Quote by Dan Ariely

“If animals are just commodities, then we are just consumers, with no greater good than material pleasure and no higher law than appetite.”

— Matthew Scully

...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

“Often the greatest challenge of the animal welfare movement is to remind people of the things they already know to be true-that to mistreat…

— Wayne Pacelle

“    The contrariety of human nature is a subject that has given a surprising amount of occupation to makers of proverbs and to those moral…

— R. Austin Freeman

The vast carnival of cruelty called animal exploitation goes on and on - and it is all so needless, even counter-productive. There is already…

— H. Jay Dinshah

This work was strictly voluntary, but any animal who absented himself from it would have his rations reduced by half.

— George Orwell

“Especially when it comes to animals used for food, humanity’s reasoning power and concern about fairness plummets.”

— Karen Davis

It is manifestly contrary to the law of nature, however defined, that a handful of people should gorge themselves with superfluities while the hungry…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The tragedy of being both rational and animal seems to consist in having to choose between duty and desire rather than in making any…

— Anonymous

When a human being kills an animal for food, he is neglecting his own hunger for justice.

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

“Unlike captive animals, people’s perceptions of control or helplessness aren’t entirely dictated by outside forces. We have the ability to create choice by altering…

— Sheena Iyengar

It is true that the reluctance to abstain from animal food, in those who have been long accustomed to its stimulus, is so great…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley