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  • Shame on such a morality that is worthy of pariahs, and that fails to recognize the eternal essence that exists in every living thing, and shines forth with inscrutable significance from all eyes that see the sun!

    Life   Eye   Equality  
  • In appropriate circumstances we are justified in using humans to achieve goals (or the goal of assisting animals).

    Animal   Goal   Justified  
  • So many gods, so many creeds, so many paths that wind and wind while just the art of being kind is all the sad world needs.

    God   Art   Kindness  
    'The World's Need'
  • Animals are being exploited in such an unbelievable way; it's not acceptable. PETA is trying to get your attention, and they're successful at it. ... If you talk to people who grew up on a farm, they'll tell you that they had an experience where they were taking care of a cow, and one day their parents took it away and killed it. It's a torturous experience for them, and that's when they became hard. People are taught to be grown-up or whatever, and that's dumb. That bond they had with that cow or chicken was real.

  • He [man] abuses equally other animals and his own species, the rest of whom live in famine, languish in misery, and work only to satisfy the immoderate appetite and the still more insatiable vanity of this human being who, destroying others by want, destroys himself by excess.

    Animal   Men   Vanity  
  • I'm totally into veganism and animal rights, but I'm not into being an angry and judgmental activist.

  • They [Greenpeace] forgot their original purpose and turned into a big, rich bureaucracy, more interested in fund-raising than in saving lives, so I got fed up and quit... they're a bunch of wimps.

    Animal   Wimps   Purpose  
  • It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.

    Nature   Animal   Men  
    Mark Twain (2009). “Mark Twain’s Book of Animals”, p.304, Univ of California Press
  • Mercy to animals means mercy to mankind.

    Mean   Animal   Pet  
  • We don't give a damn what you or anybody else on this planet thinks. We didn't sink those ships for you. We did it for the whales.

  • An animal experiment cannot be justifiable unless the experiment is so important that the use of a brain-damaged human would be justifiable.

  • When I was in my teens I had a series of intensely religious experiences. They deepened my sense of God as the creator of all things. And they also deepened my sensitivity towards creation itself so that concern for God's creatures and animal rights followed from that. Some people think I'm an animal rights person who just happens, almost incidentally, to be religious. In fact, it's because I believe in God that I'm concerned about God's creatures. The religious impulse is primary.

  • I had bought two male chimps from a primate colony in Holland. They lived next to each other in separate cages for several months before I used one as a [heart] donor. When we put him to sleep in his cage in preparation for the operation, he chattered and cried incessantly. We attached no significance to this, but it must have made a great impression on his companion, for when we removed the body to the operating room, the other chimp wept bitterly and was inconsolable for days. The incident made a deep impression on me. I vowed never again to experiment with such sensitive creatures.

    Heart   Sleep   Animal  
  • 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 are the superior species. We are the species uniquely capable of imagination, rationality, and moral choice - and that is precisely why we are under an obligation to recognize and respect the rights of animals.

    Brigid Brophy (1966). “Don't Ever Forget: Collected Views and Reviews”, London : Cape
  • True benevolence or compassion, extends itself through the whole of existence and sympathizes with the distress of every creature capable of sensation.

    Joseph Addison (1795). “Interesting anecdotes, memoirs, allegories, essays, and poetical fragments; tending to amuse the fancy, and inculcate morality”
  • I am only one, But still I am one.

    "The Book of Good Cheer : A Little Bundle of Cheery Thoughts‎" by Edwin Osgood Grover, (p. 28), 1909.
  • Every time a police agency pepper-sprays or uses pain-compliance holds against our people, their cars should burn.

    Pain   Animal   Agency  
  • We have no ethical obligation to preserve the different breeds of livestock produced through selective breeding One generation and out. We have no problems with the extinction of domestic animals. They are creations of human selective breeding.

  • (The animal rights movement) should be supported by all Christians. In an ecological universe, every created entity has intrinsic value because all are subjects as well as objects. As we cover more and more of the earth with our factories/ highways/ towns/parking lots, we annihilate more and more plants and animals.

  • As soon as we lose the moral basis, we cease to be religious. There is no such thing as religion over-riding morality. Man, for instance, cannot be untruthful, cruel or incontinent and claim to have God on his side.

    Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.72, A&C Black
  • All great movements, it is written, go through three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption. It is the realisation of this third stage, adoption, that requires our passion and our discipline, our hearts and our heads. The fate of animals is in our hands.

    Passion   Heart   Fate  
    Tom Regan (1987). “The struggle for animal rights”, Intl Society for Animal
  • The eating of meat extinguishes the seed of Great Kindness.

  • True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power.

    "The Unbearable Lightness of Being". Book by Milan Kundera, 1984.
  • When I did 'Babe' I wanted to talk about animal rights without going through some convoluted justifications about using animal products.

    Animal   Rights   Babe  
  • On leather jackets: That's the next step. You have to take one step at a time. It was easier to start with fur.

  • Very little of the great cruelty shown by men can really be attributed to cruel instinct. Most of it comes from thoughtlessness or inherited habit. The roots of cruelty, therefore, are not so much strong as widespread. But the time must come when inhumanity protected by custom and thoughtlessness will succumb before humanity championed by thought. Let us work that this time may come.

    "Memoirs of Childhood and Youth". Book by Albert Schweitzer, 1924.
  • We fill the slaughterhouses daily with screams of fear and pain.

    Pain   Animal   Scream  
  • The optimum human population of earth is zero.

  • Animal rights is a part of my everyday life. When you live by example, you create a certain level of awareness. Friends of mine - people I have never discussed animal rights or vegetarianism with - are adopting vegetarian habits because they see it.

    "Fake leather please!". Interview for Daily News and Analysis, www.dnaindia.com. November 14, 2006.
  • What we must do is start viewing every cow, pig, chicken, monkey, rabbit, mouse, and pigeon as our family members.

    Pigs   Rabbits   Monkeys  
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