Animal Equality Quotes

I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.

All men are equal before fish.

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

Family is family. I grew up in a household where all the four-legged animals were as important as the two-legged animals.

You shouldn't say 'animals' to distinguish between humans and non-humans. We are all animals.

To me, it is one world, and the non-human animals bear the brunt of oppression and suffering.

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.

If only someone would do for cows what Bambi did for deer. Cows have been in films, but they haven't starred. I'm still willing to eat a species that is only a supporting player.

And there begins a lang digression about the lords o' the creation.

Animals are just as important as we are.

Life is life - whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat or a man. The idea of difference is a human conception for man's own advantage.

We all love the environment, but we have placed creatures above people. A rat is a rat.

The Seven Commandments: Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy. Whatever goes upon four legs, or has wings, is a friend. No animal shall wear clothes. No animal shall sleep in a bed. No animal shall drink alcohol. No animal shall kill any other animal. All animals are equal.

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.

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 friends at PeTA India and I encourage everyone to treat animals with kindness and respect, just as we all want to be treated every day.

Four legs good, two legs bad.

The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.

Sometimes I think man needs to feel a special position within nature, and this leads him to believe that he is either specially hated by other animals or specially cherished. Instead of the truth, which is that he's just another animal on the plain. A smart one, but just another animal.

The cat joined the Re-education Committee and was very active in it for some days. She was seen one dag sitting on a roof and talking to some sparrows who were just out of her reach. She was telling them that all animals were now comrades and that any sparrow who chose could come and perch on her paw; but the sparrows kept their distance.

We're all animals, high school is animals, but some of us are more animal than others. Like in 'Animal Farm,' which I read, all animals are created equal, but some are more equal than others? Here in the real world, all equals are created animal, but some are more animal than others.

Nothing can be more obvious than that all animals were created solely and exclusively for the use of man.

A pig is a pig no matter whose pigpen it's in.

Too often, animal-rights supporters seem to care about animals to the exclusion of people.

We're one of the only animals in the world that don't really think of ourselves as animals, but we are animals, and we must respect our fellow animals.