Thomas Love Peacock Quotes

Four legs good, two legs bad.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Animals weren't put on this earth to entertain us.

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 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.

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.

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

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

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

By the divine providence [animals] are intended for man's use... Hence it is not wrong for man to make use of them, either by killing or in any other way whatsoever.

Animals, or at least those who are conscious and capable of suffering or enjoying their lives, are not things for us to use in whatever way we find convenient.

I hate a word like 'pets': it sounds so much Like something with no living of its own.