354 Quotes About Animal-rights

If we are not given the option to live without violence, we are given the choice to center our meals around harvest or slaughter, husbandry or war. We have chosen slaughter. We have chosen war. That's the truest version of our story of eating animals.Can we tell a new story?

Men are the devils of the earth, and the animals are the tormented souls.- On Religion

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 incalculably great impoverishment of human spirit.

You kill life and call it an act of religion. Then what is irreligion?

Americans care more about the rights of animals than about what happens to us!

If our ethical code makes a purely arbitrary distinction between humans and all other species, then we have a code based on naked selfishness devoid of any higher principle.

Human beings are important only to the survival of the human race.

The lives of anymals matter not just to us—not just in light of our selfish interest in diversity—but to them.

Imagine the pain of having your infant taken away from you to be killed while you’re used for your milk—cows have that exact same feeling, I guarantee you.”-Shenita Etwaroo