Animal Rights Vegan Quotes

#1. The Utopians feel that slaughtering our fellow creatures gradually destroys the sense of compassion, which is the finest sentiment of which our human nature is capable.

Thomas More

#2. I've been an animal rights activist and a vegan for 28 years. The entire time, I've asked myself: How do I best advance an animal rights agenda?

Moby

#3. I became a vegetarian after realizing that animals feel afraid, cold, hungry and unhappy like we do. I feel very deeply about vegetarianism and the animal kingdom. It was my dog Boycott who led me to question the right of humans to eat other sentient beings.

Cesar Chavez

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

Marc Bekoff

#5. Look a pig in its eyes, and understand the truth behind bacon.

Mango Wodzak

#6. 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

#7. Back in the eighties, people thought a vegan was someone from Vegas. It's a different world now and I feel lucky to have been a part of the revolution, both for animal rights and gay rights.

Dan Mathews

#8. We have to speak up on behalf of those who cannot speak for themselves.

Peter Singer

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

Gary L. Francione

#10. If you eat animals, you don't love animals; you love to eat them." - Andrew Kirschner, Ed.D.

Andrew Kirschner

#11. See this abdicated beast, once king
Of them all, nibble his claws:
Not anger enough left - no, nor despair -
To break his teeth on the bars.

Cecil Day-Lewis

#12. I'm a proud vegan, whistle-blower, and animal rights activist.

Steve-O

#13. Becoming vegan is the most important and direct change we can immediately make to save the planet and its species.

Chris Hedges

#14. Kindness and compassion towards all living things is a mark of a civilized society. Conversely, cruelty, whether it is directed against human beings or against animals, is not the exclusive province of any one culture or community of people.

Cesar Chavez

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

Karen Davis

#16. We don't "crave" animal-based meat, dairy, and eggs, but we do crave fat, salt, flavor, texture, and familiarity.

Colleen Patrick-Goudreau

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

Gary L. Francione

#18. I was a vegan for about a year, and it was a great experience. And I became vegan not because of animal rights. I became vegan for a year for health purposes ... It was just kind of a detox that I was going through.

Tia Mowry

#19. Feed two birds with one crumb.

Mischa Temaul

#20. Meat is a 4-legged word.

Mango Wodzak

#21. After you have witnessed the reality, you can no longer look at a piece of steak, and simply think "yum".

Mango Wodzak

#22. I waited for him to come out. He didn't. I considered going in after him, but knew the fact that I had readied myself to kill him did not mean that he had readied himself to die.

Derrick Jensen

#23. I'm all in favor of animal rights, but I'd like to see the food movement take a much stronger stand in defense of basic human rights. If you're a vegan or a vegetarian, you should care about the people who are picking your fruits and vegetables by hand.

Eric Schlosser

#24. We need, in a special way, to work twice as hard to help people understand that the animals are fellow creatures, that we must protect them and love them as we love ourselves.

Cesar Chavez

#25. Only when we have become nonviolent towards all life will we have learned to live well with others.

Cesar Chavez

#26. We know we cannot be kind to animals until we stop exploiting them
exploiting animals in the name of science, exploiting animals in the name of sport, exploiting animals in the name of fashion, and yes, exploiting animals in the name of food.

Cesar Chavez

#27. If modern civilised man had to keep the animals he eats, the number of vegetarians would rise astronomically.

Christian Morgenstern

#28. Poor animals, how jealously they guard their bodies, for to us is merely an evening's meal, but to them is life itself.

T. Casey Brennan

#29. A reduction of meat consumption by only 10% would result in about 12 million more tons of grain for human consumption. This additional grain could feed all of the humans across the world who starve to death each year- about 60 million people!

Marc Bekoff

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

Robert Cheeke