Animal Activist Quotes:

If we are not able to bring the churches, the synagogues, [and] the mosques around to the animal rights view, we will never make large-scale progress for animal rights in the United States.

- Norm Phelps

topic: Animal, Views, Rights, Large Scale, Animal Activist

Surely there will be some nonhuman animals whose lives, by any standards, are more valuable than the lives of some humans.

- Peter Singer

source: Peter Singer (1975). “Animal liberation: a new ethics for our treatment of animals”

topic: Animal, Standards, Valuable, Animal Activist, Animal Rights Activists

I'm an animal rights activist because I believe we won't have a planet if we continue to behave toward other species the way we do.

- James Cromwell

topic: Believe, Animal, Rights, Animal Activist, Animal Rights Activists

I don't use the word 'pet.' I think it's speciest language. I prefer 'companion animal.' We would no longer allow... pet shops... Eventually companion animals would be phased out.

- Ingrid Newkirk

topic: Animal, Thinking, Pet, Companion Animals, Animal Activist

We have no ethical obligation to preserve the different breeds of livestock produced through selective breeding One generation and out. We have no problems with the extinction of domestic animals. They are creations of human selective breeding.

- Wayne Pacelle

topic: Animal, Different, Generations, Peta, Humane Society

To those people who say, 'My father is alive because of animal experimentation,' I say, 'Yeah, well, good for you. This dog died so your father could live.' Sorry, but I am just not behind that kind of trade-off.

- Bill Maher

topic: Dog, Sorry, Father, Dog Died, Animal Activist

You dont have to own squirrels and starlings to get enjoyment from them ... One day, we would like an end to pet shops and the breeding of animals. [Dogs] would pursue their natural lives in the wild ... they would have full lives, not wasting at home for someone to come home in the evening and pet them and then sit there and watch TV,

- Ingrid Newkirk

source: "The Chicago Daily Herald" Newspaper, March 1, 1990.

topic: Dog, Home, Animal, Starlings, Full Life

Six million Jews died in concentration camps, but six billion broiler chickens will die this year in slaughter houses.

- Ingrid Newkirk

source: "Has PETA Gone Too Far With Billboard Featuring Mayor Giuliani?". "Crossfire" with Bill Press and Mary Matalin, www.cnn.com. August 29, 2000.

topic: Years, House, Six, Peta, Concentration Camp

Pet ownership is an absolutely abysmal situation brought about by human manipulation.

- Ingrid Newkirk

source: "Harper's Magazine", August 1, 1988.

topic: Animal, Pet, Manipulation, Peta, Animal Activist

Arson, property destruction, burglary, and theft are 'acceptable crimes' when used for the animal cause.

- Alex Pacheco

topic: Animal, Arson, Causes, Burglary, Animal Activist

The bottom line is that people dont have the right to manipulate or to breed dogs and cats ... If people want toys, they should buy inanimate objects. If they want companionship, they should seek it with their own kind,

- Ingrid Newkirk

topic: Dog, Cat, People, Companion Animals, Animal Activist

If abandoning animal research means that there are some things we cannot learn, then so be it ... We have no basic right ... not to be harmed by those natural diseases we are heir to.

- Tom Regan

topic: Mean, Animal, Research, Animal Activist, Animal Research

An animal experiment cannot be justifiable unless the experiment is so important that the use of a brain-damaged human would be justifiable.

- Peter Singer

topic: Animal, Brain, Important, Animal Testing, Experiments On Animals

Eating meat is primitive, barbaric, and arrogant.

- Ingrid Newkirk

topic: Meat, Arrogant, Eating, Barbaric, Animal Activist

Even if animal tests produced a cure for AIDS, we'd be against it.

- Ingrid Newkirk

topic: Animal, Tests, Aids, Animal Activist, Animal Rights Activists

Our nonviolent tactics are not as effective. We ask nicely for years and get nothing. Someone makes a threat, and it works.

- Ingrid Newkirk

topic: Animal, Years, Tactics, Animal Activist, Animal Rights Activists

We have no problem with the extinction of domestic animals.

- Wayne Pacelle

topic: Animal, Extinction, Problem, Peta, Humane Society

In a war you have to take up arms and people will get killed, and I can support that kind of action by petrol bombing and bombs under cars, and probably at a later stage, the shooting of vivisectors on their doorsteps. It's a war, and there's no other way you can stop vivisectors.

- Tim Daly

topic: War, Animal, Car, Petrol, Animal Activist

Hit them in their personal lives, visit their homes . Actively target U.S. military establishments within the United States... strike hard and fast and retreat in anonymity. Select another location, strike again hard and fast and quickly retreat in anonymity ... Do not get caught. DO NOT GET CAUGHT. Do not get sent to jail. Stay alert, keep active, and keep fighting.

- Craig Rosebraugh

topic: Military, Home, Fighting, Animal Activist, Animal Rights Activists

Probably everything we do is a publicity stunt ... we are not here to gather members, to please, to placate, to make friends. We're here to hold the radical line.

- Ingrid Newkirk

topic: Animal, Lines, Publicity, Peta, Animal Activist

I don't have a hands - on fondness for animals. I did not grow up bonded to any particular nonhuman animal. I like them and I pet them and I'm kind to them, but there's no special bond between me and other animals...

- Wayne Pacelle

source: "Bloodties: Nature, Culture, and the Hunt". Book by Ted Kerasote, www.humanewatch.org. 1994.

topic: Growing Up, Animal, Hands, Animal Activist, Animal Rights Activists

In the end, I think it would be lovely if we stopped this whole notion of pets altogether.

- Ingrid Newkirk

source: "Newsday" Newspaper, February 21, 1988.

topic: Thinking, Pet, Lovely, Animal Activist, Animal Rights Activists

I'm not only uninterested in having children. I am opposed to having children. Having a purebred human baby is like having a purebred dog; it is nothing but vanity, human vanity.

- Ingrid Newkirk

source: "New Yorker" Magazine, April 23, 2003.

topic: Baby, Dog, Children, Peta, Uninterested

If it were a retarded baby and a bright dog, I'd save the dog.

- Tom Regan

topic: Dog, Baby, Retarded, Peta, Animal Activist

I’m an animal activist. Many people say that I’m a hypocrite, because I eat burgers and stuff like that but I won’t wear fur. But I’m not a hypocrite. I just only wear fake fur.

- Paris Hilton

topic: Hypocrite, Animal, People, Animal Activist

You know what the problem that animal activists sometimes have? They only concentrate on the heartbreaking things to the point where the general public thinks, 'Oh, here comes those animal folks again and I'm going to hear all the things I don't want to hear.'

- Betty White

topic: Animal, Thinking, Heartbreaking, Animal Activist

My experience protesting with Mojave Dolphins, and the other wonderful animal activists, can be described in a few words: inspiring, motivational and purposeful. The execution of the protests is incredible; the signs are amazing, creative and eye catching. You can really feel the unity in the group, running like a well oiled machine towards the goal of liberating our captive animal friends.

- Camille

topic: Running, Eye, Animal, Mojave, Captives