Animal Rights Quotations
Authors that have more than 2 quotes:
Albert Schweitzer,
Mark Twain
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| Get a feel for fur: Slam your fingers in a car door. |
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| I think animal testing is a terrible idea; they get all nervous and give the wrong answers. |
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| People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it's safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs. |
| - Unknown Author |
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| I had bought two male chimps from a primate colony in Holland. They lived next to each other in separate cages for several months before I used one as a [heart] donor. When we put him to sleep in his cage in preparation for the operation, he chattered and cried incessantly. We attached no significance to this, but it must have made a great impression on his companion, for when we removed the body to the operating room, the other chimp wept bitterly and was inconsolable for days. The incident made a deep impression on me. I vowed never again to experiment with such sensitive creatures. |
| - Christian Barnard |
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| The animal shall not be measured by man. In a world older and more complete than ours, they move finished and complete, gifted with extension of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear. They are not brethren; they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendor and travail of the earth. |
| - Henry Beston |
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| Beyond domestic animals and our response to their fealty and affection, we have a peculiar charge concerning the wild animals which supply our clothes, food and adornments. |
| - S. Parkes Cadman |
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| Personally, I would not give a fig for any man's religion whose horse, cat and dog do not feel its benefits. Life in any form is our perpetual responsibility. |
| - S. Parkes Cadman |
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| There is no fundamental difference between man and the higher mammals in their mental faculties.... The difference in mind between man and the higher animals, great as it is, certainly is one of degree and not of kind. The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man. We have seen that the senses and intuitions, the various emotions and faculties, such as love, memory, attention and curiosity, imitation, reason, etc., of which man boasts, may be found in an incipient, or even sometimes a well-developed condition, in the lower animals. |
| - Charles Darwin |
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| I ask people why they have deer heads on their walls. They always say because it's such a beautiful animal. There you go. I think my mother is attractive, but I have photographs of her. |
| - Ellen DeGeneres |
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| Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages. |
| - Thomas Alva Edison |
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| I abhor vivisection with my whole soul. All the scientific discoveries stained with innocent blood I count as of no consequence. |
| - Mahatma Gandhi |
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| Every year tens of thousands of animals suffer and die in laboratory tests of cosmetics and household products... despite the fact that the test results do not help prevent or treat accidental or purposeful misuse of the products. Please join me in using your voice for those whose cries are forever sealed behind the laboratory doors. |
| - Woody Harrelson |
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| Ever occur to you why some of us can be this much concerned with animals suffering? Because government is not. Why not? Animals don't vote. |
| - Paul Harvey |
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| Deliberate cruelty to our defenceless and beautiful little cousins is surely one of the meanest and most detestable vices of which a human being can be guilty. |
| - William Ralph Inge |
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| We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form. |
| - William Ralph Inge |
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| Terms like that, "Humane Society," are devised with people like me in mind, who don't care to dwell on what happens to the innocent. |
| - Barbara Kingsolver |
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| When a man wantonly destroys one of the works of man we call him a vandal. When he destroys one of the works of god we call him a sportsman. |
| - Joseph Wood Krutch |
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| If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons. |
| - C.S. Lewis |
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| I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it. |
| - Abraham Lincoln |
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| This tendency [to cruelty] should be watched in them [children], and if they incline to any such cruelty, they should be taught the contrary usage. For the custom of tormenting and killing other animals will, by degrees, harden their hearts even towards men.... And they, who delight in the suffering and destruction of inferior creatures, will not be apt to be very compassionate or benign to those of their own kind. Children should from the beginning be brought up in an abhorrence of killing or tormenting living beings.... And indeed, I think people from their cradles should be tender to all sensible creatures.... All the entertainment and talk of History is of nothing but fighting and killing; and the honour and renown that is bestowed on conquerors, who, for the most part, are but the great butchers of mankind, further mislead youth. |
| - John Locke |
