Ingrid Newkirk Quotes About Animal Rights
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Pet ownership is an absolutely abysmal situation brought about by human manipulation.
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One day, we would like an end to pet shops and the breeding of animals.
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Businesses are terrified. They have no idea what I'm going to do next.
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It is dangerous to engage in even the most innocuous-seeming discourse with the FBI/ Homeland Security/ a local detective.
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I find that as I get older I seem to become more of a Luddite... And hearing animal experimenters describe me as a Luddite--which used to think I was not. And now I think Ned Lud had the right idea and we should have stopped all the machinery way back when, and learned to live simple lives.
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Winners don't eat wieners.
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Humans have grown like a cancer. We're the biggest blight on the face of the earth.
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Would I rather the research lab that tests animals is reduced to a bunch of cinders? Yes.
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If my father had a heart attack it would give me no solace at all to know his treatment was first tried on a dog.
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Six million Jews died in concentration camps, but six billion broiler chickens will die this year in slaughter houses.
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The best bet for the horses would be to stop betting on the Derby and other horse races, and to stop breeding, racing and killing thoroughbreds altogether
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When it comes to having a central nervous system, and the ability to feel pain, hunger, and thirst, a rat is a pig is a dog is a boy.
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Perhaps the mere idea of receiving a nasty missive will allow animal researchers to empathize with their victims for the first time in their lousy careers. I find it small wonder that the laboratories aren't all burning to the ground. If I had more guts, I'd light a match.
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Eating meat is primitive, barbaric, and arrogant.
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Probably everything we do is a publicity stunt ... we are not here to gather members, to please, to placate, to make friends. We're here to hold the radical line.
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Even painless research is fascism, supremacism...
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Our nonviolent tactics are not as effective. We ask nicely for years and get nothing. Someone makes a threat, and it works.
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A burning building doesnt help melt peoples hearts, but times change and tactics, Im sure, have to change with them. If you choose to carry out ALF-style actions, I ask you to please not say more than you need to, to think carefully who you trust, to learn all you can about how to behave if arrested, and so to try to live to fight another day.
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Even if animal tests produced a cure for AIDS, we'd be against it.
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I am not a morose person, but I would rather not be here. I don't have any reverence for life, only for the entities themselves. I would rather see a blank space where I am. This will sound like fruitcake stuff again but at least I wouldn't be harming anything.
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We’re looking for good lawsuits that will establish the interests of animals as a legitimate area of concern in law.
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We are complete press sluts.
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Medical research is "immoral even it it's essential."
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A rat is a pig is a dog is a boy. They're all animals.
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...no movement for social change has ever succeeded without 'the militarism component'....Thinkers may prepare revolutions, but bandits must carry them out
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