Animal Killing Quotes

They should call fishing what it really is... tricking and killing!

I grew up around hunters. I love guns, bows, arrows, compasses and binoculars. I don't do any of that stuff, I just like the stuff. I shot one animal, in my life, and I didn't like it. If I had to skin an animal to eat it, I'd probably eat vegetables.

I hate the thought of animals being killed just for our pleasure...

We don't murder, we kill.... You don't murder animals, you kill them.

In the Bible it says God has made everything good for man to eat and to wear their skins. Whenever we eat beef, we eat chicken, we have to kill to eat. But at the same time, hunting is a sport. I think it is a great sport... I would say most hunters are Christian men.

Basically, the reason I'm vegan is because when I was about 16 or 17 years old, I began to understand that we don't need to contribute to the killing and exploitation of animals to feed our bodies correctly.

...to kill animals for the purpose of feeding on their flesh is one of the most deplorable and shameful infirmities of the human state

I think it's very wrong to have the mass murder, every single day, of millions of animals.

Lincoln and I were alike in that neither of us liked to hunt and fish. We didn’t like to kill anything.

I don't shoot anything. I could never kill an animal. My dad does all the hunting, and he eats everything that he kills.

Three million alligators were killed in Florida between 1880 and 1900. Goody!

Whales are killed today to supply the limited demand for whale meat or to be used in pet foods or as fodder for fur-bearing animals used in the fur trade.

Vegans are murderers, just like everyone else.

I don't believe there is any justifiable reason for killing any animal unless perhaps if it's killing you! That would be negotiable.

The cycle of life is death, decomposition and regeneration, and a person who wants to stop killing animals is actually anti-life because it's only in death that life can be regenerated.

In most of the world, it is accepted that if animals are to be killed for food, they should be killed without suffering.

Don't listen to me. I'm a maniac, but the voice in your head, ask it "Is it right to kill 200 million animals simply for fun?". What did it say? Right. There you go.

People are still disturbingly vague about the treatment of animals. People still seem to believe that meat is a particular substance not at all connected to animals playing in the field over there. People don't realise how gruesomely and fighteningly the animal gets to the plate.

Dogs and cats get put to sleep; hogs and cows get slaughtered.

The consumption of animals - whether you're wearing them or eating them - is extraordinarily damaging to the planet. There are over a billion animals killed a year for food, half of which don't even get eaten. And there's over 50 million animals killed just for fashion.

In Africa, we have the bush meat trade, which means that, on a very large scale, animals are being killed in the forests and sold in the cities as a luxury food.

Suppose by chance you do get picked up. What have you done? You shot a horse; that isn't first degree murder; in fact, it isn't even murder; in fact, I don't know what it is.

More than 65,000 horses were slaughtered in the United States in 2004, a 50 percent increase since 2002.

I spend a hell of a lot of time killing animals and fish so I wouldn't kill myself. When a man is in rebellion against death, as I am in rebellion against death, he gets pleasure out of taking to himself one of the godlike attributes; that of giving it.

When I was old enough to realize all meat was killed, I saw it as an irrational way of using our power, to take a weaker thing and mutilate it. It was like the way bullies would take control of younger kids in the schoolyard.