Animal Rights Movement Quotes

A growing and increasingly influential movement of philosophers, ethicists, law professors and activists are convinced that the great moral struggle of our time will be for the rights of animals.

I plan to send my liver somewhere in France, to protest foie gras (liver pate) ... I plan to have handbags made from my skin ... and an umbrella stand made from my seat.

I'm such an advocate for animal rights and environmental rights.

I'd like this to become my principal activity: to make films about animals. Of course it's always interesting to model, but it depends who you are working with. I will continue to make acting, too, but I'm old - I'm getting tired of it.

I'm definitely an animal lover, and I stand up for all animals' rights.

I've been an animal rights activist and a vegan for 28 years. The entire time, I've asked myself: How do I best advance an animal rights agenda?

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.

I think I've kind of been mistaken for somebody who's trying to be a spokesperson for animal rights, and the fact is I'm not qualified to be a spokesperson. I am passionate about it, but I'm not trying to make other people do what I do.

I never believed that U2 wanted to save the whales. I don't believe that The Beastie Boys are ready to lay it down for Tibet.

I will be the last person to condemn ALF [the Animal Liberation Front].

The way animals are carted around reminds me of the slavery of my people... The slavery of animals has to be ended too.

I've become an animal rights activist.

I'm an animal-rights person, actually. Big time.

I published a thesis about animal rights when I was studying in England in 1991. Back then, I was a human rights lawyer and people condemned me for talking about animal rights when human rights are still not guaranteed. However, human rights are guaranteed in a society where animal rights are secured.

We can all do that. Monkeys do that. I want legislation, not applause.

When I first became involved with PETA, it was on an 'issue-by-issue' basis - they interviewed me in my old apartment about animal abuse in the circus as I sat on a leather sofa.

The animal rights cause is something close to my heart and something I truly believe in.

When I did 'Babe' I wanted to talk about animal rights without going through some convoluted justifications about using animal products.

I'm not Ted Nugent. My house is run, essentially, by an adopted, fully clawed cat with a mean nature. I would never hunt. I would never wear fur. I would never go to a bullfight. I'm not really a meat and potatoes guy.

People get offended by animal rights campaigns. It's ludicrous. It's not as bad as mass animal death in a factory.

The truth is that at the White House and in Congress, you are as likely to find sympathy for animal issues among Republicans as among Democrats.

No one is more keen than me to see the Hunting Act repealed, because I believe in the management of wildlife.

I never really thought it out. I just woke up one day, and I was involved in all these projects. They just seemed to involve animals.

When I went to D.C., I thought I would have an incredible platform to help animals. But I realized very quickly that there were huge limits to what I could do.

We should all love animals.