354 Quotes About Animal-rights

Especially when it comes to animals used for food, humanity’s reasoning power and concern about fairness plummets.

Our treatment of animals, in every department, is deeply and systematically immoral. Becoming a vegetarian is only the most minimal ethical response to the magnitude of the evil.

One's interest or need does not annul other's right.

People need to be educated so that they can make intelligent moral choices

Animals overwork only when they are working for humans.

Humans as a whole are but an unwholesome hole with a sorry ass. In short, a**holes.

Dogs do not have many advantages over people, but one of them is extremely important: euthanasia is not forbidden by law in their case; animals have the right to a merciful death.

Si chinò per accarezzarmi. Fece scorrere la mano lungo la schiena e poi sotto al mento. «Ogni cane dovrebbe iniziare la giornata con una bella grattatina sotto il mento» dichiarò. Spostò la mano sopra la testa. «Posso accarezzarti qui?» mi chiese. «Sulla testa? So che non piace a tutti i cani».Rimasi immobile, e chiusi gli occhi.«Socchiudi gli occhi!» esclamò Susan. «Ottimo segno».

You always fed strays and bent down to talk to the dogs you met on the street, looking straight into their eyes as if they were old friends. (Maybe they are, you said. From another life.) You liked to go to the pound and look at them. You tried to send them messages of comfort. I couldn’t go because I started crying the one time I tried. All those eyes and the barks like sobs.