Animal Rights Quotes - Page 17

• I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contain'd, I stand and look at them long and long.

  Walt Whitman

  Animal, Thinking, People

  Walt Whitman (2013). “Walt Whitman's Song of Myself: A Sourcebook and Critical Edition”, p.169, Routledge

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• Humans are the one species the world could do very well without.

  George Schaller

  Animal, World, Wells

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• We cannot talk simultaneously about animal rights and the 'humane' slaughter of animals.

  Gary L. Francione

  Animal, Rights, Slaughter

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• An old philosopher said to Monsieur Coignard, a Reverend Father: 'You are a pig!' To which Abad Coignard answered: 'You flatter me, sir. But unfortunately, I'm only a man.'

  Anatole France

  Father, Animal, Men

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• The reduction of the earth to an object simply for human's use/ possession is unthinkable in most traditional cultures... the earth belongs to itself and to all the component members of the community.

  Thomas Berry

  Animal, Community, Culture

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• He who sees cruelty and does nothing about it is himself cruel.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Animal, Doe, Cruelty

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• Stand still, close your eyes and listen; in the silence you can hear the cries of pain and low moans of anguish of animals waiting to die... do everything you can even if today it is just one small thing. There are no excuses for inaction, despair, egotism, or petulance that matter to the animals.

  Ashley Montagu

  Pain, Eye, Animal

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• He who is not actively kind is cruel!

  John Ruskin

  Animal, Kind

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• Please remember the hundreds of tiny empty stomachs in our communities. Winter is a tough time for birds and other small creatures as food can become buried beneath snow or frozen ground. Scatter seeds in your yard, nearby parks.

  Alex Pacheco

  Winter, Animal, Snow

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• Why who makes much of a miracle? As to me I know nothing else but miracles, whether they be animals feeding in the fields, Or, birds, or the wonderfulness of insects in the air, Or the wonderfulness of the sundown, or of stars shining so quiet and bright, Or the exquisite delicate thin curve of the new moon in spring; These, with the rest, one and all, are to me, miracles.

  Walt Whitman

  Stars, Spring, Moon

  Walt Whitman, “Miracles”

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• My view is that consciousness, the seat of "personalness," is the ultimate reality, and is also scientifically impenetrable. In other words, there is no scientific test one can postulate that would definitively prove its existence in another entity. We assume that other biological human persons, at least those who are at least acting conscious, are indeed conscious. But this too is an assumption, and this shared human consensus breaks down when we go beyond human experience (e.g., the debate on animal consciousness, and by extension animal rights).

  Ray Kurzweil

  Animal, Reality, Rights

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• He [man] abuses equally other animals and his own species, the rest of whom live in famine, languish in misery, and work only to satisfy the immoderate appetite and the still more insatiable vanity of this human being who, destroying others by want, destroys himself by excess.

  Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

  Animal, Men, Vanity

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• . . . it is difficult for Europeans to appreciate the sentiment. Other nations kill animals by wholesale and kill one another; they exist in a sea of blood. A European said that the reason why in India animals were not killed was because it was supposed that they contained the spirits of ancestors. This reason was worthy of a savage nation who are not many steps from the brute.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Animal, Blood, Sea

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3670, Manonmani Publishers

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• Men may have given millions of dollars and fed rats and cats, as some do in India. They say that men can take care of themselves, but the poor animals cannot. . .

  Swami Vivekananda

  Cat, Animal, Men

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.467, Manonmani Publishers

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• Intelligence is the ability of a species to live in harmony with its environment.

  Paul Watson

  Animal, Environment, Harmony

  "Captain Paul Watson introduced by Persia White at Worldfest". Youtube video, www.youtube.com. June 30, 2006.

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• I've got some incredible fans actually - so loyal and they make me birthday cards and Christmas cards. I got this package of poems and artwork based around Jennifer Bofinger, media spokeswoman for the animal rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, said despite the shabby treatment of deer just loves it!

  Debby Ryan

  Christmas, Animal, Rights

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• I'm an animal rights activist because I believe we won't have a planet if we continue to behave toward other species the way we do.

  James Cromwell

  Believe, Animal, Rights

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• James, the brother of the Lord ... was holy from his mother's womb; and he drank no wine nor strong drink, nor did he eat meat.

  Hegesippus

  Mother, Strong, Brother

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• When I did 'Babe' I wanted to talk about animal rights without going through some convoluted justifications about using animal products.

  James Cromwell

  Animal, Rights, Babe

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• All things of creation are children of the Father and thus brothers of man. ... God wants us to help animals, if they need help. Every creature in distress has the same right to be protected.

  Francis of Assisi

  Brother, Children, Father

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• On leather jackets: That's the next step. You have to take one step at a time. It was easier to start with fur.

  Dan Mathews

  Animal, Leather Jackets, Next Steps

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• I think it indisputable that the distance between the intellectual faculties of different men is greater than that between the same faculties in some men and some other animals.

  Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke

  Distance, Animal, Men

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• I think the rapidly growing tendency to regard animals as born for nothing except slavery to so-called humanity absolutely disgusting.

  Victor Gollancz

  Animal, Equality, Thinking

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• What I build upon I shall be told is a folly that wise men are not guilty of: I own it; but whilst it proceeds from a real passion inherent in our nature, it is sufficient to demonstrate that we are born with a repugnancy to the killing, and consequently the eating of animals; for it is impossible that a natural appetite should ever prompt us to act, or desire others to do, what we have an aversion to, be it as foolish as it will.

  Sylvester Graham

  Wise, Real, Passion

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• There's no reason to drink cow's milk at any time in your life. It was designed for calves, not humans, and we should all stop drinking it today.

  Frank Oski

  Drinking, Animal, Cows

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