Animals Quote by Peter Singer

The zoo cannot but disappoint. The public purpose of zoos is to offer visitors the opportunity of looking at animals. Yet nowherein a zoo…

— John Berger

What's the reality of being inside a zoo, for the animals and for the people who love and care for those animals? There's a…

— Thomas French

There is no excuse for keeping wild animals in amusement parks or circuses. Until our governments take action, we should avoid supporting places where…

— Peter Singer

The zoo is a place for animals to study the behaviour of human beings.

— Anonymous

Circus with animal shows should be forbidden, there are enough other thrilling options.

— Bill Kaulitz

“A good zoo is a place of carefully worked-out coincidence: exactly where an animal says to us, "Stay out!"...we say to it, "Stay in!"…

— Yann Martel

Attempts to defend amusement parks and circuses on the grounds that they 'educate' people about animals should not be taken seriously. Such enterprises are…

— Peter Singer

You ask people, 'What is the circus?' They'll say, 'Animals, clowns and acrobats!' That's what people want. If you say you don't have animals,…

— Princess Stephanie of Monaco

Animal abuse is rampant in the U.S., right under everyone's eyes, for the entertainment of the public. The brutal confinement and pain of training…

— Tippi Hedren

But for the use of physical punishment by, and fear of their oppressors, animals would never be a part of a circus.

— Richard Pryor

“I have a hatred of the taming of animals, especially large ones that are so contented in the wild. I abominate circus acts that…

— Paul Theroux

A zoo is not an ideal place for an animal - of course the best place for a chimp is the wilds of Tanzania…

— Yann Martel