Joanna Krupa Quotes

I've always loved animals and I always thought that they were, if not better, then the absolute equal of any two legged creature that God ever created.

Every animal has his or her story, his or her thoughts, daydreams, and interests. All feel joy and love, pain and fear, as we now know beyond any shadow of a doubt. All deserve that the human animal afford them the respect of being cared for with great consideration for those interests or left in peace.

We recognize the chicken as another conscious being. It's different from us, but it has a life, and if something is really important for that chicken, if it would work hard to try to get it, and if we can give it without sacrificing something that's really important to us, then we should.

My mother early on taught us to respect all animals, and I mean all animals - not just cats and dogs but rats and snakes and spiders and fish and wildlife, so I really grew up believing they are just like us and just as deserving of consideration.

I grew up with lots of animals and I related more to them than I did to people. I feel a lot of empathy for them.

All the arguments to prove man's superiority cannot shatter this hard fact: in suffering the animals are our equals.

When you meet chimps you meet individual personalities. When a baby chimp looks at you it's just like a human baby. We have a responsibility to them.

The question is not, 'Can they reason?' nor, 'Can they talk?' but rather, 'Can they suffer?'

I love animals, and I feel more of a connection to animals than people.

We are not the only animal that mourns; apes do, and elephants, and dogs. Yet we are the only one that tortures.

The fate of animals is of greater importance to me than the fear of appearing ridiculous; it is indissolubly connected with the fate of men.

I do not believe you can work with animals - certainly you cannot train them - without deciding that if humans have souls, dogs do, too.

Anytime you work with animals, you begin to see more humanity in them.

I do love animals so much, and have a great respect for them emotionally and intellectually, because they are so different from human beings.

We're all animals.

Sometimes I read about someone saying with great authority that animals have no intentions and no feelings, and I wonder, 'Doesn't this guy have a dog?'

I just want to reflect the respect I have for animals.

The industrial food system is so cruel and so horrific in its treatment of animals. It never asks the question: 'Should a pig be allowed to express its pig-ness?'

Animals are thinking, feeling creatures. They're sensitive.

Humanity evolves when we realise that animals have the same rights to the Earth as we do.

Although we have, in theory, abolished human slavery, recognized women's rights, and stopped child labor, we continue to enslave other species who, if we simply pay attention, show quite clearly that they experience parental love, pain, and the desire for freedom, just as we do.

I'm always pushing for human responsibility. Given that chimpanzees and many other animals are sentient and sapient, then we should treat them with respect.

The older I get, the more individuality I find in animals and the less I find in humans.

I would look at a dog and when our eyes met, I realized that the dog and all creatures are my family. They're like you and me.

I have such a passion because I adore animals so much.