Animal Rights Quotes

Animal Rights Quote of the day

Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.

Auschwitz begins wherever someone looks at a slaughterhouse and thinks: they’re only animals.

He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.

I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being.

If you want to know where you would have stood on slavery before the Civil War, don’t look at where you stand on slavery today. Look at where you stand on animal rights.

The vegan lifestyle is a compassionate way to live that supports life, supports fairness and equality, and promotes freedom.

I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men.

A human being has been given an intellect to make choices, and we know there are other food sources that do not require the killing of a creature that would protest being killed.

In their behavior toward creatures, all men are Nazis. Human beings see oppression vividly when they're the victims. Otherwise they victimize blindly and without a thought.

If a kid ever realized what was involved in factory farming, they would never touch meat again.

Humanity's true moral test, its fundamental test…consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals.

The only good cage is an empty cage.

Intelligence is the ability of a species to live in harmony with its environment.

When people go within and connect with themselves, they realize they are connected to the universe and they are connected to all living things.

I'm an animal rights activist because I believe we won't have a planet if we continue to behave toward other species the way we do.

Our treatment of animals, in every department, is deeply and systematically immoral. Becoming a vegetarian is only the most minimal ethical response to the magnitude of the evil.

People get offended by animal rights campaigns. It's ludicrous. It's not as bad as mass animal death in a factory.

Animal Rights is now the greatest Social Justice issue since the abolition of slavery.

All things are connected like the blood which unites one family.

Eating meat is primitive, barbaric, and arrogant.

A rattlesnake loose in the living room tends to end all discussion of animal rights.

Although other animals may be different from us, this does not make them LESS than us

Make ethical choices in what we buy, do, and watch. In a consumer-driven society our individual choices, used collectively for the good of animals and nature, can change the world faster than laws.

Often, the greater our ignorance about something, the greater our resistance to change.

Christianity is our foe. If animal rights is to succeed, we must destroy the Judeo-Christian religious tradition.

It's really important to me to show the interconnectedness of things. I always try to illustrate how environmentalism, humanitarianism, animal rights - all those things - are one and the same.

When you start with a necessary evil, and then over time the necessity passes away, what's left?

What we see in the world around us is just a reflection of what is inside of us.

I believe in animal rights, human rights, land rights, water rights, air rights.

No matter whether it's someone from the political left or right, we just need a voice to stand up and defend animal rights.

People need to be educated so that they can make intelligent moral choices

This is a revolution, damn it! We're going to have to offend somebody!

A cat is nobody's fool.

I vowed never again to experiment with such sensitive creatures.

Animal rights activists gives disillusioned feminists an excuse to go back to being women protecting wee creatures without compromising their radical credentials

I believe in animal rights, and high among them is the right to the gentle stroke of a human hand.

Cruelty must be whitewashed by a moral excuse, and pretense of reluctance.

Animals have rights, to be smothered with garlic and butter!

Being a humanitarian, supporting animal rights activists, human rights activists, it's all the same.

I can't remember when I wasn't an animal rights activist.

Animals have few rights, but they have every right to be here

I'd say that animal rights and environmental issues have always been at the forefront of my mind.

The prescription of the equality of human beings is not a description of an alleged actual equality among humans: it is a prescription of how we should treat human beings.

In order to be a teacher you've got to be a student first

My body is not a tomb for animals.

It's a moral question about whether we have the right to exterminate species.

We should stop bringing more domestic animals into existence.

Getting arrested is fun.

He who sees cruelty and does nothing about it is himself cruel.

We cannot talk simultaneously about animal rights and the 'humane' slaughter of animals.