Animal Quote by Peter Singer

“As I discuss in Introduction to Animal Rights: Your Child or the Dog?, we may, in the lifeboat or burning-house situation, decide to favor…

— Gary L. Francione

Once we ask why it should be that all human beings - including infants, the intellectually disabled, criminal psychopaths, Hitler, Stalin, and the rest…

— Peter Singer

So far as this argument is concerned nonhuman animals and infants and retarded humans are in the same category; and if we use this…

— Peter Singer

“What I have observed about humans and animals so far: 90% of humans around me are LUSTY, SELFISH, EGOISTIC, CUNNING, MONEY-MINDED, ARROGANT, THANKLESS, UNEMPATHETIC,…

— Kartik Kaushal

“There is a strange duality in the human which makes for an ethical paradox. We have definitions of good qualities and of bad; not…

— John Steinbeck

There is increasing social concern about our use of nonhumans for experiments, food, clothing and entertainment. This concern about animals reflects both our own…

— Gary L. Francione

The un-conscious distortion of the facts is almost harmless compared to the unconscious neglect of an animal's mental life until it verges on the…

— Edward Thorndike

What could be the basis of our having more inherent value than animals? Their lack of reason, or autonomy, or intellect? Only if we…

— Tom Regan

“In sum, reliance on cognitive characteristics beyond sentience to justify the use of nonhumans in experiments requires either that we assume that these characteristics…

— Francione, Gary L

Often people who are wonderful with animals aren't always terribly good with human beings.

— Clive Barker

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

It is absurd to talk of one animal being higher than another...we consider those, where the intellectual faculties most developed as the highest. -…

— Charles Darwin