter Singer
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… — Peter Singer
We are all animals of this planet. We are all creatures. And nonhuman animals experience pain sensations just like we do. They too are strong,… — Joaquin Phoenix
The mode of consciousness of nonhuman species is quite different from human consciousness. — J M Coetzee
I don't have a hands-on fondness for animals. I did not grow up bonded to any particular nonhuman animal. I like them and I pet… — Wayne Pacelle
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… — Peter Singer
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… — Peter Singer
Our knowledge and understanding of nonhuman animals is polluted far more than we acknowledge by our belief in our own superiority, our unrecognized cultural programming,… — Will Tuttle
Speciesism is a failure to empathize with those outside one's group. In general, speciesists simply disregard the myriad nonhumans whom humans intentionally hurt and kill.… — Joan Dunayer
If we compare a severely defective human infant with a nonhuman animal, a dog or a pig, for example, we will often find the nonhuman… — Peter Singer
Surely there will be some nonhuman animals whose lives, by any standards, are more valuable than the lives of some humans. — Peter Singer
Truthfulness under oath is, by now, a matter of our civic religion, our relation to our fellow citizens rather than our relation to a nonhuman… — Richard Rorty
In what terms should we think of these beings, nonhuman yet possessing so very many human-like characteristics? How should we treat them? Surely we should… — Jane Goodall
We declare that only man exists. This is not to say that material, inorganic nature and nonhuman beings-animals and plants-are in any sense unreal, insubstantial,… — Medard Boss
Humans treat animals as things that exist as means to human ends. Â That's morally wrong. Sexism promotes the idea that women are things that… — Gary L. Francione
They are nonhuman persons. They are not food. If animals matter morally at all, there is one and only one rational response: go vegan. Everything… — Gary L. Francione
Veganism is the application of the principle of abolition in your own life; it represents your recognition that animals are not things. Veganism is the… — Gary L. Francione

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24 authors contributed a total of 39 Nonhuman Quotes as follows: