“We take these animals and completely violate who they are. We use them, abuse them, and deprive them all their lives…then we cut their throats, shred them and eat them! Morally, I’m against it, ethically, I can’t justify it, and ecologically, it’s just insane. The thought of meat-eating makes me shudder. As far as wearing fur is concerned, it is the rudest, most inconsiderate, selfish and sick façade I can imagine.” I CanUseAnimalCuttingImagineEatingConcernedSickAbuseSelfishInsaneMeatJustifyThroatFurMeat EatingInconsiderate Author:River Phoenix
“Because one species is more clever than another, does it give it the right to imprison or torture the less clever species? Does one exceptionally clever individual have a right to exploit the less clever individuals of his own species? To say that he does is to say with the Fascists that the strong have a right to abuse and exploit the weak - might is right, and the strong and ruthless shall inherit the earth.” GivingDoeMightEarthIndividualStrongAnimalWeakAbusePhilosophicalSpeciesCleverTortureExploitsRuthlessFascistsMight Is Right Author:Richard D. Ryder
“Becoming a vegan is a sure way of completely avoiding participation in the abuse of farmed animals. Vegans are a living demonstration of the fact that we do not need to exploit animals for food.” WayNeedsFactsAnimalBecomingAbuseVegetarianVeganParticipationAvoidingExploitsDemonstration Book:The Ethics of What We Eat: Why Our Food Choices Matter Source: The Ethics of What We Eat: Why Our Food Choices Matter
“For too long we have occupied ourselves with responding to the consequences of cruelty and abuse and have neglected the important task of building up an ethical system in which justice for animals is regarded as the norm rather than the exception. Our only hope is to put our focus on the education of the young.” LongImportantYoungJusticeAnimalEducationFocusBuildingConsequenceTasksAbuseCrueltyExceptionEthicalNormNeglectedRespondingBuilding Up Author:John Hoyt
“To give a child animal products is a form of child abuse.” GivingChildrenFormAnimalProductsAbuseVegetarianAnimal RightsChild AbuseVegetarian HealthAnimal AbuseAbused Children Author:Neal Barnard
“These birds and animals and fish cannot speak, but they can suffer, and our God who created them, knows their sufferings, and will hold him who causes them to suffer unnecessarily to answer for it. It is a sin against their Creator.” KnowsGodSufferingSpeakCausesNatureSinAnswersAnimalLordViolenceCreatingBirdAbuseFishesCreatorCrueltyAnimal AbuseCruel World Author:George Q. Cannon
“There are two main goals behind ALF actions. The first is obviously to remove as many animals as possible from fur farms, vivisection labs, and other areas of abuse. The second is to cause as much economic damage to these industries and persons as possible.” FirstsPersonsTwoActionCausesGoalAnimalBehindsEconomicIndustryAreasAbuseDamageRemoveFarmsAnimal RightsFurLabsVivisection Author:Jerry Vlasak
“I think Dario Ringach is a poster boy for the concept that the use of force or the threat of force is an effective means to stop people who abuse animals," "No strictly peaceful movement has succeeded in liberation," "I think the animal rights movement has been restrained in its use of force, mostly because people in the struggle are often people of privilege who aren't willing to risk losing that privilege.” PeopleThinkingMeanHas BeensUseForceAnimalBoysStruggleRightsRiskMovementWillingLosingConceptsAbuseThreatPrivilegePeacefulLiberationAnimal RightsPostersUse Of Force Author:Jerry Vlasak
“He [man] abuses equally other animals and his own species, the rest of whom live in famine, languish in misery, and work only to satisfy the immoderate appetite and the still more insatiable vanity of this human being who, destroying others by want, destroys himself by excess.” MenWantHumansStillsHuman BeingsAnimalHe ManAbuseMiserySpeciesVanityAppetiteDestroyingExcessAnimal RightsFamineInsatiableLanguish Author:Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
