Animal Rights Quotes - Page 20

• 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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• The Truth must be told at all costs, no matter how unpopular it may be. The authentic spiritual leader, having freed himself of his own false need to be popular, tells the Truth whether it falls on fertile or stony ground. Such a teacher is the salt of the earth, though few know it. If you think the world is delirious as is, you would find it intolerable without his healing influence.

  Vernon Howard

  Spiritual, Teacher, Fall

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• An infallible characteristic of meanness is cruelty. Men who have practiced tortures on animals without pity, relating them without shame, how can they still hold their heads among human beings?

  Samuel Johnson

  Animal, Men, Shame

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• SIR,-Your letter of February the 18th came to hand on the 1st instant; and the request of the history of my physical habits would have puzzled me not a little, had it not been for the model with which you accompanied it, of Doctor Rush's answer to a similar inquiry. I live so much like other people, that I might refer to ordinary life as a history of my own. Like my friend the Doctor, I have lived temperately, eating very little animal food, and that not as an aliment, so much as a condiment for the vegetables, which constitute my principle diet.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Animal, Doctors, Hands

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoirs, 4: Correspondence and Private Papers”, p.321

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• The habit of shedding blood, or even of seeing it shed, corrupts all sentiment of humanity.

  Constantin-Francois Chasseboeuf

  Animal, Compassion, Blood

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• In the relations of man with the animals, with the flowers, with all the objects of creation, there is a whole great ethic, scarcely perceived as yet, which will at length break through into the light, and which will be the corollary and the complement to human ethics.

  Victor Hugo

  Flower, Animal, Ethics

  "The Alps and Pyrenees".

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• Human dignity begins to assert itself only at the point where man is distinguishable from the beast by pity for it.

  Richard Wagner

  Animal, Men, Compassion

  Richard Wagner (1897). “Religion and Art”, p.210, U of Nebraska Press

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• Once admit that we have the right to inflict unnecessary suffering and you destroy the very basis of human society.

  John Galsworthy

  Animal, Compassion, Suffering

  John Galsworthy (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of John Galsworthy (Illustrated)”, p.7260, Delphi Classics

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• The Bible's emphasis is on the good treatment of animals, and not just the forbidding of cruel treatment.

  Billy Graham

  Animal, Treatment, Emphasis

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• Whenever I visit a market and see the chickens crowded together in tiny cages that give them no room to move around and spread their wings and the fish slowly drowning in the air, my heart goes out to them. People have to learn to think about animals in a different way, as sentient beings who love life and fear death. I urge everyone who can to adopt a compassionate vegetarian diet.

  Dalai Lama

  Moving, Heart, Love Life

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• In every country in the world, killing human beings is condemned. The Buddhist precept of non-killing extends even further, to include all living beings.

  Nhat Hanh

  Country, Buddhist, Animal

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• We must look deeply. When we buy something or consume something, we may be participating in an act of killing. This precept [non-killing] reflects our determination not to kill, either directly or indirectly, and also to prevent others from killing.

  Nhat Hanh

  Determination, Animal, Looks

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• Even if a bodhisattva investigates the highest wisdom, one is not a proper bodhisattva unless one applies skillful means for the benefit of other sentient beings.

  Je Tsongkhapa

  Mean, Animal, Benefits

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• Imagine sitting down to an eight ounce steak, and then, imagine the room filled wit 45 to 50 people with empty bowls...For the feed cost of your steak, each of their bowls could be filled with a cup pf cooked cereal grains.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Animal, Eight, Cereal

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• No society can make a perpetual constitution... The earth belongs always to the living generation.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Animal, Generations, Earth

  Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.596, Cambridge University Press

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• Our capitol punishment system is haunted by the demon of error- error in determining guilt, error in determining who among the guilty deserves to die... The legislation couldn't reform it. Lawmakers won't repeal it. I won't stand for it. I had to act... I am commuting the sentences of all death row inmates.

  George Ryan

  Animal, Errors, Punishment

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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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• Family organisation is broken and young animals are increasingly being denied a mother to turn to for comfort and for grooming. One of the saddest and most pathetic of farm practices - inevitable at the present time for the supply of dairy produce - is the separation of the calf from the cow at birth or soon after.

  Ruth Harrison

  Mother, Animal, Practice

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• We know from the truths of evolution and ecology that we are all related and interdependent. Anthropomorphism (crediting animals with human emotions and traits) is, however, outdated. Rather we know that we are like animals.

  Michael Fox

  Animal, Emotion, Evolution

  Michael W. Fox (1980). “One Earth, One Mind”, Coward McCann

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• The Anti-Vivisector does not deny that physiologists must make experiments and even take chances with new methods. He says that they must not seek knowledge by criminal methods, just as they must not make money by criminal methods. He does not object to Galileo dropping cannon balls from the top of the leaning tower of Pisa; but he would object to shoving off two dogs or American tourists.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Dog, Animal, Two

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• ...we sacrifice other species to our own not because our own has any objective metaphysical privilege over others, but simply because it is ours. It may be very natural to have this loyalty to our own species, but let us hear no more from the naturalists about the "sentimentality" of anti-vivisectionists. If loyalty to our own species - preference for man simply because we are men - is not sentiment, then what is?

  C. S. Lewis

  Loyalty, Sacrifice, Men

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• I'm a vegetarian and very much active in regards to how I feel about animal rights and protecting animals and giving animals a voice. But at the same time, I appreciate and respect other people's decisions to eat meat. The only thing that I hope is that people are educated, that they're aware, that they're living a conscious lifestyle.

  Abbie Cornish

  Animal, Voice, Rights

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