Quotes of: Animal-products Keyword

One of the truly bizarre things about our current cultural situation is that the leading figures of the scientific establishment seem genuinely amazed that the citizens do not accept finch-beak variation as proof of the claim that humans, like all an...

An Easy-to-Understand Guide for Defeating Darwinism by Opening Minds

Being vegan is easy. Are there social pressures that encourage you to continue to eat, wear, and use animal products? Of course there are. But in a patriarchal, racist, homophobic, and ableist society, there are social pressures to participate and en...

Gary L. Francione

[Darwin] gave an answer to the tremendous question that so deeply concerns...What is Man? [He] answered this question to the effect that man is a natural product of the universe;...man is an animal, a vertebrate, a mammal, and a primate....By bringin...

George Gaylord Simpson

Let us remember that animals are not mere resources for human consumption. They are splendid beings in their own right, who have evolved alongside us as co-inheritors of all the beauty and abundance of life on this planet

Animals Matter: A Biologist Explains Why We Should Treat Animals with Compassion and Respect

The bourgeoisie cannot exist without constantly revolutionizing the instruments of production, and thereby the relations of production, and with them the whole relations of society. Conservation of the old modes of production in unaltered forms, was,...

The Communist Manifesto

What is the bottom line for the animal/human hierarchy? I think it is at the animate/inanimate line, and Carol Adams and others are close to it: we eat them. This is what humans want from animals and largely why and how they are most harmed. We make ...

Catherine Mackinnon

An animal's end is slaughter.

Yiddish

Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

Aneurin Bevan

Dominion does not mean domination. We hold dominion over animals only because of our powerful and ubiquitous intellect. Not because we are morally superior. Not because we have a "right" to exploit those who cannot defend themselves. Let us use our b...

Animals Matter: A Biologist Explains Why We Should Treat Animals with Compassion and Respect

Animal Mother: You a photographer? Private Joker: I'm a combat correspondent. Animal Mother: Well, you seen much combat? Private Joker: [sarcastic] I've seen a little on TV. Animal Mother: You're a real comedian. Private Joker: Well, they call me the...

Full Metal Jacket

[Shapiro received 7 letters at mail call] Animal: What do all those broads say? Shapiro: What do they always say? Animal: Lemme read one. Shapiro: It's not good for you, Animal. Animal: Hey, this is with a typewriter... it's from a finance company. S...

Stalag 17

Man is the only animal that loves his neighbor as himself and cuts his throat if his theology isn't straight

The Higher Animals: A Mark Twain Bestiary

Other animals, in a constant and mostly unmediated relation with their sensory surroundings, think with the whole of their bodies.

Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmology

The inner encounters I have with animals—and will be teaching you to have— are exchanges of meaning.

Animal Wisdom: Learning from the Spiritual Lives of Animals

Grieving the loss of a loved one—whether human or animal—is not only permissible, it is essential.

Animal Wisdom: Learning from the Spiritual Lives of Animals

We are built to be effective animals, not happy ones.

The Moral Animal: Why We Are the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology

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.

Gary L. Francione

A man who learns complicated things from animals is a clever man, but an animal who learns complicated things from men is a genius animal!

Mehmet Murat ildan

The more you learn about animals and animal rights - it's an intriguing, fascinating world.

Mona Simpson

Most of the time, those who use animals in experiments justify that use by pointing to alleged benefits to human and animal health and the supposed necessity of using animals to obtain those benefits.

Gary L. Francione

I also love animals, and I worked at a veterinary clinic for a while, but it turns out that loving animals and removing deflated basketballs from the intestinal tracts of animals are two very different skill sets.

Karen Russell