89 Quotes by James Cromwell

Pets are humanizing. They remind us we have an obligation and responsibility to preserve and nurture and care for all life.

What is magnificent about humans is when they decide to turn and stand. If they respond with non-violence on principle and hold their ground, they are really magnificent.

Often we're recreating what we think we're supposed to be as human beings. What we've been told we're supposed to be, instead of who we authentically are. The key about the creation of full self-expression is to be authentically who you are, to project that.

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.

There is something intrinsically, systemically wrong with white, western culture, and if we don't fix it, it won't continue.

But if you really want to learn about life, get a cat. The way I think people should relate to animals is with a cat. Because the world is his.

I drove through the stockyards of Texas on a motorcycle. It doesn't let you escape what surrounds you and what it smells like and feels like - and what hit me was the realization that something that was alive and had feelings will suffer before a piece of it is placed on our plates.

We don't need to eat anyone who would run, swim, or fly away if he could.

The health of the planet is at stake, because the cruelty and the waste that accompanies the slaughter of billions of animals each year literally infects us all. We could consume healthy plant-based food produced at almost infinitely less cost. What does that say, really, about us and what we're doing... to animals and to ourselves?