Animal Ethics Quotes

#1. Apes have a wide variety of sexual arrangements. That means, by the way, that there is no such thing as an "ape legacy" that humans are doomed to live by.

Steven Pinker

#2. You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#3. The hunter who accepts the sporting code of ethics keeps his commandments in the greatest solitude, with no witness or audience other than the sharp peaks of the mountain, the roaming cloud, the stern oak, the trembling juniper, and the passing animal.

Jose Ortega Y Gasset

#4. One of my strict, strict rules is a no auto-tune policy.

Yukimi Nagano

#5. We need a boundless ethics which will include animals also.

Albert Schweitzer

#6. One's interest or need does not annul other's right.

Al-Hafiz B.A. Masri

#7. 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.

Marc Bekoff

#8. Animal factories are one more sign of the extent to which our technological capacities have advanced faster than our ethics.

Peter Singer

#9. At the bitter end of an era of liberation - women's lib, kids' lib, animal lib, and everything-but-ethics lib - America has apparently been liberated from its moral foundations. But for too many, the good life has become a living hell.

Billy Graham

#10. Flirting with random women in a tavern? That sounds like Helios. Well, it sounds like most of the gods, actually.

Rick Riordan

#11. I suggested that my patron goddess should take sensual pleasure, though I didn't put it quite in those terms.

Steven Brust

#12. The persistence of the story of animal consent into the contemporary era tells of a human appreciation of the stakes, and a desire to do the right thing.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#13. Especially when it comes to animals used for food, humanity's reasoning power and concern about fairness plummets.

Karen Davis

#14. Atheism is a way of humility. It's to think oneself to be an animal, as we are actually and to allow oneself to become human.

Andre Comte-Sponville

#15. The meaning of life is pretty clear: Living things strive to pass their genes into the future. The claim that we would not have morals or ethics without religion is extraordinary. Animals in nature seem to behave in moral ways without organized religion.

Bill Nye

#16. I feel you see every crack and bruise with black and white [pictiures] and color distracts usually from the honesty.

Nikki Sixx

#17. Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.

Baltasar Gracian

#18. Fear was stronger than ethics, stronger than judgement, stronger than responsibility, stronger than civilisation. Fear was a bolting animal trampling children underfoot as it fled from itself. Fear was a bigot, a tyrant, a coward, a red mist, a whore. Fear was a bullet pointed at his heart.

Salman Rushdie

#19. In the relations of humans with the animals, with the flowers, with all the objects of creation, there is a whole great ethic scarcely seen as yet.

Victor Hugo

#20. To give preference to the life of a being simply because that being is a member of our species would put us in the same position as racists who give preference to those who are members of their race.

Peter Singer

#21. Man is not a solitary animal, and so long as social Life survives, self-realization cannot be the supreme principle of ethics.

Bertrand Russell

#22. 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.

Colin McGinn

#23. Take those kids and raise them up, teach them how to drink out of a righteous cup.

James Brown

#24. Mercy to animals means mercy to mankind.

Henry Bergh

#25. Men will be just to men when they are kind to animals.

Henry Bergh

#26. We think of dogs as being more like people than pigs; but pigs are highly intelligent animals and if we kept pigs as pets and reared dogs for food, we would probably reverse our order of preference. Are we turning persons into bacon?

Peter Singer

#27. Because the problems are objective features of the human situation - social animals without the capacities for making social life come easily - ethics is objectively constrained. It's not the case that "anything goes".

Philip Kitcher