Animal Quote by Ilana Mercer

Animal rights can be as extreme as not riding a horse, or not wearing leather, not having a pet at all. Animal welfare advocates…

— Eric Goode

“The phrase “animal rights” has been, and still is, employed most often to describe moral rights and social values in favor of compassion and…

— Paul Waldau

“If we understand “rights” to be legal protection against harm, then many animals already do have rights, and the idea of animal rights is…

— Cass R. Sunstein

To attribute rights to animals is to ignore the purpose and justification of rights - to protect the interests of man.

— Alex Epstein

The most important of all rights is the right to life, and I cannot foresee a day when domesticated animals will be granted that…

— J. M. Coetzee

Animals have few rights, but they have every right to be here

— Anthony Douglas

“Rights have to be asserted. Animals cannot make such assertions. We have to make representations to ourselves on their behalf.”

— Christopher Hitchens

There is animal rights and animals rights organizations like PETA, then there's animal welfare, which is very different than animal rights.

— Eric Goode

The animal rights cause is something close to my heart and something I truly believe in.

— Alissa White-Gluz

What do you actually mean when you say human rights? Animals don't have rights in that sense.

— Princess Michael of Kent

In the law, rights are islands of empowerment. . . . Rights contain images of power, and manipulating those images, either visually or linguistically,…

— Patricia J. Williams

A growing and increasingly influential movement of philosophers, ethicists, law professors and activists are convinced that the great moral struggle of our time will…

— Michael Pollan