Nonhuman Quotes

39 Nonhuman quotes by 24 unique 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
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
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
Speciesism: A failure, in attitude or practice, to accord any nonhuman being equal consideration and respect — Joan Dunayer
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
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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