Animal rights Quotes
A curated collection of the best quotes about Animal rights.
Top Quotes
“Vegetarianism”
“Insect suffering”
“Wild animal suffering”
“Intensive animal farming”
“Have the lower animals "rights?" Undoubtedly—if men have.”
“A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast: but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.”
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“The custom of tormenting and killing of beasts will, by degrees, harden their minds even towards men.”
“All breathing, existing, living, sentient creatures should not be slain, nor treated with violence, nor abused, nor tormented, nor driven away.”
“Humans inflict untold suffering and death on many billions of animals every year, and the overwhelming majority of humans are heavily complicit.”
“The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for whites or women for men.”
“Making lasting gifts for animals in our estate plans is perhaps the single most important thing we can do to ensure animals have the strongest possible voice for their protection.”
“A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite. And to act so is immoral.”
“Concerning speciesism, I started to believe that “liberation of animals” and “abolishment of speciesism” are issues beyond the horizon of class conflict among humans that must be tackled.”
“You have just dined, and, however scrupulously the slaughter-house is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity, — expensive races, — race living at the expense of race.”
“The least I can do is speak out for the hundreds of chimpanzees who, right now, sit hunched, miserable and without hope, staring out with dead eyes from their metal prisons. They cannot speak for themselves.”
“The thinking man must [...] oppose all cruel customs no matter how deeply rooted in tradition and surrounded by a halo. True manhood is too precious a spiritual good for us to surrender any part of it to thoughtlessness.”