Bernhard Goetz Quotes

I've always had a repulsion going in a place where animals are in captivity.

Any abuse of animals is the same as abuse of men, women, or children.

It isn't true that convicts live like animals: animals have more room to move around.

Animals shouldn't be mistreated.

Our prisons are very bad. When I was in Ikoyi prison, people were dying every day. They were carrying bodies out of the prison every day.

Animals feel pain and love and joy, just as humans. But in the industrialised meat, dairy, and egg industries, animals are denied everything that's natural and important to them. Some of them don't even feel the fresh air. They don't see the light.

I wouldn't want to see any animal in pain, no matter what.

A breeding sow spends most of her life in a tiny cage. It's usually about seven feet long and two feet wide. She cannot turn around. She cannot scratch herself. She must urinate and defecate where she stands. Simply put, I believe she is tortured, day in and day out.

I urge you to ask yourself just how honorable it is to preside over the abuse and suffering of animals.

I think a bird is the worst present you can give somebody because it's guilt-ridden. This animal has the gift of flight, and you put it in a cage and watch it not do that until it dies.

I don't think I'd ever be cruel to an animal.

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.

The way animals were and are abused appalls me to this very day.

Killing a baby seal is about the easiest thing you can do if you're inclined to be sadistic; you certainly can't say there's any sport in it - the animal is totally defenceless.

I don't want any more concentration camps for animals that are cruelly treated, force-fed to fatten themselves up for our consumption.

There is no meaningful distinction between eating flesh and eating dairy or other animal products. Animals exploited in the dairy industry live longer than those used for meat, but they are treated worse during their lives, and they end up in the same slaughterhouse after which we consume their flesh anyway. There is probably more suffering in a glass of milk or an ice cream cone than there is in a steak.

Fur is not luxury: it is an industry of death and suffering.

I hope that dog lovers around the world will support the Cruelty Free International global campaign to end the use of dogs in outdated and cruel experiments.

We do not exploit our dolphins for profit.

The day-to-day discomforts of prison life, combined with the big-picture realities of mass incarceration, do not add up to a party.

I don't like to see animals get hurt.

I am not, and have never been, a supporter of cockfighting or any other forms of animal cruelty.

I would be more angry if an animal were treated cruelly than people, because people can defend themselves.

There is no point in developing anything at the cost of exploiting and abusing animals. Not only is it important for me to create a 100% cruelty-free brand but also send out a very clear message to both consumers and companies out there: testing on animals in the name of beauty is cruel and unnecessary.

If you love animals and you care for them... don't wear them, because they have feelings and personalities just like humans do.