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| Ask the experimenters why they experiment on animals, and the answer is: "Because the animals are like us." Ask the experimenters why it is morally okay to experiment on animals, and the answer is: "Because the animals are not like us." Animal experimentation rests on a logical contradiction. ~ Charles R. Magel |
| God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages. ~ Jacques Deval, |
| 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. ~ William Ralph Inge, |
From beasts we scorn as soulless,
In forest, field and den,
The cry goes up to witness
The soullessness of men.
~ M. Frida Hartley |
| The question is not, "Can they reason?" nor, "Can they talk?" but rather, "Can they suffer?" ~ Jeremy Bentham |
| I care not much for a man’s religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it. ~ Abraham Lincoln |
| Personally, I would not give a fig for any man’s religion whose horse, cat and dog do not feel its benefits. Life in any form is our perpetual responsibility. ~ S. Parkes Cadman |
| No one in the world needs a mink coat but a mink. ~ Murray Banks |
| Never wear anything that panics the cat. ~ P.J. O’Rourke |
| Cruelty is one fashion statement we can all do without. ~ Rue McClanahan |
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| Ever occur to you why some of us can be this much concerned with animals suffering? Because government is not. Why not? Animals don’t vote. ~ Paul Harvey |
| Support your right to arm bears. ~ Cleveland Amory |
| Why should man expect his prayer for mercy to be heard by What is above him when he shows no mercy to what is under him? ~ Pierre Troubetzkoy |
| Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight. ~ Albert Schweitzer |
| Hunting is not a sport. In a sport, both sides should know they’re in the game. ~ Paul Rodriguez |
| Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals. ~ George Orwell, |
| Cockfighting was illegal in Oklahoma until 1963, when a judge ruled that chickens are not animals and therefore unprotected by anticruelty laws. ~ U.S. News & World Report |
| Animals give me more pleasure through the viewfinder of a camera than they ever did in the crosshairs of a gunsight. And after I’ve finished "shooting," my unharmed victims are still around for others to enjoy. I have developed a deep respect for animals. I consider them fellow living creatures with certain rights that should not be violated any more than those of humans. ~ Jimmy Stewart |
| If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons. ~ C.S. Lewis |
| Michael W. Fox, vice-president of the Humane Society, said that, "to call an animal with whom you share your life a ‘pet,’ is reminiscent of men’s magazines where you (a figure of speech, don’t take it personally) have the Pet of the Month." It is supposed that the continued use of the word "pet" to designate dogs or cats threatens to reduce their level of respect to the current status of twentieth century North American women. Now that’s radical. ~ The McGill Red Herring |
| People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it’s safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs. ~ Author Unknown |
| Though boys throw stones at frogs in sport, the frogs do not die in sport, but in earnest. ~ Bion, "Water and Land Animals," |
| The squirrel that you kill in jest, dies in earnest. ~ Henry David Thoreau |
| Drinking without being thirsty and making love at any time, Madame, are the only things that distinguish us from other animals. ~ Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, |
| I ask people why they have deer heads on their walls. They always say because it’s such a beautiful animal. There you go. I think my mother is attractive, but I have photographs of her. ~ Ellen DeGeneres |
| When a man wantonly destroys one of the works of man we call him a vandal. When he destroys one of the works of god we call him a sportsman. ~ Joseph Wood Krutch |
| The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of a gun. ~ P.G. Wodehouse |
| If you love animals called pets, why do you eat animals called dinner? ~ As seen on a shirt at veganstore.com |
| The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creatures that cannot. ~ Mark Twain, |
| Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow-creatures is amusing in itself. ~ James Anthony Froude, |