Top 100 Quotes About Animals Rights
#1. I'm definitely an animal lover, and I stand up for all animals' rights.
Laura Mennell
#2. I just love animals, and I'm an advocate for animals rights, and my family has rescued dogs from all over the world. I don't believe in animal testing. If you see me in fur, it's always fake. Sometimes you see me wearing skulls, but those are all from roadkill
Kesha
#3. We, animal and human, come to this time and space to have an experience embedded with our own divine purpose.
Amy Miller
#4. Earl: Augh! They're trying to take the wolf off the endangered list .
Mooch: I know. But did you hear what they're putting back on the endangered list?
Earl: What?
Mooch: Empathy and compassion.
Patrick McDonnell
#5. Killing animals to make a fashion statement = a sickening + cold-blooded vanity.
Jess C. Scott
#6. ... because nobody wants to see a small creature left to suffer or left by itself out in the bushes.
P.J. Nel
#7. As long as people will shed the blood of innocent creatures there can be no peace, no liberty, no harmony between people. Slaughter and justice cannot dwell together.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
#8. If you eat animals, you don't love animals; you love to eat them." - Andrew Kirschner, Ed.D.
Andrew Kirschner
#9. Animals have few rights, but they have every right to be here
Anthony Douglas
#11. At a time when hundreds of men have been put to death without trial or any sort of evidence of guilt, and when the population literally trembles with fear, animals have rights guaranteed them which men and women cannot think of expecting.
Erik Larson
#12. Americans care more about the rights of animals than about what happens to us!
Joe Sacco
#13. I've broken an arm before, but no one wanted to shoot me!' Suzie says. 'I mean, when you go to the emergency room I hope to God the doctors don't decide it might cost too much to care for.' -Suzie Schwab co-owner of East Maui Animal Refuge
Toni Polancy
#14. 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
#15. Being kind to animals is not enough. Avoiding cruelty is not enough. Housing animals in more comfortable, larger cages is not enough. Whether we exploit animals to eat, to wear, to entertain us, or to learn, the truth of animal rights requires empty cages, not larger cages.
Tom Regan
#16. But perhaps the most important lesson I learned is that there are no walls between humans and the elephants except those that we put up ourselves, and that until we allow not only elephants, but all living creatures their place in the sun, we can never be whole ourselves.
Lawrence Anthony
#17. 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
#18. 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
#19. Humanity evolves when we realise that animals have the same rights to the Earth as we do.
Radhanath Swami
#20. Especially when it comes to animals used for food, humanity's reasoning power and concern about fairness plummets.
Karen Davis
#21. This, for many people, is what's most offensive about hunting - to some, disgusting: that it encourages, or allows, us not only to kill but to take a certain pleasure in killing
Michael Pollan
#22. Animal rights are not a gift we give to animals. They are a birthright we have taken from them.
Ryan Phillips
#23. If we understand "rights" to be legal protection against harm, then many animals already do have rights, and the idea of animal rights is not terribly controversial.
Cass R. Sunstein
#24. Rights give rise to legal claims. Ultimately, the more rights animals are granted, the greater the legal lien exercised on their behalf against the liberty and property of people.
Ilana Mercer
#25. A growing and increasingly influential movement of philosophers, ethicists, law professors and activists are convinced that the great moral struggle of our time will be for the rights of animals.
Michael Pollan
#26. Auschwitz begins wherever someone looks at a slaughterhouse and thinks: they're only animals.
Theodor W. Adorno
#27. Who knows what the long-term effects of saving rescue dogs are and the healing lessons and love they bring to Earth? Each one of us has the capacity to influence hundreds - even thousands of people or animals through the way we live our lives.
Jadi Kindred
#28. 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
#29. I was very concerned about helping animals improve their situations. But that was out of love. It wasn't political or out of a belief that animals had rights.
Sam Simon
#30. But it had always been my mom's philosophy that the way we treat animals goes hand in hand with the way we treat people, and so she would dedicate her life to stopping men like this one, bushmeat traders hoping for sale
Eliot Schrefer
#31. We cannot talk simultaneously about animal rights and the 'humane' slaughter of animals.
Gary L. Francione
#32. We middles see the world in shades of grey rather than in the clear blacks and whites of committed animal activists and their equally vociferous opponents
Hal Herzog
#33. Animal-rights advocates remind us of this admonition: The ways in which people treat animals will be reflected in how people relate to one another.
William Greider
#35. 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
#36. The more you learn about animals and animal rights - it's an intriguing, fascinating world.
Mona Simpson
#37. The indifference of the many, combined with the active hatred of the few, has sealed the fate of animals.
Yann Martel
#38. If intelligence and capability are not criteria for the possession of rights, why would animals -who have the capacity to feel fear and pain- be excluded from our moral consideration?
Jack Norris
#39. Even if only one person's respect for animals increases, then writing Talon would have been worthwhile.
Christopher Gerard
#40. The most important of all rights is the right to life, and I cannot foresee a day when domesticated animals will be granted that right in law.
J.M. Coetzee
#42. I can't say I'm anything like a devoted animal rights activist, but I certainly oppose cruelty to animals.
Robert Paul Weston
#43. 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
#44. Gays have rights, lesbians have rights, men have rights, women have rights, even animals have rights. How many of us have to die before the community recognizes that we are not expendable?
Octavia St. Laurent
#45. We have to speak up on behalf of those who cannot speak for themselves.
Peter Singer
#46. The most striking quality that humans and animals have in common is the capacity to experience suffering.
