Animal Rights Veganism Quotes

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

Colleen Patrick-Goudreau

#2. Though the discoveries or acquisitions of man are not always adequate to the expectations of his pride, they are at least sufficient to animate his industry.

Samuel Johnson

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

Robert Cheeke

#4. 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

#5. It is not that I was credulous, simply that I belived in all things dark and dangerous. It was part of my young creed that the night was full of ghosts and witches, hungry and flapping and dressed completely in black.

Neil Gaiman

#6. When the seagulls follow the trawler, it is because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea.

Eric Cantona

#7. Don't know which one is worse, doing your own thing or just being cool.

Bob Dylan

#8. Nobody can possibly be so hungry that they need to take a life in order to feel satisfied - they don't after all, take a human life, so why take the life of an animal? Both are conscious beings with the same determination to survive. It is habit, and laziness and nothing else.

Morrissey

#9. Animal rights without veganism is like human rights with slavery. It makes no sense. None whatsoever.

Gary L. Francione

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

Mango Wodzak

#11. My little yorkie Floyd is the ultimate buddy, and his passport has as many stamps as mine.

Jessica Hart

#12. Communism has failed; capitalism has failed; common sense has failed; now has to fail stupidity.

William C. Brown

#13. Feed two birds with one crumb.

Mischa Temaul

#14. An original something, dear maid, you would wish me to write; but how shall I begin? For I'm sure I have not original in me, Excepting Original Sin.

Thomas Campbell

#15. Subjecting other living things to pain, suffering, and death is the biggest fault in the human race

Zoe Rosenberg

#16. Beyond the economics of production efficiency, animal welfare laws that require "humane" treatment are really not about animals; they're about humans and making humans feel better about using animals. We can comfort ourselves with the idea that we are acting in a "humane" way.

Gary L. Francione

#17. Animal rights are not a gift we give to animals. They are a birthright we have taken from them.

Ryan Phillips

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

Karen Davis

#19. The horse and the cow, the rabbit and the cat, the deer and the hare, the pheasant and the lark, please us better as friends than as meat.

Elisee Reclus

#20. We cannot justify treating any sentient nonhuman as our property, as a resource, as a thing that we an use and kill for our purposes.

Gary L. Francione

#21. How would we fare psychologically if the walls of slaughterhouses were made of glass?

Tom Regan

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

Chris Hedges

#23. Through my youth, there was imposed on us a culture relentlessly English. English books were all you could buy; English television filled our screens, and in consequence, England seemed to matter in a way that our world didn't.

Richard Flanagan

#24. I remember looking at the fear in her eyes. How could someone be so cruel? I thought as the hens cried. When will people realize, that other animals have just as much the right as we do.

Zoe Rosenberg

#25. Nothing lasts. Everything changes. But the changes are the same. Winter will always turn to spring.

Susan Trott

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

Mango Wodzak

#27. MILK IS COW RAPE!

Kirkland Ciccone

#28. We are the collateral damage of carnism; we pay for it with our health, our environment, and our taxes - $7.64 billion a year, to be exact.

Melanie Joy

#29. The sixteen hundred dairies in California's Central Valley alone produce more waste than a city of twenty-one million people-that's more than the populations of London, New York, and Chicago combined.

Gene Baur