Robert Lepage Quotes

I think that now that we are seeing multimedia types of productions with videos and pictures and human beings performing the acts that animals used to perform, such as in Cirque du Soleil and other traveling troops, there is no need to parade animals around anymore in cages for personal gratification.

Of course 'we humans' have a funny relationship with the beings with whom we share our planet. We eat them, we care for them, we admire them, we use them.

I have absolutely no empathy for camels. I didn't care for being abused in the Middle East by those horrible, horrible, horrible creatures. They don't like people. It's not at all like the relationship between horses and humans.

Silly humans. Banging on a tub to make a bear dance when we would move the stars to pity.

But for the use of physical punishment by, and fear of their oppressors, animals would never be a part of a circus.

I love to go to the zoo. But not on Sunday. I don't like to see the people making fun of the animals, when it should be the other way around.

Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind - it is only the difference in the victim.

Using animals for entertainment is big business, plain and simple.

I don't think that the world would be a better place if everyone owned a dog, and I don't think that all relationships between dogs and their owners are good, healthy, or enriching.

Bulls do not win bull fights. People do.

In my movies, there has been little to do in the way of animal rights. I have never worked in a movie with animals. No horse-riding, no trained dogs, lions, bears. A few actors, but what could I do? We had to have them.

Attempts to defend amusement parks and circuses on the grounds that they 'educate' people about animals should not be taken seriously. Such enterprises are part of the commercial entertainment industry. The most important lesson they teach impressionable young minds is that it is acceptable to keep animals in captivity for human amusement.

There is no excuse for keeping wild animals in amusement parks or circuses. Until our governments take action, we should avoid supporting places where captive wild animals perform for our amusement. If the public will not pay to see them, the businesses that profit from keeping animals captive will not be able to continue.

When I was a child, going to a circus with wild animal acts was a rite of passage. These days, it's an act of complicit cruelty.

I don't think rodeo is cruel at all. Bullriding is the only man-animal event that makes sense.

Say no to circuses that exploit and abuse animals.

Cruelty to animals can become violence to humans.

When children see animals in a circus, they learn that animals exist for our amusement. Quite apart from the cruelty involved in training and confining these animals, the whole idea that we should enjoy the humiliating spectacle of an elephant or lion made to perform circus tricks shows a lack of respect for the animals as individuals.

If we are concerned about the exploitation of human workers in countries with low standards of worker protection, we should also be concerned about the treatment of even more defenceless non-human animals.

To me, it is one world, and the non-human animals bear the brunt of oppression and suffering.

However, I do firmly believe in maintaining the integrity of the animal.

Abuse yourself all you want - just leave animals out of it. Don't wear fur.

The behavior of men to the lower animals, and their behavior to each other, bear a constant relationship.

Through PETA, we rescue animals in roadside zoos and circuses. They are some of the most abused animals in the country.

Working in this industry, I have been exposed to so many products and now realize more than ever how cruel and unnecessary animal testing is.