354 Quotes About Animal-rights

If intelligence and capability are not criteria for the possession of rights, why would animals -who have the capacity to feel fear and pain- be excluded from our moral consideration?

Scientists treat animals like petri dishes—recording emotional distress and physiological terror like weather fluctuations on a barometer.

To be full of being is to live as a body-soul. One name for the experience of full being is joy.

Becoming vegan is the most important and direct change we can immediately make to save the planet and its species.

I've seen all kinds of things done to dolphins in my travels around the world, but I have never seen anything as horrible as this dolphin drive hunt in Taiji.

There is a blackout in media coverage of issues concerning whales and dolphins in Japan, with the exception of the government's viewpoint. It is simply amazing how little good information (and how much bad information) the public in Japan gets about the worldwide controversy over whaling and dolphin killing, all because the media bows to the wishes of the Japan Fisheries Agency.

Whenever we encounter wild animals in nature, we must only ever show kindness and compassion.

The fact that things never end well for the rest of the creatures in this world does not seem to bother the least those who think that there is a divine plan. - On the Divine Plan

The prescription of the equality of human beings is not a description of an alleged actual equality among humans: it is a prescription of how we should treat human beings.