Best Animal Ethics Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“In 2004, the Animals in War monument outside Hyde Park in London was created by the English sculptor David Backhouse. The monument includes two life-sized bronze mules carrying supplies, as well as statues of a horse and a dog and bas-relief carvings of other animals such as camels, elephants and birds who have been used in warfare. The inscription reads: *Animals in War. This monument is dedicated to all the animals that served and died alongside British and allied forces in wars and campaigns throughout time. They had no choice.* ~ John Sorenson”

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Book:Animals and War: Confronting the Military-Animal Industrial Complex

Source: Animals and War: Confronting the Military-Animal Industrial Complex

“Increasingly we come to understand that any difference between human and nonhuman primates does not necessarily show humans in a complimentary light.”

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Book:Primate People: Saving Nonhuman Primates through Education, Advocacy, and Sanctuary

Source: Primate People: Saving Nonhuman Primates through Education, Advocacy, and Sanctuary

“[...]as tradições especistas resultam em uma gigantesca quantidade de sofrimento e de mortes, muitíssimo maior do que em todas as tradições que já vitimaram humanos em conjunto.”

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Book:Uma breve introdução à ética animal: desde as questões clássicas até o que vem sendo discutido atualmente

Source: Uma breve introdução à ética animal: desde as questões clássicas até o que vem sendo discutido atualmente

“Animals arrive at slaughter exhausted, thirsty, hungry, and terrified. Every year 100,000 factory farmed cattle arrive at slaughter injured, or too dispirited to walk; undercover investigators have repeatedly documented downed animals who are kicked, beaten, pushed with bulldozers, and dragged from transport trucks with ropes or a chain, though they are fully conscious, in pain, and bellowing pitifully. Cows exploited in the dairy industry, because they are older and their bodies have been exhausted by perpetual pregnancy, birthing, and milking, are among the most pathetic when they arrive at slaughter.”

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Book:Speaking Up for Animals: An Anthology of Women's Voices

Source: Speaking Up for Animals: An Anthology of Women's Voices

“That animals can’t be moral agents doesn’t seem to be relevant to their status as moral patients.”

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Book:Puppies, Pigs, and People: Eating Meat and Marginal Cases

Source: Puppies, Pigs, and People: Eating Meat and Marginal Cases

“Animals who are exploited for “organic” foods are raised, maintained, transported, and slaughtered just like their nonorganic” counterparts: They are debeaked, dehorned, detoed, castrated, and/or branded, and they are kept, transported, and slaughtered in the same deplorable conditions.”

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Book:Speaking Up for Animals: An Anthology of Women's Voices

Source: Speaking Up for Animals: An Anthology of Women's Voices

“We are morally required to stop systematically exploiting others, whether chimpanzees or pygmy lemurs, chickens or chinchillas. Nonhuman animals are also persons who fare better or worse depending on the way we treat them, we must begin to give them the respect and dignity that persons deserve”

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Book:Primate People: Saving Nonhuman Primates through Education, Advocacy, and Sanctuary

Source: Primate People: Saving Nonhuman Primates through Education, Advocacy, and Sanctuary

“Might does not make right; self-interest—even desperate self-interest—does not justify exploiting others.”

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Book:Primate People: Saving Nonhuman Primates through Education, Advocacy, and Sanctuary

Source: Primate People: Saving Nonhuman Primates through Education, Advocacy, and Sanctuary

“If we are going to save endangered primates, we must first recognize that they are individuals much like human beings, who prefer to be free to live their lives independent of exploitation.”

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Book:Primate People: Saving Nonhuman Primates through Education, Advocacy, and Sanctuary

Source: Primate People: Saving Nonhuman Primates through Education, Advocacy, and Sanctuary

“Our efforts to protect primates will be much more effective if we dismantle the artificial line that we have created between ourselves and other animals.”

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Book:Primate People: Saving Nonhuman Primates through Education, Advocacy, and Sanctuary

Source: Primate People: Saving Nonhuman Primates through Education, Advocacy, and Sanctuary

“And to split hairs, to claim that there is no comparison, that Treblinka was so to speak a metaphysical enterprise dedicated to nothing but death and annihilation while the meat industry is ultimately devoted to life (once its vicitms are dead, after all, it does not burn them to ash or bury them but on the contrary cuts them up and refrigerates and packs them so that they can be consumed in the comfort of our homes) is as little consoloation to those victims as it would have been - pardon the tastelesness of the following - to ask the dead of Treblinka to excuse their killers because their body fat was needed to make soap and their hair to stuff mattresses with.”

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Book:The Lives of Animals

Source: The Lives of Animals

“Nonhuman primates have been crowded out of diminishing forests, hunted for food or “medicine,” kidnapped for the lucrative pet/tourist trade, and bred for science. As a result, every primate species on the planet—aside from human beings—is either endangered or threatened.”

