Alan Dershowitz Quotes

States should pass laws making it illegal to own or trade wild animals; the phony 'educational' permits that many private owners have used to skirt those laws should be eliminated.

I did not actually run down a deer for 'Tammy,' I promise.

Conservatives like to think of animal protection as a trendy leftist cause, which makes it easier to brush off. And I hope that more of us will open our hearts to animals.

I was always into animals and animal protection, ever since I was growing up.

Man's highest duty is to protect animals from cruelty.

Generally, or at least very often, people with a deep interest in animals are the best people around.

I want medical experiments on animals stopped. They don't do anything, and they don't work.

I love animals, always have, and it seemed natural to help the ASPCA. Animals have no voice of their own, so we have to be that voice.

If I hammer my own thumb while doing some DIY, it's not nice, but it's not the end of the world. To care obsessively about similar levels of discomfort in animals seems to be a case of mistaken moral priorities.

Shelters, conservationists, those concerned about unnecessary cruelty toward the animals we eat, and people working against species extinction fight to preserve the true riches of our planet, our real inheritance. These are big, critical goals.

Terms like that, 'Humane Society,' are devised with people like me in mind, who don't care to dwell on what happens to the innocent.

He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.

Protecting animals is very important to me, and I think speaking out against fur is an amazing cause.

We do not think clearly about our moral obligations to animals.

I am a very good shot. I have hunted for every kind of animal. But I would never kill an animal during mating season.

Never wound a snake; kill it.

Animals mean everything to me. We have to be their voice and protectors.

Bolivia recently did what every country should do - banned the use of animals in circuses.

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

I'm totally against animal cruelty. I don't have clothes, shoes or bags made from any animal products.

I am not brutal or cruel to animals. My mission has always been to save dogs - especially troubled and abandoned dogs. I've dedicated my life to this.

Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind - it is only the difference in the victim.

I'm very touched on a deep level by cruelty to animals.

To save an animal's life in order that it may suffer indefinitely is something I would never condone.

We eat animals because they taste good. And if that's O.K., what's wrong with wearing fur? We need as a society to think seriously about our institutionalized animal use.