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  • Animal liberation is also human liberation. Animal liberationists care about the quality of life for all. We recognize our kinship with all feeling beings. We identify with the powerless and the vulnerable, the victims, all those dominated, oppressed and exploited. And it is the non-human animals whose suffering is the most intense, widespread, expanding, systematic and socially sanctioned of all.

  • It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.

    Nature   Animal   Men  
    Mark Twain (2009). “Mark Twain’s Book of Animals”, p.304, Univ of California Press
  • An animal experiment cannot be justifiable unless the experiment is so important that the use of a brain-damaged human would be justifiable.

  • I don't hold animals superior or even equal to humans. The whole case for behaving decently to animals rests on the fact that we are the superior species. We are the species uniquely capable of imagination, rationality, and moral choice - and that is precisely why we are under an obligation to recognize and respect the rights of animals.

    Brigid Brophy (1966). “Don't Ever Forget: Collected Views and Reviews”, London : Cape
  • Sometimes I think that the only effective and productive method of destroying speciesism would be for each uncaring human to be forced to live the life of a cow on a feedlot, or a monkey in a laboratory, or an elephant in the circus, or a bull in a rodeo, or a mink on a fur farm. Then people would be awakened from their soporific states and finally understand the horrors that are inflicted on the animal kingdom by the vilest species to ever roam this planet: the human animal!

  • From ancient to modern times, the human animal knows how to find fighting.

  • All his life he tried to be a good person. Many times, however, he failed. For after all, he was only human. He wasn't a dog.

    Dog   Animal   Pet  
  • Very little of the great cruelty shown by men can really be attributed to cruel instinct. Most of it comes from thoughtlessness or inherited habit. The roots of cruelty, therefore, are not so much strong as widespread. But the time must come when inhumanity protected by custom and thoughtlessness will succumb before humanity championed by thought. Let us work that this time may come.

    "Memoirs of Childhood and Youth". Book by Albert Schweitzer, 1924.
  • To me, it is one world, and the non-human animals bear the brunt of oppression and suffering.

  • Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.

    George Eliot (2016). “George Eliot's Life, Complete: Top Novelist Focus”, p.226, 谷月社
  • ...In little more than a single century from 1820 to 19450, no less than fifty-nine million human animals were killed in inter-group clashes of one sort or another.... We describe these killings as men behaving "like animals," but if we could find a wild animal that showed signs of acting this way, it would be more precise to describe it as behaving like men.

    Animal   Men   Acting  
  • I think I'm very interested in people, in the way our minds work and how we navigate through the experience that is life. Very interested in people's struggles and their choices and their regrets and joys. I'm very interested in the human animal.

  • The human animal is a beast that dies but the fact that he’s dying don’t give him pity for others.

    Death   Animal   Giving  
    Tennessee Williams (1991). “The Theatre of Tennessee Williams”, p.88, New Directions Publishing
  • Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.

    Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.15, St. Martin's Press
  • Pets are humanizing. They remind us we have an obligation and responsibility to preserve and nurture and care for all life.

  • Surely it should be a matter of moral responsibility that we humans, different from other animals mainly by virtue of our more highly developed intellect and, with it, our greater capacity for understanding and compassion, ensure that medical progress slowly detaches its roots from the manure of non-human animal suffering and despair.

  • universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.

    Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.8, Publishdrive
  • There will be no justice as long as man will stand with a knife or with a gun and destroy those who are weaker than he is.

    Gun   Men   Animal  
  • We patronize the animals for their incompleteness, for their tragic fate of having taken form so far below ourselves. And therein we err, and greatly err. For the animal shall not be measured by man. In a world older and more complete than ours, they are more finished and complete, gifted with extensions of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear. They are not brethren, they are not underlings; they are other Nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time.

    Taken   Fate   Men  
    Henry Beston, Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth (2001). “The Best of Beston: A Selection from the Natural World of Henry Beston from Cape Cod to the St. Lawrence”, p.18, David R. Godine Publisher
  • but ignorance is a kind of insanity in the human animal. People who delight in torturing defenseless children or tiny creatures are in reality insane. The terrible thing is that people who are madmen in private may wear a totally bland and innocent expression in public.

    Akira Kurosawa (2011). “Something Like An Autobiography”, p.83, Vintage
  • I think a human animal is far more wild and unpredictable and dangerous and destructive than any other animal.

  • The aim of education is to make the pupil like and dislike what he ought....The little human animal will not at first have the right responses. It must be trained to feel pleasure, liking, disgust, and hatred at those things which really are pleasant, likable, disgusting, and hateful.

  • Until we have courage to recognize cruelty for what it is - whether its victim is human or animal - we cannot expect things to be much better in the world. There can be no double standard. We cannot have peace among men whose hearts find delight in killing any living creature. By every act that glorifies or even tolerates such moronic delight in killing, we set back the progress of humanity.

    Peace   War   Heart  
    "Rachel Carson: Legacy and Challenge", ed. Lisa H. Sideris and Kathleen Dean Moore Albany: State University of New York Press, (p. 102), 2008.
  • We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form.

    Cousin   Animal   Rights  
    Outspoken Essays: Second Series "The Idea of Progress" (1922)
  • Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.

    "Time Enough for Love". Book by Robert A. Heinlein, 1973.
  • Survival is for the human animal; fear the motivation. For the spiritual being survival is irrelevant. Curiosity, compassion and creativity are the name of the game; unconditional love the motivation.

  • The human animal differs from the lesser primates in his passion for lists.

    Passion   Animal   Totems  
  • Religion is still useful among the herd - that it helps their orderly conduct as nothing else could. The crude human animal is in-eradicably superstitious, and there is every biological reason why they should be. Take away his Christian god and saints, and he will worship something else.

  • Every animal has his or her story, his or her thoughts, daydreams, and interests. All feel joy and love, pain and fear, as we now know beyond any shadow of a doubt. All deserve that the human animal afford them the respect of being cared for with great consideration for those interests or left in peace.

    Pain   Animal   Joy  
    "Every Week There is More Reason to Feel Empathy for Animals" by Ingrid Newkirk, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 17, 2009.
  • Dogs never bite me. Just humans.

    "Music for Chameleons (A Beautiful Child)". Book by Truman Capote, 1980.
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