Animals Quote by David Pearce

There is increasing social concern about our use of nonhumans for experiments, food, clothing and entertainment. This concern about animals reflects both our own…

— Gary L. Francione

The problem is that for almost any feature of humanity that you can name, whether it's the ability to suffer, whether it's the capacity…

— Dale Jamieson

99% of our uses of animals, including our numerically most significant use of them for food, do not involve any sort of necessity or…

— Gary L. Francione

The assumption that animals are without rights, and the illusion that our treatment of them has no moral significance, is a positively outrageous example…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Merely being human is morally significant.

— Alice Crary

“Discriminations suit animals, not humans. And yet, the unfortunate reality is, it is the humans that discriminate each other on the grounds of imaginary…

— Abhijit Naskar

“A truly civilized society establishes the values and morals which distinguish human beings from animals.”

— Hatem A. Aly

“Animal rights theory seeks to move at least some nonhumans from the “thing” side of the “person / thing” dualism over to the “person”…

— Francione, Gary L

If animals are no longer quite outside the moral sphere, they are still in a special section near the outer rim. Their interests are…

— Peter Singer

“In sum, reliance on cognitive characteristics beyond sentience to justify the use of nonhumans in experiments requires either that we assume that these characteristics…

— Francione, Gary L

“In demonstrating that humans behave with justice, tolerance, reason, love toward other forms of life, we are doing no more than demanding that humans…

— Edward Abbey

The line we draw between animals that are socially acceptable and those we find repugnant can be awfully arbitrary.

— Alexandra Harney