Ingrid Newkirk
The extinction of Homo Sapiens would mean survival for millions, if not billions, of Earth-dwelling species. Phasing out the human race will solve every problem on Earth - social and environmental.Collection: Mean
Pet ownership is slavery. Animals are not ours to eat, wear, experiment on, or be entertained by.Collection: Animal
I'd go to work early, before anyone got there, and I would just kill the animals myself...I must have killed a thousand of them, sometimes dozens every day.Collection: Animal
Six million Jews died in concentration camps, but six billion broiler chickens will die this year in slaughter houses.Collection: Years
In the end, I think it would be lovely if we stopped this whole notion of pets altogether.Collection: Thinking
Recognize meat for what it really is: the antibiotic- and pesticide-laden corpse of a tortured animal.Collection: Food
The smallest form of life, even an ant or a clam, is equal to a human beingCollection: Ants
We have to be aggressive when those we stick up for have no voice. I don't consider it radical to say cruelty is wrong and that animals should be respected. I consider it radical to eat corpses, put electrodes in animals' heads, make elephants live in chains in the circus, and poison animals we consider a nuisance.Collection: Animal
We do not advocate 'right to life' for animals.Collection: Animal
We are not in the home finding business, although it is certainly true that we do find homes from time to time for the kind of animals people are looking for. Our service is to provide a peaceful and painless death to animals who no one wants.Collection: Home
Pet ownership is an absolutely abysmal situation brought about by human manipulation.Collection: Animal
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.Collection: Baby
Euthanasia is the kindest gift to a dog or cat unwanted and unloved.Collection: Dog
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.Collection: Dog
A rat is a pig is a dog is a boy. They're all animals.Collection: Dog
Even if animal tests produced a cure for AIDS, we'd be against it.Collection: Animal
In order to be kind, one must do. There is no point in thinking good thoughts and not acting on them. There is no currency in wishing things were better but not rolling up one's sleeves and helping to change them.Collection: Thinking
Anybody who witnesses the suffering of animals and has a glimmer of hope of reducing that suffering can't take the position that it's all or nothing. We have to be pragmatic. Screw the principle.Collection: Animal
I am not a morose person, but I would rather not be here. I don't have any reverence for life, only for the entities themselves. I would rather see a blank space where I am. This will sound like fruitcake stuff again but at least I wouldn't be harming anything.Collection: Space
When it comes to pain, love, joy, loneliness, and fear, a rat is a pig is a dog is a boy.Collection: Dog
I plan to send my liver somewhere in France, to protest foie gras (liver pate) ... I plan to have handbags made from my skin ... and an umbrella stand made from my seat.Collection: Skins
Animal liberationists do not separate out the human animal, so there is no rational basis for saying that a human being has special rights. A rat is a pig is a dog is a boy. They're all mammals.Collection: Dog
If my father had a heart attack it would give me no solace at all to know his treatment was first tried on a dog.Collection: Dog
Even painless research is fascism, supremacism...Collection: Animal
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.Collection: Dog
Eventually companion animals would be phased out, and we would return to a more symbiotic relationship - enjoyment at a distance.Collection: Distance
A burning building doesnt help melt peoples hearts, but times change and tactics, Im sure, have to change with them. If you choose to carry out ALF-style actions, I ask you to please not say more than you need to, to think carefully who you trust, to learn all you can about how to behave if arrested, and so to try to live to fight another day.Collection: Heart
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.Collection: Animal
Even if animal experiments did result in a cure for AIDS, of which there is no chance, I'd be against it on moral grounds.Collection: Animal
Our nonviolent tactics are not as effective. We ask nicely for years and get nothing. Someone makes a threat, and it works.Collection: Animal
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.Collection: Animal
When we build an attractive home, we raze land on which animals have already built their homes. They have nowhere to go.Collection: Home
I am just trying to make the best possible case for the animals. That is clearly what I have been put on earth to do. Even after I am gone I will try to continue.Collection: Animal
Eating meat is primitive, barbaric, and arrogant.Collection: Eating Meat
We’re looking for good lawsuits that will establish the interests of animals as a legitimate area of concern in law.Collection: Animal
Even painless research is fascism, supremacism, because the act of confinement is traumatizing in itself.Collection: Research
...no movement for social change has ever succeeded without 'the militarism component'....Thinkers may prepare revolutions, but bandits must carry them outCollection: Animal
One day, we would like an end to pet shops and the breeding of animals.Collection: Animal
We are opposed to all cruelty, so as advocates of non-violence, opponents of oppression, people who abhor the cruelty inherent in slaughtering we say the only ethical way to consume flesh is to pick up the carcass of an animal who has died naturally or been killed accidentally, say by being hit by a car, and eat that.Collection: Animal
If that hideousness came here, it wouldn't be any more hideous for the animals — they are all bound for a ghastly death anyway. But it would wake up consumers... I openly hope that it comes here. It will bring economic harm only for those who profit from giving people heart attacks and giving animals a concentration camp-like existence. It would be good for animals, good for human health and good for the environment.Collection: Heart
It is dangerous to engage in even the most innocuous-seeming discourse with the FBI/ Homeland Security/ a local detective.Collection: Animal
If a girl gets sexual pleasure from riding a horse, does the horse suffer? If not, who cares? If you French kiss your dog and he or she thinks it's great, is it wrong? We believe all exploitation and abuse is wrong. If it isn't exploitation and abuse, it may not be wrong.Collection: Girl
Would I rather the research lab that tests animals is reduced to a bunch of cinders? Yes.Collection: Animal
I find that as I get older I seem to become more of a Luddite... And hearing animal experimenters describe me as a Luddite--which used to think I was not. And now I think Ned Lud had the right idea and we should have stopped all the machinery way back when, and learned to live simple lives.Collection: Animal
Humans have grown like a cancer. We're the biggest blight on the face of the earth.Collection: Cancer
I will be the last person to condemn ALF [the Animal Liberation Front].Collection: Animal
It's interesting that one of the definitions of the word "human" is "sympathetic." More and more people are beginning to show that they understand why that is important.Collection: People
If Vice President Al Gore advocated killing rabbits to see if women are pregnant and called it a step forward for science, we'd all think he'd gone 'round the bend. We don't need to do that sort of thing anymore, we'd say. We have better, kinder ways.Collection: Thinking
The best bet for the horses would be to stop betting on the Derby and other horse races, and to stop breeding, racing and killing thoroughbreds altogetherCollection: Horse