Animal rights activists Quote by John Durant

“We are endowed with a moral capacity that animals, plants, rocks-and many fervent ecologists-lack. We should not be dirty, wasteful or cruel. To do…

— P.J. O'Rourke

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

“Animals are property. There are laws that supposedly protect animal interests in being treated “humanely,” but that term is interpreted in large part to…

— Gary L. Francione

“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 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

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

“There are no shortcuts to moral insight. Nature is not intrinsically anything that can offer comfort or solace in human terms -- if only…

— Stephen Jay Gould

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

A civilized society must count animals as worthy of moral consideration and ethical treatment. The question is not, Can they reason? nor Can they…

— Jeremy Bentham

For at the same time many people seem eager to extend the circle of our moral consideration to animals, in our factory farms and…

— Michael Pollan

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

We ought to consider the interests of animals because they have interests and it is unjustifiable to exclude them from the sphere of moral…

— Peter Singer