“Abolitionism, in this context, means that our institutionalized exploitation of nonhuman animals should be ended and not merely regulated.”— Gary L. Francione
“What I don't understand about the animal-rights people is why they are so much more interested in animals than they are in people.”— Cleveland Amory
“When it comes to pain, love, joy, loneliness, and fear, a rat is a pig is a dog is a boy.”— Ingrid Newkirk
“We should not be bringing more domesticated animals into existence for our use as resources.”— Gary L. Francione
“Until we consider animal life to be worthy of the same consideration as our own, we will never have a civilized society.”— Gerald Durrell
“Animals have a right to their own lives. They are not our property. We are not their masters.”— Jorja Fox
“If we are to create a more peaceful world, we must start by extending our circle of compassion to include all living beings.”— Jon Wynne-Tyson
“My message is simple: animals are not ours to use for entertainment, or for medicine, or for any other purpose that causes them suffering.”— Jill Robinson
“What I think about vivisection is that if people admit that they have the right to take or endanger the life of living beings for the benefit of many, there is no argument by which they can object to the extermination of the human race for the benefit of the microbes.”— Brigid Brophy
“Let me say it openly: we are surrounded by an enterprise of degradation, cruelty, and killing which rivals anything that the Third Reich was capable of, indeed dwarfs it, in that ours is an enterprise without end, self-regenerating, bringing rabbits, rats, poultry, livestock ceaselessly into the world for the purpose of killing them.”— J. M. Coetzee