Sri Aurobindo Quotes

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.

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

All the arguments to prove man's superiority cannot shatter this hard fact: in suffering the animals are our equals.

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

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

Four legs good, two legs bad.

I've always loved animals and I always thought that they were, if not better, then the absolute equal of any two legged creature that God ever created.

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

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

Humanity evolves when we realise that animals have the same rights to the Earth as we do.

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.

Just as we reject racism, sexism, ageism, and heterosexism, we reject speciesism. The species of a sentient being is no more reason to deny the protection of this basic right than race, sex, age, or sexual orientation is a reason to deny membership in the human moral community to other humans.

The older I get, the more individuality I find in animals and the less I find in humans.

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.

We're one of the only animals in the world that don't really think of ourselves as animals, but we are animals, and we must respect our fellow animals.

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

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

Humans can no longer ignore nonhumans: they end up haunting the words we use and interrupting everyday talk.

The idea that it is funny to see wild animals coerced into acting like clumsy humans, or thrilling to see powerful beasts reduced to cringing cowards by a whip-cracking trainer, is primitive and medieval. It stems from the old idea that we are superior to other species and have the right to hold dominion over them.

Animals... are there merely as a means to an end. That end is man.

The theory of animal rights simply is not consistent with the theory of animal welfare... Animal rights means dramatic social changes for humans and non-humans alike; if our bourgeois values prevent us from accepting those changes, then we have no right to call ourselves advocates of animal rights.

A rat is a pig is a dog is a boy. They're all animals.

They have no consciousness therefore. Therefore what? Therefore we are free to use them for our own ends? Therefore we are free to kill them? Why? What is so special about the form of consciousness we recognize that makes killing a bearer of it a crime while killing an animal goes unpunished?...all this discussion of consciousness and whether animals have it is just a smokescreen. At bottom we protect our own kind. Thumbs up to human babies, thumbs down to veal calves.

For once, I believe that PETA, at least on the level of logic, is correct. If the NCAA has to protect offended Native Americans ... by God, PETA ought to advocate for the protection of every organism in the animal kingdom.