Animal Rights Quotes - Page 19

• Letting cats and dogs have litters is tantamount to shooting shelter animals in the head since it kills their chances of adoption. Please do the right thing and spay or neuter your animals.

  Steven Morrissey

  Dog, Cat, Animal

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• I don't believe there is any justifiable reason for killing any animal unless perhaps if it's killing you! That would be negotiable.

  Chrissie Hynde

  Believe, Animal, Would Be

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• Morally speaking, we should be concerned for our whole environment.

  Dalai Lama

  Animal, Environment, Should

  Dalai Lama XIV (1995). “My Tibet”, p.53, Univ of California Press

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• The greatest thrill is not to kill- but to let live.

  James Oliver Curwood

  Peace, Animal, Thrill

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• And so, with a boundless heart should one cherish all living beings.

  Gautama Buddha

  Heart, Animal, Cherish

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• Veganism gives us all the opportunity to say what we "stand for" in life- the ideal of healthy, humane living. Add decades to your life, with a clear conscience as a bonus.

  Donald Watson

  Life, Health, Animal

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• One cannot get to animal rights by trampling on human rights.

  Andrew Linzey

  Animal, Rights, Humans

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• Animals are complicated and so is the animal-rights opposition. It's hard to read motives in animals, and hard to read motives in politics.

  Bette Ford

  Animal, Rights, Complicated

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• My own experience has taught me not to underestimate the power of those who protest against cruelty. I'd also say that there may be a tendency to view the animal-rights opposition in somewhat distorted fashion as a new development, as the product of a very recent enlightenment about the rights due to animals.

  Bette Ford

  Fashion, Animal, Rights

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Put a small child in a playpen with an apple and a bunny. If s/he eats the apple and plays with the bunny, s/he's normal;but if s/he eats the bunny and plays with the apple, I'll buy you a new car. Somewhere along the line we must have been TAUGHT to do the wrong thing.

  Maynard James Keenan

  Children, Animal, Play

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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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• If that means going onto their farms, releasing their animals and burning the place to the ground, that's morally justifiable, in our opinion...There were always innocent people who got hurt somewhere along the way but it was important that those who oppressed one group of people be stopped, and we don't see the animal liberation struggle being substantially different from these other struggles.... A sustained campaign against a particular industry or a particular organization has the potential to be quite effective.

  Jerry Vlasak

  Hurt, Struggle, Mean

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• ...no movement for social change has ever succeeded without 'the militarism component'....Thinkers may prepare revolutions, but bandits must carry them out

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Animal, May, Revolution

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• Throughout the late '80s, me and a handful of friends just like you people here, we started to break windows, we started to slash tires, we started to rescue animals from factory farms and vivisection breeders, and we graduated to breaking into laboratories . As long as we emptied the labs of animals, they were still easily replaced. So that's when the ALF in this country, and my cell, started engaging in arson.

  Rod Coronado

  Country, Animal, Cells

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• 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

  Taken, Animal, Rights

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• Animal Rights is now the greatest Social Justice issue since the abolition of slavery.

  Philip Wollen

  Animal, Rights, Abolition Of Slavery

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• The only creature on earth whose natural habitat is a zoo is the zookeeper.

  Robert Breault

  Zoos, Animal, Earth

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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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• Dogs are getting bigger, according to a leading dog manufacturer.

  Leo Rosten

  Funny, Dog, Humorous

  Leo Calvin Rosten (1972). “Rome wasn't burned in a day: the mischief of language”

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• The definition of obscenity on the newsstands should be extended to many hunting magazines.

  Wayne Pacelle

  Hunting, Magazines, Definitions

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• Would I rather the research lab that tests animals is reduced to a bunch of cinders? Yes.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Animal, Research, Labs

  "New York Daily News" Newspaper, December 7, 1997.

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• A burning building doesnt help melt peoples hearts, but times change and tactics, Im sure, have to change with them. If you choose to carry out ALF-style actions, I ask you to please not say more than you need to, to think carefully who you trust, to learn all you can about how to behave if arrested, and so to try to live to fight another day.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Heart, Fighting, Thinking

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• The point at which society moves towards our views is a point where we are significantly closer to the vegan world that we are all working toward.

  Bruce Friedrich

  Moving, Views, World

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• I despise 'animal welfare.' That's like saying, 'Let's beat the slaves three times a week instead of five times a week'.

  Gary Yourofsky

  Animal, Three, Slave

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• The very people who shudder over the cruelty of the hunter are apt to forget that slaughter, in the grimmest sense of the word, is a process they entrust daily to the butcher; and that unlike the game of the forests, even the dumbest creatures of the slaughterhouse know what is in store for them.

  Lewis Mumford

  Animal, Games, People

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