Nonhuman Quotes
39 Nonhuman quotes by 24 unique authors
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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
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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…
— Peter Singer
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The mode of consciousness of nonhuman species is quite different from human consciousness.
— J M Coetzee
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Surely there will be some nonhuman animals whose lives, by any standards, are more valuable than the lives of some humans.
— Peter Singer
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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Does the human intellect, or "reason," really spring us free from our inherence in the depths of this wild proliferation of forms? Or on the…
— David Abram
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Veganism must be the baseline if we are to have any hope of shifting the paradigm away from animals as things and toward animals as…
— Gary L. Francione
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Speciesism: A failure, in attitude or practice, to accord any nonhuman being equal consideration and respect
— Joan Dunayer
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As nonhuman animals, plants, and even 'inanimate' rivers once spoke to our oral ancestors, so the ostensibly “inert” letters on the page now speak to…
— David Abram
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We see quite clearly that what happens to the nonhuman, happens to the human. What happens to the outer world, happens to the inner world.
— Thomas Berry
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