Quotes About Speciesism

#1. Speciesism: A failure, in attitude or practice, to accord any nonhuman being equal consideration and respect

Joan Dunayer

#2. Speciesism is morally objectionable because, like racism, sexism, and heterosexism, it links personhood with an irrelevant criterion. Those who reject speciesism are committed to rejecting racism, sexism, heterosexism, and other forms of discrimination as well.

Gary L. Francione

#3. Racism was not a problem on the DIscworld, because - what with trolls and dwarfs and so on - speciesism was more interesting. Black and white lived in perfect harmony and ganged up on green.

Terry Pratchett

#4. We will, at some point, reflect back at our rampant acceptance of speciesism with profound regret. Our journey to understanding that all demonstrations of life possess equal value is a slow and harrowing one.

Ian Somerhalder

#5. You can train any animal into any behavior on cue if it's a natural behavior to begin with. Racism, sexism, speciesism - all natural human behaviors. They can be triggered any time by any unscrupulous yahoo with a pulpit. A child could do it.

Karen Joy Fowler

#6. Just as we reject racism, sexism, ageism, and heterosexism, we reject speciesism. The species of a sentient being is no more reason to deny the protection of this basic right than race, sex, age, or sexual orientation is a reason to deny membership in the human moral community to other humans.

Gary L. Francione

#7. When I look out into your faces, you know what I see? I see a little bit of Elvis in each and every one of you out there.

Mojo Nixon

#8. Each of us is trapped in a place, a time and a circumstance and our attempt to use our mind to transcend those boundaries are more often than not ineffective.

Daniel M. Gilbert

#9. These enthusiasts often like to hang signs that say "Gone Fishin'" or "Gone Huntin'". But what these slogans really mean is "Gone Killing.

Marc Bekoff

#10. The moment you accept responsibility for EVERYTHING in your life, is the moment you gain the power to change ANYTHING in your life.

Hal Elrod

#11. Most frequently asked question at my AI talks: Will robots be conscious?

We slaughter 60 billion animals/year, but are concerned for robots?

Piero Scaruffi

#12. Why [..] should the boundary of sacrosanct life match the boundary of our species?

Peter Singer

#13. How many would protest if restaurants began serving puppy and kitten flesh instead of calves? Robins instead of hens? Squirrels instead of pigs?

Mango Wodzak

#14. I need to be touched emotionally and physically.

Amanda Mosher

#15. 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

#16. Although other animals may be different from us, this does not make them LESS than us

Marc Bekoff

#17. What I need is to express my passion for life ... It's movement I'm interested in, the life in me, the life in humanity.

Juliette Binoche

#18. Let the man stand on his feet. Let religion cease to be occasional; and the pulses of thought that go to the borders of the universe, let them proceed from the bosom of the Household.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#19. To be ethical is to endeavor to find one's proper place in the larger scheme of things rather than to seek to assert human superiority over the natural world.

Gary Steiner

#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