Animals Quote by Michael Shermer

I passionately feel that as long as we view ourselves as superior and other animals as exploitable our consciousness will remain stuck in a…

— Sharon Gannon

Animals are not ours to eat, wear, experiment on, use for entertainment or for any exploitative purpose.

— Sharon Gannon

I don't hold animals superior or even equal to humans. The whole case for behaving decently to animals rests on the fact that we…

— Brigid Brophy

Cruelty to animals is one of the most significant vices of a low and ignoble people. Wherever one notices them, they constitute a sign…

— Anonymous

“We are not encouraged, on a daily basis, to pay careful attention to the animals we eat. On the contrary, the meat, dairy, and…

— Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson

“Cruelty to dumb animals is one of the distinguishing vices of low and base minds. Wherever it is found, it is a certain mark…

— William Jones

Animal cruelty is one of the most unfortunate and barbaric demonstrations of human beings manipulating ill conceived notions of ‘power’ over other species.

— Ian Somerhalder

Socially inferior animals are the ones that make the most strenuous, resourceful efforts to get to know their keepers. They prove to be the…

— Yann Martel

We don’t like to think of ourselves as prey—it is a lessening thought—but the truth is that in our arrogance and so-called knowledge we…

— Gary Paulsen

“Especially when it comes to animals used for food, humanity’s reasoning power and concern about fairness plummets.”

— Karen Davis

“We have created a false dichotomy between behaviors attributable to companion animals and those of other species that blinds us to the inherent worth…

— Bob Torres

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