George Orwell Quotes

And there begins a lang digression about the lords o' the creation.

Although we have, in theory, abolished human slavery, recognized women's rights, and stopped child labor, we continue to enslave other species who, if we simply pay attention, show quite clearly that they experience parental love, pain, and the desire for freedom, just as we do.

I support the rights of non-humans wholeheartedly with my voice, my money, my presence, my writing and any other way I can.

We do not think clearly about our moral obligations to animals.

Nothing can be more obvious than that all animals were created solely and exclusively for the use of man.

We eat animals because they taste good. And if that's O.K., what's wrong with wearing fur? We need as a society to think seriously about our institutionalized animal use.

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

There is increasing social concern about our use of nonhumans for experiments, food, clothing and entertainment. This concern about animals reflects both our own moral development as a civilization and our recognition that the differences between humans and animals are, for the most part, differences of degree and not of kind.

Too often, animal-rights supporters seem to care about animals to the exclusion of people.

What do they know-all these scholars, all these philosophers, all the leaders of the world - about such as you? They have convinced themselves that man, the worst transgressor of all the species, is the crown of creation. All other creatures were created merely to provide him with food, pelts, to be tormented, exterminated. In relation to them, all people are Nazis; for the animals it is an eternal Treblinka.

We do not advocate 'right to life' for animals.

I have never really been fond of animals. I certainly wasn't an 'animal lover' when I became involved in the movement. I just came to be persuaded that animals should be treated as independent sentient beings, not as means to human ends.

We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form.

We all love the environment, but we have placed creatures above people. A rat is a rat.

We do not need to eat animals, wear animals, or use animals for entertainment purposes, and our only defense of these uses is our pleasure, amusement, and convenience.

Just about every children's book in my local bookstore has an animal for its hero. But then, only a few feet away in the cookbook section, just about every cookbook includes recipes for cooking animals. Is there a more illuminating illustration of our paradoxical relationship with the nonhuman world?

The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.

Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal.

The case for exploiting animals for food, clothing and entertainment often relies on our superior intelligence, language and self-awareness: the rights of the superior being trump those of the inferior.

You shouldn't say 'animals' to distinguish between humans and non-humans. We are all animals.

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.

Man is the only animal that can be skinned more than once.

I have resigned from the human race. Look at the way we treat animals.

If apes are given the right to humane treatment, it just might become harder to deny that same right to their human cousins.

The kind of flinching from any form of art or experience that PETA seems to advocate is ultimately life-hating.