Matthieu Ricard
#47. People need to be educated so that they can make intelligent moral choices
Gary L. Francione
#48. Even if mankind can go on without them, a piece of our vibrantly diverse world dies along with each species.
Dieter Braun
#49. The basis of all animal rights should be the Golden Rule: we should treat them as we would wish them to treat us, were any other species in our dominant position
Christine Stevens
#50. 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
#51. The assumption that animals are without rights and the illusion that our treatment of them has no moral significance is a positively outrageous example of Western crudity and barbarity. Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#52. 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
#53. Even granting that we [humans] face greater harm than laboratory animals presently endure if ... research on these animals is stopped, the animal rights view will not be satisfied with anything less than total abolition.
Tom Regan
#54. 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
#55. 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.
#56. Farmers today keep themselves in ignorance of the needs and true nature of pigs precisely because to know would put their conscience in a terrible bind. Wilful ignorance of this kind is no better than complicity.
Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
#57. There's a special place in hell for people who mistreat animals.
Tara Sue Me
#58. 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
#60. Sam was helping animals long before he was Sam Simon. He lived what he believed; his thing was making the world better and having rights for animals, and every area of his life reflected that.
Justin Baldoni
#61. Animals have rights, to be smothered with garlic and butter!
Ted Nugent
#62. Rights have to be asserted. Animals cannot make such assertions. We have to make representations to ourselves on their behalf.
Christopher Hitchens
#63. 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
#64. 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
#65. Strictly speaking, my interest is not in legal rights for animals but in a change of heart towards animals.
J.M. Coetzee
#66. 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
#67. Humans hunt and kill maneaters.
What if animals hunted animal eaters?!
Manoj Vaz
#68. Places of confinement providing free food and medical care are called prisons.
John Lilly
#69. What strikes me most of all in Christian culture, which is supposed to be concerned with the rights of the weakest, is the lack of regard toward animals. Maybe because they're thought to be soulless.
Dacia Maraini
#70. As a so-called "civilized" people, and as members of a society in search of lasting peace in the world, we cannot remain callous to our responsibility toward nature and insensitive to the inherent rights of the animals.
Nathaniel Altman
#71. 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
#72. If modern civilised man had to keep the animals he eats, the number of vegetarians would rise astronomically.
Christian Morgenstern
#73. 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
#74. Most people think that animals are third-class citizens. Very few people really see animals as "the others" with whom we inhabit this planet. They have equal rights with us.
Sigourney Weaver
#75. The vegan lifestyle is a compassionate way to live that supports life, supports fairness and equality, and promotes freedom.
Robert Cheeke
#76. To attribute rights to animals is to ignore the purpose and justification of rights - to protect the interests of man.
Alex Epstein
#78. Although other animals may be different from us, this does not make them LESS than us
Marc Bekoff
#79. 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
#80. I've brought you something to wear over your dress and I do not want to hear your views on killing animals to provide coats for the wealthy. I have it on the best authority that these ermine committed suicide.
Ann Cristy
#81. When you start with a necessary evil, and then over time the necessity passes away, what's left?
Matthew Scully
#82. Tom Regan's now classic Case for Animal Rights blends careful argument with intense moral concern. For two decades, where Regan has been taken seriously, animals have been better off and people have become better persons. This new edition is a welcome sign of this influence continuing.
Holmes Rolston III
#83. In my movies, there has been little to do in the way of animal rights. I have never worked in a movie with animals. No horse-riding, no trained dogs, lions, bears. A few actors, but what could I do? We had to have them.
Casey Affleck
#84. I think using animals for food is an ethical thing to do, but we've got to do it right. We've got to give those animals a decent life and we've got to give them a painless death. We owe the animal respect.
Temple Grandin
#85. To be a vegetarian is to disagree - to disagree with the course of things today ... starvation, cruelty - we must make a statement against these things. Vegetarianism is my statement. And I think it's a strong one.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
#86. 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.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#87. If a group of beings from another planet were to land on Earth - beings who considered themselves as superior to you as you feel yourself to be to other animals - would you concede them the rights over you that you assume over other animals?
George Bernard Shaw
#88. You wouldn't walk with your underpants stuck in your bottom, you'd adjust them. So don't treat life like ill-fitting wondering underpants, adjust it to be comfortable again
E.E.D. Horton
#89. An animal in pain is the saddest thing on Earth.
Sanober Khan
#90. The case for exploiting animals for food, clothing and entertainment often relies on our superior intelligence, language and self-awareness: the rights of the superior being trump those of the inferior.
Michael Shermer
#91. The time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look on the murder of men.
Dmitry Merezhkovsky
#92. Out there is South Dakota," Kitch had said, "Matt said they treated Fern like some kind of animal.
Karen Joy Fowler
#93. I find it poor logic to say that because women are good, women should vote. Men do not vote because they are good; they vote because they are male, and women should vote, not because we are angels and men are animals, but because we are human beings and citizens of this country.
Louisa May Alcott
#94. 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
#95. 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
#96. 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.
Immanuel Kant
#97. Thus godlike sympathy grows and thrives and spreads far beyond the teachings of churches and schools, where too often the mean, blinding, loveless doctrine is taught that animals have no rights that we are bound to respect, and were only made for man, to be petted, spoiled, slaughtered or enslaved.
John Muir
#98. 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
#99. To create a happy world, peace for men will not be enough; we need peace for animals as well!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#100. Animals can communicate quite well. And they do. And generally speaking, they are ignored
Alice Walker
