Ingrid Newkirk Quotations | Page 2

Cows are gentle, interesting animals.

A rat is a pig is a dog is a boy.

I will be the last person to condemn ALF [the Animal Liberation Front].

...no movement for social change has ever succeeded without 'the militarism component'....Thinkers may prepare revolutions, but bandits must carry them out

Animal liberationists do not separate out the human animal, so there is no rational basis for saying that a human being has special rights. A rat is a pig is a dog is a boy. They're all mammals.

Euthanasia is the kindest gift to a dog or cat unwanted and unloved.

I find that as I get older I seem to become more of a Luddite... And hearing animal experimenters describe me as a Luddite--which used to think I was not. And now I think Ned Lud had the right idea and we should have stopped all the machinery way back when, and learned to live simple lives.

Six million Jews died in concentration camps, but six billion broiler chickens will die this year in slaughter houses.

Eating meat is primitive, barbaric, and arrogant.

In order to be kind, one must do. There is no point in thinking good thoughts and not acting on them. There is no currency in wishing things were better but not rolling up one's sleeves and helping to change them.

Our nonviolent tactics are not as effective. We ask nicely for years and get nothing. Someone makes a threat, and it works.

In the end, I think it would be lovely if we stopped this whole notion of pets altogether,

Pet ownership is an absolutely abysmal situation brought about by human manipulation.

You dont have to own squirrels and starlings to get enjoyment from them ... One day, we would like an end to pet shops and the breeding of animals. [Dogs] would pursue their natural lives in the wild ... they would have full lives, not wasting at home for someone to come home in the evening and pet them and then sit there and watch TV,

Pet ownership is slavery. Animals are not ours to eat, wear, experiment on, or be entertained by.

Anybody who witnesses the suffering of animals and has a glimmer of hope of reducing that suffering can't take the position that it's all or nothing. We have to be pragmatic. Screw the principle.

The extinction of Homo Sapiens would mean survival for millions, if not billions, of Earth-dwelling species. Phasing out the human race will solve every problem on Earth - social and environmental.

Recognize meat for what it really is: the antibiotic- and pesticide-laden corpse of a tortured animal.

We have to be aggressive when those we stick up for have no voice. I don't consider it radical to say cruelty is wrong and that animals should be respected. I consider it radical to eat corpses, put electrodes in animals' heads, make elephants live in chains in the circus, and poison animals we consider a nuisance.

a great way to bring about animal liberation.