Animals Quote by Frans de Waal

To be well used, creatures and places must be used sympathetically, just as they must be known sympathetically to be well known...The "animal scientist"…

— Wendell Berry

People are being forced to confront the realities. At the same time, we have an ever-growing understanding of the intelligence and emotional capacities of…

— Wayne Pacelle

To endow animals with human emotions has long been a scientific taboo. But if we do not, we risk missing something fundamental, about both…

— Frans de Waal

Animal rights activists talk about cruelty and torture, some backing their assertions by publishing out-of-date photographs of 'experiments' banned long ago. This is a…

— Robert Winston

“People seem to deny the existence of animal emotions so that they can continue to justify inhumane treatment and exploitation and avoid the fact…

— Stacey O'Brien

As a society, we are typically deeply disassociated from animal cruelty, but more than ever, animal protection organizations are telling the backstory. People are…

— Wayne Pacelle

“In accepting as two primary texts, Singer's Animal Liberation and Regan's The Case for Animal Rights--texts that valorize rationality--the animal defense movement reiterates a…

— Carol J. Adams

It's bad biology to rob nonhuman animals of their emotional lives.

— Marc Bekoff

It seems to me of great importance to teach children respect for life. Towards this end, experiments on living animals in classrooms should be…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Religion, media and schools tell us to disregard animals, view them as commodities, property and resources, and convince us that animals cannot think clearly,…

— Gary Yourofsky

We should venture on the study of every kind of animal without distaste; for each and all will reveal to us something natural and…

— Aristotle

Scientists are scientists. They're not really in a position to speak clearly on the moral dimensions, and they're not really comfortable doing that.

— Naomi Oreskes