354 Quotes About Animal-rights

Just like an actor’s name sinks into oblivion when people stop watching his films, if we refuse to engage in any form of animal cruelty then these inhumane things can’t survive long.

By stepping out of the picture and refusing to purchase consumer items necessitating bloody murder, you are not only washing your hands to it all [the animal holocaust], but helping toward cleaning up the planet from the mess we have made of it.

The assumption that animals are without rights and the illusion that our treatment of them has no moral significance is a positively outrageous example of Western crudity and barbarity. Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.

We must fight against the spirit of unconscious cruelty with which we treat the animals. Animals suffer as much as we do. True humanity does not allow us to impose such sufferings on them. It is our duty to make the whole world recognize it. Until we extend our circle of compassion to all living things, humanity will not find peace.

Humanity's true moral test, its fundamental test…consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals.

I think using animals for food is an ethical thing to do, but we've got to do it right. We've got to give those animals a decent life and we've got to give them a painless death. We owe the animal respect.

When you start with a necessary evil, and then over time the necessity passes away, what's left?

The only good cage is an empty cage.

We have to speak up on behalf of those who cannot speak for themselves.