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| The sort of man who likes to spend his time watching a cage of monkeys chase one another, or a lion gnaw its tail, or a lizard catch flies, is precisely the sort of man whose mental weakness should be combatted at the public expense, and not fostered. |
| - Henry Louis Mencken |
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| Never wear anything that panics the cat. |
| - P.J. O'Rourke |
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| Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals. |
| - George Orwell |
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| Because the heart beats under a covering of hair, of fur, feathers, or wings, it is, for that reason, to be of no account? |
| - Jean Paul Richter |
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| Hunting is not a sport. In a sport, both sides should know they're in the game. |
| - Paul Rodriguez |
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| To a man whose mind is free there is something even more intolerable in the sufferings of animals than in the sufferings of man. For with the latter it is at least admitted that suffering is evil and that the man who causes it is a criminal. But thousands of animals are uselessly butchered every day without a shadow of remorse. If any man were to refer to it, he would be thought ridiculous. And that is the unpardonable crime. |
| - Romain Rolland |
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| Dogs are getting bigger, according to a leading dog manufacturer. |
| - Leo Rosten |
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| The human spirit is not dead. It lives on in secret.... It has come to believe that compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind. |
| - Albert Schweitzer |
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| Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight. |
| - Albert Schweitzer |
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| Very little of the great cruelty shown by men can really be attributed to cruel instinct. Most of it comes from thoughtlessness or inherited habit. The roots of cruelty, therefore, are not so much strong as widespread. But the time must come when inhumanity protected by custom and thoughtlessness will succumb before humanity championed by thought. Let us work that this time may come. |
| - Albert Schweitzer |
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| We must fight against the spirit of unconscious cruelty with which we treat the animals. Animals suffer as much as we do. True humanity does not allow us to impose such sufferings on them. It is our duty to make the whole world recognize it. Until we extend our circle of compassion to all living things, humanity will not find peace. |
| - Albert Schweitzer |
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| Vivisection is a social evil because if it advances human knowledge, it does so at the expense of human character. |
| - George Bernard Shaw |
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| When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when the tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity. |
| - George Bernard Shaw |
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| As often as Herman had witnessed the slaughter of animals and fish, he always had the same thought: in their behaviour toward creatures, all men were Nazis. The smugness with which man could do with other species as he pleased exemplified the most extreme racist theories, the principle that might is right. |
| - Isaac Bashevis Singer |
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| There will be no justice as long as man will stand with a knife or with a gun and destroy those who are weaker than he is. |
| - Isaac Bashevis Singer |
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| Those who wish to pet and baby wild animals "love" them. But those who respect their natures and wish to let them live normal lives, love them more. |
| - Edwin Way Teale |
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| The squirrel that you kill in jest, dies in earnest. |
| - Henry David Thoreau |
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| Heaven is by favor; if it were by merit your dog would go in and you would stay out. Of all the creatures ever made [man] is the most detestable. Of the entire brood, he is the only one... that possesses malice. He is the only creature that inflicts pain for sport, knowing it to be pain. |
| - Mark Twain |
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| I am not interested to know whether vivisection produces results that are profitable to the human race or doesn't.... The pain which it inflicts upon unconsenting animals is the basis of my enmity toward it, and it is to me sufficient justification of the enmity without looking further. |
| - Mark Twain |
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| It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions. |
| - Mark Twain |
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| The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creatures that cannot. |
| - Mark Twain |
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| People must have renounced, it seems to me, all natural intelligence to dare to advance that animals are but animated machines.... It appears to me, besides, that [such people] can never have observed with attention the character of animals, not to have distinguished among them the different voices of need, of suffering, of joy, of pain, of love, of anger, and of all their affections. It would be very strange that they should express so well what they could not feel. |
| - Voltaire |
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| Animals can communicate quite well. And they do. And generally speaking, they are ignored. |
| - Alice Walker |
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| The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men. |
| - Alice Walker |
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| The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of a gun. |
| - P.G. Wodehouse |
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