Henry Spira famous quotes

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.
-- Henry Spira

#Animal #Feelings #Suffering

I began to wonder why we cuddle some animals and put a fork in others.
-- Henry Spira

#Animal #Wonder #Forks

My dream is that people will come to view eating an animal as cannibalism.
-- Henry Spira

#Dream #Animal #Views

Set goals that are achievable. Bring about meaningful change one step at a time. Raising awareness is not enough.
-- Henry Spira

#Meaningful #Goal #Steps

Their suffering is intense, widespread, expanding, systematic and socially sanctioned. And the victims are unable to organize in defence of their own interests.
-- Henry Spira

#Suffering #Systematic #Intense

Indulgence in animal killing for the taste of the tongue is the grossest kind of ignorance

Animals play a big part in my life, on tour or at home.

Animals keep you company when you're really lonely. It helps because when you have a friend around who always likes you no matter what - it's harder to feel bad or down.

Man is a perpetually wanting animal.

Please also remember the pitiful gasping/thirsty little mouths/ beaks in summer. They'll appreciate abundant/fresh/cool/clean/ water! Food they can get easily in parks/sidewalks!

I write about my feelings, things that happen in my life and experiences.

What I would like you always to do is what I try humbly to do myself, that is, never to say or to do anything which would wound the feelings or the self-respect of any human being, and to give special consideration to all who are in any way repressed.

Tragedy is not what men suffer but what they miss.

...morally speaking, there is no limit to the concern one must feel for the suffering of human beings, that indifference to evil is worse than evil itself, that in a free society, some are guilty, but all are responsible.

I suffer from and enjoy an incredibly vivid dream life. A lot of times there is a sort-of narrative and other times they are just funhouses of non-linear imagery and other scary stuff.