“More often than not, what animals require our protection from is not hurricanes or fires, but abuse at the hands of other people.” PeopleHandsAnimalFireDogAbuseProtectionHurricanes Author:Julie Klam
“I know you have the capability to understand right from wrong because you hate people who harm children. Well, why not despise people who harm animals? It's hypocritical! Why protect one and violate the other when neither one wants or deserves the abuse? They just wish it would end. Stop praising the innocence in children then ignoring or making fun of the innocence in animals.” PeopleKnowsWantWellsChildrenEndsHateFunWishAnimalProtectDeserveAbusePraiseHarmInnocenceWhy NotDespiseCapabilityHypocriticalHate People Author:Gary Yourofsky
“Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.” LifeStillsCharacterPeaceGoalAnimalVirtueRightsViolenceHonestyEvolutionIntegrityHighestEthicsAbuseCrueltyVegetarianVeganAnimal RightsNonviolenceSavagesHumaneVegetarianismVeganismNon ViolencePeace WarAnimal WelfareAnimal CrueltyAnimal LoveVegetarian HealthHuman AnimalAnimal WorldHumans And AnimalsPlants And AnimalsPet AnimalsAnimal LifeAnimal CompassionAnimal EthicsAnimal AbuseCruel WorldVegan HealthAnimal TestingVegetarian DietInspirational AnimalAnimals In NatureViolence And PeaceNature And AnimalsHuman CrueltyViolence And WarFur CoatsHumane SocietyWildlife AnimalsCompassion Towards AnimalsAnimals And SocietyHarming OthersAbused AnimalsRespect LifeHuman Beings And AnimalsViolence And Cruelty Author:Thomas A. Edison
“I have seen firsthand how injustice gets overlooked when the victims are powerless or vulnerable, when they have no one to speak up for them and no means of representing themselves to a higher authority. Animals are in precisely that position. Unless we are mindful of their interests and speak out loudly on their behalf, abuse and cruelty go unchallenged.” MeanSpeakInterestAnimalPositionHigherAuthorityAbuseVictimInjusticeCrueltyVulnerablePowerlessBehalfRepresentingSpeaks OutOverlooked Author:Desmond Tutu
“Anybody can claim to be a member of the ALF when rescuing animals, destroying "tools of torture" (such as research equipment) or financially depleting a corporation that abuses animals.” AnimalMembersResearchToolsAbuseClaimsCorporationsTortureDestroyingEquipment Author:Charlotte Laws
“Vivisection is wrong because it is an abuse of man's power over the helpless, involving pain and suffering. The name for this is cruelty, and cruelty is immoral, no matter what the reason for its introduction.” MenMatterReasonPainSufferingNamesAnimalAbuseNo Matter WhatCrueltyHelplessImmoralIntroductionInvolvingExperimentationAnimal CrueltyPain And SufferingVivisection Author:Jon Evans
“The thing about animals that speaks to me so much is that my passion for the animals and against animal abuse is based on the knowledge that these creatures which think and feel can't speak for themselves. I feel it is my responsibility to speak for those who can't speak for themselves.” ThinkingFeelsPassionSpeakAnimalResponsibilityCreaturesAbuseMy PassionAnimal Abuse Author:Sam Simon
“Animal abuse is rampant in the U.S., right under everyone's eyes, for the entertainment of the public. The brutal confinement and pain of training methods of wild animals in the circus, the aquatic and theatrical shows, leads to retaliation by the animals. Eventually they find the right time to strike out, and they will.” ShowsEyePainAnimalTrainingAbuseMethodEntertainmentStrikesBrutalRight TimeCircusTheatricalWild AnimalConfinementRetaliationAnimal Abuse Author:Tippi Hedren
“Disregarding the evil of the crime, nature rewards the rapists by multiplying their genes more than those of the nonrapists. Therefore, it's plausible that evolution has selected for a predisposition in some men to engage in this behavior under certain circumstances.” MenWarSexAnimalViolenceEvolutionAbuseRape Book:Our Political Nature: The Evolutionary Origins of What Divides Us Source: Our Political Nature: The Evolutionary Origins of What Divides Us