“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.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer

“Not responding is a response - we are equally responsible for what we don’t do.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer

“Just how destructive does a culinary preference have to be before we decide to eat something else ? If contributing to the suffering of billions of animals that live miserable lives and (quite often) die in horrific ways isn’t motivating, what would be ? If being the number one contributor to the most serious threat facing the planet (global warming) isn’t enough, what is ? And if you are tempted to put off these questions of conscience, to say not now, then when ?”
― Jonathan Safran Foer

“Poor animals, how jealously they guard their bodies, for to us is merely an evening’s meal, but to them is life itself.”
― T. Casey Brennan

“Auschwitz begins wherever someone looks at a slaughterhouse and thinks : they’re only animals.”
― Theodor W. Adorno

“We need, in a special way, to work twice as hard to help people understand that the animals are fellow creatures, that we must protect them and love them as we love ourselves.”
― César Chávez

“We know we cannot be kind to animals until we stop exploiting them — exploiting animals in the name of science, exploiting animals in the name of sport, exploiting animals in the name of fashion, and yes, exploiting animals in the name of food.”
― César Chávez

“If slaughterhouses had glass walls, we would all be vegetarian.”
― Paul McCartney

“Poor animals, how jealously they guard their bodies, for to us is merely an evening’s meal, but to them is life itself.”
― T. Casey Brennan

“To be ’for animals’ is not to be ’against humanity.’ To require others to treat animals justly, as their rights require, is not to ask for anything more nor less in their case than in the case of any human to whom just treatment is due. The animal rights movement is a part of, not opposed to, the human rights movement. Attempts to dismiss it as anti human are mere rhetoric.”
― Tom Regan

“Often, the greater our ignorance about something, the greater our resistance to change.”
― Marc Bekoff

“Make ethical choices in what we buy, do, and watch. In a consumer-driven society our individual choices, used collectively for the good of animals and nature, can change the world faster than laws.”
― Marc Bekoff