Nonhumans Quotes
12 quotes by 5 authors
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By accepting responsibility, we take effective steps toward our goal: an inclusive human society on a habitable planet, a society that works for all humans…
— Sharif Abdullah
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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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Veganism is about nonviolence. It is about not engaging in harm to other sentient beings; to oneself; and to the environment upon which all beings…
— Gary L. Francione
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I certainly believe that we have a moral obligation to care for the dogs, cats, and other nonhumans whose existence we have caused or facilitated…
— Gary L. Francione
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...eating animals involves an intentional decision to participate in the suffering and death of nonhumans where there is no plausible moral justification.
— Gary L. Francione
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American long for a closed society in which everything can be bought, where laborers are either hidden away or dressed up as nonhumans, so as…
— Adam Gopnik
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Compassion begets compassion, cruelty begets cruelty. What we give we will ultimately receive. Nonhumans help make us human. They teach us respect, compassion, and unconditional…
— Marc Bekoff
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Being vegan is easy. Are there social pressures that encourage you to continue to eat, wear, and use animal products? Of course there are. But…
— Gary L. Francione
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Veganism is an act of nonviolent defiance. It is our statement that we reject the notion that animals are things and that we regard sentient…
— Gary L. Francione
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To say that a being who is sentient has no interest in continuing to live is like saying that a being with eyes has no…
— Gary L. Francione
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We can no more justify using nonhumans as human resources than we can justify human slavery. Animal use and slavery have at least one important…
— Gary L. Francione
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There is increasing social concern about our use of nonhumans for experiments, food, clothing and entertainment. This concern about animals reflects both our own moral…
— Gary L. Francione
Who Wrote These Nonhumans Quotes
5 authors contributed a total of 12 Nonhumans Quotes as follows: