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“Every morning, the newspapers are crammed full of human-interest stories, and on television we see one human after another. When animals do make an occasional appearance, they are ascribed human characteristics to make them palatable. And people only talk about themselves. Even if the subject is natural phenomena like earthquakes, tsunamis or cherry blossoms coming into full bloom, everything is seen in terms of the impact on people. Nothing delights people more than to talk about people dying or being killed.”
― Yukio Mishima, Beautiful Star

“When I look into the eyes of our animal friends, I feel as if it’s the universe itself looking back at me, a profoundly beautiful, deep, and knowing presence. I sense this universal spirit is waiting to see how I will treat them, judging my worthiness of the gift of their companionship. I feel their beauty and purity in the very depths of my soul, and in the process of caring for them and trying to protect them from harm, my heart fills with a love that feels infiniteâ€�”
― Rai Aren

“Because most of us are shielded (or shield ourselves) from the unpleasant realities associated with the routine use of animals, we can maintain a view of ourselves as animal lovers by being kind to the few living animals we personally encounter.”
― Grace Clement

“Some religious ideas may be on the decline, but not, I would say, human exceptionalism. Fewer people might believe in God than they used to, yet, although veganism is on the rise, most of us are still perfectly happy with the fact that we kill and eat huge amounts of animals when we don’t really need to. Most of us don’t bother with questioning this much. But I assume, if asked why we all think it’s OK to kill animals and not humans for meat, most would agree that humans are more important, more sacred, more valuable, more entitled to life than animals. There is secular backing for this idea â€� we have culture and language, and animals don’t (not true, they just have different culture and language) â€� but at heart it’s a hangover from religion. It’s a hangover from the notion that God made us in His image, and thus we sit at the top of the tree of life.”
― David Baddiel, The God Desire

“We dined at a vegetarian restaurant with the enticing name ‘I Eat Nobody,â€� and Tolstoy's picture prominent on the walls, and then sallied out into the streets.”
― John Reed, Ten Days That Shook the World

“Racism stems from the view that a particular race is inherently superior, and therefore more worthy than other races. Chauvinism has it’s roots in the false notion that one gender is ultimately better than another. And speciesism is bolstered by similar sentiments of superiority. Not white supremacy, or male supremacy, but human supremacy, which is as equally biased and nonsensical!! It allows us to feel OK about treating individuals of other species in ways which, all but the most psychopathic among us, would recognise as wrong were we to replace those individuals with members of our own species.”
― Mango Wodzak, Topsy-Turvy World - Vegan Anarchy

“With regard to farmed animals, we are the ones who are in power. We are the ones who have the power to change our consumer habits. We are the ones who either put our money down for their lives, or boycott animal products.”
― Lisa Kemmerer, Speaking Up for Animals: An Anthology of Women's Voices

“Those who are aware of history, of patriarchy and of the feminist movement, tend to understand how difficult it is—and how important—for people to rethink basic behaviors in order to bring about deep and lasting change. We must rethink how we speak, how we spend our time, and what we consume. This is as true for fighting sexism as it is for fighting speciesism—or any other form of domination, exploitation, and oppression. We must change our lives first, and most fundamentally. . . . [Feminists] can and must choose not to continue to exploit nonhuman animals while working to liberate girls and women”
― Lisa Kemmerer, Speaking Up for Animals: An Anthology of Women's Voices

“It is a dangerous business to compare sufferings, and generally an unproductive enterprise. Yet compare we must, because most people assume that anymal suffering is somehow lesser—or of less importance—than the suffering of human beings. Why would human suffering be of greater moral or spiritual importance than anymal suffering?”
― Lisa Kemmerer, Animals and World Religions

“No group of humans has ever been held in as low regard or exploited on anything close to the same level as non-human beings have been throughout history and still are today. No group of humans has ever been systematically bred, raised, killed, and eaten. No group of humans has ever been born and raised in order for people to make basketballs, wallets, or boots out of their skin. No, there is no comparison. No group of humans has ever truly been “treated like animalsâ€�.”
― Magnus Vinding, Speciesism: Why It Is Wrong and the Implications of Rejecting It

“I wish I could say that over the years I've gained some insight into the intelligence of my worms, but the most I've seen them do is act out of instinct or hunger, moving up to higher ground in the bin if water pools in the bottom, or gravitating towards food they like and away from food they don't. If they have an intellect, I don't suppose I've provided much to stimulate it.”
― Amy Stewart, The Earth Moved: On the Remarkable Achievements of Earthworms

“Sometimes I wonder if it is too much of an imposition on earthworms to push them into polluted ground, or to force-feed them a particular bacteria because we'd like to see it spread around. Darwin noticed that humans tend to exploit any characteristic for their own good, writing that "in the process of selection man almost invariably wishes to go to an extreme point." Are we taking advantage of earthworms? Shouldn't we clean up our own messes, or learn not to make them in the first place?”
― Amy Stewart, The Earth Moved: On the Remarkable Achievements of Earthworms

“Human genomes can be found in only about 10 percent of all the cells that occupy the mundane space I call my body; the other 90 percent of the cells are filled with the genomes of bacteria, fungi, protists, and such, some of which play in a symphony necessary to my being alive at all, and some of which are hitching a ride and doing the rest of me, of us, no harm. I am vastly outnumbered by my tiny companions; better put, I become an adult human being in company with these tiny messmates (When Species Meet, p. 4).”
― Donna J. Haraway, When Species Meet

“The anthropocentrism of most political philosophy is, to put it mildly, a massive failure.”
― Magnus Vinding, Reasoned Politics

“... wild animals suffer from a wide range of harms regardless of their reproductive strategies, including hunger, disease, parasitism, and natural disasters. These harms often cause intense suffering, and we should not disregard this suffering merely because the sufferers happen to live in the wild, or because they happen to have non-human bodies. We rightly acknowledge a moral duty to relieve intense suffering experienced by humans, including when it is due to natural causes, and there is no justification for restricting this moral duty to humans only ... .”
― Magnus Vinding, Reasoned Politics

“If you or I were to see somebody in the street beating a dog, and we said “please don’t beat your dog,â€� but he carried on beating the dog, we would have to use some force—which could be defined as violence—to stop that from happening. Now would that be wrong? I’d say of course it wouldn’t. And I don’t see the difference, in moral terms, between someone beating their dog in the street and somebody torturing an animal in a laboratory.
~ Ronnie Lee”
― Jon Hochschartner, The Animals' Freedom Fighter: A Biography of Ronnie Lee, Founder of the Animal Liberation Front

“Speciesism blinds many. When we see all non human animals with our hearts, we see that they are all equal, all belong in our hearts and none belong in our stomachs.”
― Angie karan

“Go vegan for ALL the animals and end the blindness of speciesism. ALL animals deserve our love and consideration. ALL animals matter.”
― Angie karan

“All we are is a species, like millions of others. I think it's dangerous to think otherwise.”
― Gary Larson

“It isn't cockroaches, rats or leeches who're the real scum at all -- if it weren't for a certain single species; #humanbeings -- this beautiful unique planet would have nowhere near the devastation and colossal problems all of life on #earth now faces.”
― MuzWot

“[...] o reforço oculto do especismo está presente em qualquer discurso que subentenda que os danos para os animais não são razões suficientes para rejeitarmos as práticas especistas. A percepção do público geral é: "se mesmo os ativistas pensam que o sofrimento e as mortes dos animais não são suficientes para que a exploração deva ser abolida, então provavelmente não há nada de errado com prejudicar os animais".”
― Luciano Carlos Cunha, Uma breve introdução à ética animal: desde as questões clássicas até o que vem sendo discutido atualmente

“Uma visão predominante no movimento de defesa animal é a de que deveríamos deixar de prejudicar os animais não humanos com nossas práticas, mas que, em relação aos danos que sofrem em decorrência de processos naturais (como fome, sede, doenças, desastres naturais, etc.), deveríamos "deixar a natureza seguir o seu curso", e não interferir em suas vidas. Em contrapartida, os movimentos que lutam em defesa de humanos não defendem que o respeito pelos humanos deveria ser algo limitado somente a deixar de prejudicá-los com nossas práticas.”
― Luciano Carlos Cunha, Uma breve introdução à ética animal: desde as questões clássicas até o que vem sendo discutido atualmente

“By creating a false distinction between "good" and "bad" forms of animal exploitation and violence, the animal industry has convinced the public that there is nothing wrong with animal agriculture, per se, only with the way it is practiced. However, it isn't just the animal industry that has a stake in this. Capitalists and consumers, conservatives and liberals, small-scale farmers and corporate industrial farms alike all wish to re-"naturalize" animal husbandry as a permanent, benignant fixture of the human condition. The new hoax of "humane" meat is thus a convenience for all, a way to neutralize animal advocacy and to fend off the bad conscience of society." - The Humane Hoax”
― John Sanbonmatsu

“We need to stop talking about "factory farming." The problem is violence against animals. People will continue eating industrialized meat as long as they believe the myth that there is a "humane" alternative: "humane killing" discourse serves to legitimate the whole meat system.”
― John Sanbonmatsu

“The utilitarian-inflected discourse on animal "suffering" is the wrong point of emphasis. We need to talk instead about the fundamental causes of that suffering: human domination, exploitation, and mass killing of nonhuman animals. The problem isn't "suffering"; it's us.”
― John Sanbonmatsu

“Every significant philosopher of the last 2500 years has claimed that only humans are free, only humans have an ontological capacity for freedom. That is a lie. The condition for the possibility of freedom is merely the condition for the possibility of unfreedom.”
― John Sanbonmatsu

“The reason that we treat other animals as our slaves and as commodities isn't because they have this ontologically-rooted inferiority, it's that we see them as inferiors 'because' we find it useful to exploit them, and to harm them.”
― John Sanbonmatsu

“Let's all agree to stop using words like "pups," "kits," "chicks," "calves," etc., when referring to the young of other species. They are children. To use any other term is to reinforce the ideology of "otherness" that allows us to go on killing nonhuman animals with impunity.”
― John Sanbonmatsu

“All human culture is narcissistic: being based in the violent negation and exclusion of all other forms of animal life, it collapses into toxic self-love. It thus inevitably destroys its own object, too, i.e. itself, because genuine love requires an Other.”
― John Sanbonmatsu

“What does it mean to be human, when we've organized our whole identity, our whole economy, around harming our fellow creatures?”
― John Sanbonmatsu