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Book:Primate People: Saving Nonhuman Primates through Education, Advocacy, and Sanctuary

Source: Primate People: Saving Nonhuman Primates through Education, Advocacy, and Sanctuary

“International trade in primates flourishes because we exploit primates for science.”

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Book:Primate People: Saving Nonhuman Primates through Education, Advocacy, and Sanctuary

Source: Primate People: Saving Nonhuman Primates through Education, Advocacy, and Sanctuary

“I have often wondered how empathetic women have the courage to repeatedly expose themselves to trauma—entering animal labs, factory farms, and slaughterhouses to witness and record insidious treatment of nonhuman animals—while maintaining a semblance of emotional and psychological equilibrium. Authors in this anthology provide an answer: empathic people face misery head-on, not only to bring about much-needed change but as a means of coping. In a world where unconscionable violence and pervasive injustices are the norm, they have come to see activism as the lesser of two miseries. These women have found that their only hope for peace of mind is to walk straight into that pervasive misery and work for change”

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Book:Sister Species: Women, Animals and Social Justice

Source: Sister Species: Women, Animals and Social Justice

“While it is one thing to strive for a cause that fundamentally and primarily benefits you—your freedom and equality (or the freedom and equality of those you know and care about), or for your environment (on which you depend for survival)—it is quite another matter to struggle on behalf of a cause that does not benefit you directly. As social justice activists, we must remember how ardently we wish that those in power would help bring change. The oppressed wish that those in power could empathize enough to understand the wrongness of what is happening, and how much they would need and appreciate the active participation of those in power to bring about a measure of justice. With regard to farmed animals, we are the ones who are in power. We are the ones who have the power to change our consumer habits. We are the ones who either put our money down for their lives, or boycott animal products.”

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Book:Speaking Up for Animals: An Anthology of Women's Voices

Source: Speaking Up for Animals: An Anthology of Women's Voices

“Thus godlike sympathy grows and thrives and spreads far beyond the teachings of churches and schools, where too often the mean, blinding, loveless doctrine is taught that animals have no rights that we are bound to respect, and were only made for man, to be petted, spoiled, slaughtered or enslaved.”

Source: Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays

“The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.”

“To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.”

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Author:Isaac Asimov

“If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men.”

“The thinking man must oppose all cruelties no matter how deeply rooted in tradition or surrounded by a halo.”

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Author:Albert Schweitzer

“People must have renounced, it seems to me, all natural intelligence to dare to advance that animals are but animated machines.... It appears to me, besides, that such people can never have observed with attention the character of animals, not to have distinguished among them the different voices of need, of suffering, of joy, of pain, of love, of anger, and of all their affections. It would be very strange that they should express so well what they could not feel.”

“Life is life - whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat or a man. The idea of difference is a human conception for man's own advantage.”

“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.”

“We are the living graves of murdered beasts.”

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Author:George Bernard Shaw

“He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.”

Source: Lectures on Ethics

“I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.”

“When it comes to having a central nervous system, and the ability to feel pain, hunger, and thirst, a rat is a pig is a dog is a boy.”

“Because the heart beats under a covering of hair, of fur, feathers, or wings, it is, for that reason, to be of no account?”

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Author:Jean Paul

“Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.”

Source: A Selection of Writings of and about Albert Schweitzer

“A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help.”

Source: A Treasury of Albert Schweitzer

“There is no religion without love, and people may talk as much as they like about their religion, but if it does not teach them to be good and kind to man and beast, it is all a sham.”

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Book:Black Beauty: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Source: Black Beauty: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

“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.”

“I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men.”

“We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.”

“I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being.”

“We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because they have no words.”

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Book:Black Beauty

Source: Black Beauty

“Life is as dear to a mute creature as it is to man. Just as one wants happiness and fears pain, just as one wants to live and not die, so do other creatures.”

“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.”

Source: 101 Facts of life

“You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.”

“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.”

Source: Mark Twain’s Book of Animals

“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.”

“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.”

“Compassion for animals is intimately associated with goodness of character, and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to animals cannot be a good man.”

Source: 101 Facts of life

“universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.”

Source: 101 Facts of life

“Truly man is the king of beasts, for his brutality exceeds them. We live by the death of others. We are burial places.”

“The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. I hold that the more helpless a creature the more entitled it is to protection by man from the cruelty of humankind.”

“Today it is considered as exaggeration to proclaim constant respect for every form of life as being the serious demand of a rational ethic. But the time is coming when people will be amazed that the human race existed so long before it recognized that thoughtless injury to life is incompatible with real ethics. Ethics is in its unqualified form extended responsibility to everything that has life.”

“What is it that should trace the insuperable line? ...The question is not, Can they reason? nor Can they talk? but, Can they suffer?”

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Book:An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation

Source: An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation

“We cannot have peace among men whose hearts find delight in killing any living creature.”

Source: The house of life: Rachel Carson at work

“Unless 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.”

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