Human And Animal Rights Quotes

#1. We, animal and human, come to this time and space to have an experience embedded with our own divine purpose.

Amy Miller

#2. 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

#3. Wild animals are only wild to save their existence...for their survival; but human animals are wild to do harm to their own species

Munia Khan

#4. 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

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

Robert Breault

#6. If you are low on self confidence and your life sucks, become a vegetarian. You will nag on other human beings and hate them so much for abusing animals that you would have no free time to remember how miserable your own life is!

Hamidreza Bagheri

#7. Americans care more about the rights of animals than about what happens to us!

Joe Sacco

#8. I think human self-hatred may be the great untold story of the millennium. It's the common thread linking deep ecology and animal rights, the love and money we lavish on pets, the uneasy longing for extraterrestrials to be meddling with us.

Annie Gottlieb

#9. People say, "Oh, we ought to fight for animal rights." We fought for human rights, but even if humans have rights, they can still be horribly abused and are every day. You don't have to go to some far off land, far away place; we have a lot of child abuse in our own society.

Jane Goodall

#10. My life is a tsunami of inspirations. Number one [is that] I really do just love my BBQ. I mean it's the sustenance of mankind. You know, the animal rights [of] people, if they had their way, 99% of the human race would parish because we sustain ourselves with dead stuff on the grill.

Ted Nugent

#11. Dogs do not have many advantages over people, but one of them is extremely important: euthanasia is not forbidden by law in their case; animals have the right to a merciful death.

Milan Kundera

#12. Animal liberationists do not separate out the human animal, so there is no rational basis for saying that a human being has special rights. A rat is a pig is a dog is a boy. They're all mammals.

Ingrid Newkirk

#13. As long as humans feel they are forced to defend their own rights and worth by placing someone beneath them, oppression will not end.

Marjorie Spiegel

#14. I'm not an activist; I don't look for controversy. I'm not a political person, but I'm a person with compassion. I care passionately about equal rights. I care about human rights. I care about animal rights.

Ellen DeGeneres

#15. Until we consider animal life to be worthy of the consideration and reverence we bestow upon old books and pictures and historic monuments, there will always be the animal refugee living a precarious life on the edge of extermination, dependent for existence on the charity of a few human beings.

Gerald Durrell

#16. If possessing a higher degree of intelligence does not entitle one human to use another for his or her own ends, how can it entitle humans to exploit non-humans?

Peter Singer

#17. Even a wolf knows how to be polite when animalistic humans have no clue about politeness

Munia Khan

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

Rod Coronado

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

Abraham Lincoln

#20. 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

#21. We feel that animals have the same rights as retarded human nchild because they are equal mentally in terms of dependence on others.

Alex Pacheco

#22. Our treatment of animals and our attitude toward them are crucial not only to any pretensions we have to ethical behavior but the humankind's intellectual and moral evolution. Which is how the human animal is meant to evolve, isn't it?

Joy Williams

#23. The indifference, callousness, and contempt that so many people exhibit toward animals is evil first because it results in great suffering towards animals, and second because it results in an incalculably great impoverishment of human spirit.

Ashley Montagu

#24. 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.

Peter Singer

#25. One day the absurdity of the almost universal human belief in the slavery of other animals will be palpable. We shall then have discovered our souls and become worthier of sharing this planet with them.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#26. I had a couple of experiences as a kid with animals where I hurt them, kind of unintentionally, and when I saw that a human being can hurt an animal it really affected me. And my kids ... they became animal rights activists.

Sean Astin

#27. If chimpanzees have consciousness, if they are capable of abstractions, do they not have what until now has been described as 'human rights'? How smart does a chimp have to be before killing him constitutes murder?

Carl Sagan

#28. 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

#29. To be full of being is to live as a body-soul. One name for the experience of full being is joy.

J.M. Coetzee

#30. 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

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

Daryl Hannah

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

Gary L. Francione

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

Zoe Rosenberg

#34. 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