Animal rights quotes

A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite. And to act so is immoral.

Animals don’t have a voice, but I do. A loud one. A big fucking mouth. My voice is for them. And I’ll never shut up while they suffer.

Animals on factory farms all face pain and fear, just like the animals we share our homes with, yet are repeatedly abused in shocking ways.

Animals share with us the privilege of having a soul.

As custodians of the planet it is our responsibility to deal with all species with kindness, love and compassion. That these animals suffer through human cruelty is beyond understanding. Please help to stop this madness.

As long as people will shed the blood of innocent creatures there can be no peace, no liberty, no harmony between people. Slaughter and justice cannot dwell together.

Basically, the reason I’m vegan is because when I was about 16 or 17 years old, I began to understand that we don’t need to contribute to the killing and exploitation of animals to feed our bodies correctly.

Behind every beautiful fur coat, there is a story. It is a bloody, barbaric story.

Behind every beautiful fur, there is a story. It is a bloody, barbaric story.

Cows scream louder than carrots.

Ever consider what pets must think of us? I mean, here we come back from a grocery store with the most amazing haul – chicken, pork, half a cow. They must think we’re the greatest hunters on earth

Every time you drink a glass of milk or eat a piece of cheese, you harm a mother. Please go vegan.

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.

I am a vegan because I don’t want to support the cruel industry that goes on on farms everyday.

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

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.

I do not like eating meat because I have seen lambs and pigs killed. I saw and felt their pain. They felt the approaching death. I could not bear it. I cried like a child. I ran up a hill and could not breathe. I felt that I was choking. I felt the death of the lamb.

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.

I think animals need all the help they can get, because they have none. They have no rights. They have no protection. And so I think animals need help. And I think animals look to humans for protection, and of course humans lead them into slaughterhouses, which to me is just like an image of leading children into a slaughterhouse. There's no difference. That level of trust and… But it's a very cruel world.

If you think that being vegan is difficult, imagine being a factory farmed animal.

If you think that being vegan is hard, imagine being a factory farmed animal.

It costs us so little to go vegan. It costs animals so much if we don’t.

It is the anonymity of animal victims that makes us deaf to their cries.

Kindness and compassion towards all living things is a mark of a civilized society. Conversely, cruelty, whether it is directed against human beings or against animals, is not the exclusive province of any one culture or community of people.

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.

No human influenced me to become vegan. The screaming, terrified, enslaved animals were the only influence needed.

Nobody really needs a mink coat... Except the mink.

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.

One day the absurdity of the almost universal human belief in the slavery of other animals will be palpable. We shall then have discovered our souls and become worthier of sharing this planet with them.

One should not kill a living being, nor cause it to be killed, nor should one incite another to kill. Do not injure any being, either strong or weak, in the world.

People get offended by animal rights campaigns. It’s ludicrous. It's not as bad as mass animal death in a factory.

People often say that humans have always eaten animals, as if this is a justification for continuing the practice. According to this logic, we should not try to prevent people from murdering other people, since this has also been done since the earliest of times.

People think of animals as if they were vegetables, and that is not right. We have to change the way people think about animals. I encourage the Tibetan people and all people to move toward a vegetarian diet that doesn't cause suffering.

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

The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man.

The question is not, Can they reason? Nor, Can they talk? But, Can they suffer?

To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being.

To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being. I should be unwilling to take the life of a lamb for the sake of the human body.

Veganism is not about how easy or hard it is for you. It’s about every animal’s right not to be used as a slave.

Vegetarianism can easily reach religious proportions. Refraining from meat on moral grounds serves to dignify feelings of guilt toward sad-eyed, furry creatures and substitutes righteousness for squeamishness.

We all love animals, but why do we call some of them pets and some of them dinner?

We all love animals. Why do we call some "pets" and others "dinner?"

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

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