118 quotes found
“See this abdicated beast, once kingOf them all, nibble his claws:Not anger enough leftno, nor despairTo break his teeth on the bars.”
“Just how common do such savageries have to be for a decent person to be unable to overlook them? If you knew that one in one thousand food animals suffered actions like those described above, would...”
“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.”
“Humanity is not only great acts spending thousands, putting your name on headlines. Humanity is to be kind to every living being, to be compassionate towards all, even to the tiniest animal, seen a...”
“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.”
“There are people who have the capacity to imagine themselves as someone else, there are people who have no such capacity (when the lack is extreme, we call them psychopaths), and there are people w...”
“But those who are incapable ofpitying animals are, as a matter of fact, incapable of pitying men.A physician who would cut a living rabbit in pieces -- laying barethe nerves, denuding them with kni...”
“Do you know how hard it is to kill something? Nothing wants to die. Things cling to their lives against all hope, even when it's hopeless. It's like the end is always there, you can't escape it. Bu...”
“...there was a difference between killing for nourishment and killing for curiosity or sport.”
“Humans hunt and kill maneaters.What if animals hunted animal eaters?!”
“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.”
“Animal rights are not a gift we give to animals. They are a birthright we have taken from them.”
“If you want to know where you would have stood on slavery before the Civil War, dont look at where you stand on slavery today. Look at where you stand on animal rights.”
“Especially when it comes to animals used for food, humanitys reasoning power and concern about fairness plummets.”
“My view [is] that what morality boils down to is, 'Dont harm, and do help.' And now the question is, 'Can creatures like chickens and cows be harmed?' And the answer is, 'Of course they can.' Conse...”
“Along with people in other creative professions, such as artists and musicians, many scientists experience this transcendence. I do so every day. For one, it's impossible to look an ape in the eye ...”
“Even a wolf knows how to be polite when animalistic humans have no clue about politeness”
“Some animal rights activists are demanding vegetarianism, even veganism now, or nothing. But since only 4 or 5 percent of Americans claim to be vegetarians, 'nothing' is the far more likely outcome...”
“The most striking quality that humans and animals have in common is the capacity to experience suffering.”
“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 incal...”
