Animals Quote by 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

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

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

The matter of the abuse and cruelty we inflict on other animals has to fight for our attention in what sometimes seems an already…

— Desmond Tutu

Our economic order is tightly woven around the exploitation of animals, and while it may seem easy to dismiss concern about animals as the…

— Bob Torres

Cruelty to animals is an enormous injustice; so is expecting those on the lowest rung of the economic ladder to do the dangerous, soul-numbing…

— Victoria Moran

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

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

You know, we all oppose animal cruelty. But sometimes we forget that animals on farms suffer and feel pain like all other animals. They,…

— Charlotte Ross

The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated

— Mahatma Gandhi

The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. I hold that the more…

— Anonymous

Our treatment of animals, in every department, is deeply and systematically immoral. Becoming a vegetarian is only the most minimal ethical response to the…

— Colin McGinn