Animal Activism Quotes

“Zeena Schreck is a Berlin-based interdisciplinary artist, author, musician/composer, tantric teacher, mystic, animal rights activist, and counter-culture icon known by her mononymous artist name, ZEENA. Her work stems from her experience within the esoteric, shamanistic and magical traditions of which she's practiced, taught and been initiated. She is a practicing Tibetan Buddhist yogini, teaches at the Buddhistische Gesellschaft Berlin and is the spiritual leader of the Sethian Liberation Movement (SLM).”
― Zeena Schreck

“The slaughter of dolphins and other marine mammals is no more horrible than captive dolphins performing tricks because it's not just dolphins were talking about, it's also people. Especially children [...] The effect is devastatingly the same because millions of people every year who watch and cheer this spectacle of dominance are in some way also cheering every other form of environmental ravishment. If dolphin is a reference point in our relationship with nature, then when we teach people that it's okay to abuse dolphins, we're teaching them that it's also okay to abuse the rest of nature.”
― Richard O'Barry, To Free a Dolphin

“You can’t preach things like spirituality, yoga, or animal activism to someone who hasn’t had a decent meal in days...”
― Dr. Deepak S. Hiwale aka 'Dr Dee'

“A certain twisted, but all-too-common, interpretation of the Golden Rule is that we should ‘do unto others in order to get them to do unto us’.”
― Alastair Norcross, Puppies, Pigs, and People: Eating Meat and Marginal Cases

“Around the world, about a thousand dolphins are held in captivity, while millions have been killed in purse seine tuna nets and drift nets. Tens of thousands of others have been "sacrificed" in the name of scientific research, some marine mammals merely to find out what they've been eating.”
― Richard O'Barry, To Free a Dolphin

“I'm fighting now only for individual captive dolphins and dolphins in general but also for people, for the mind and sensibilities of future generations toward the world itself.”
― Richard O'Barry, To Free a Dolphin

“The activist path is not easy, but it is the only reasonable path for those who desire change.”
― Lisa Kemmerer, Sister Species: Women, Animals and Social Justice

“So while other teenagers were stuck in classrooms studying textbooks and taking notes during lectures, I was already out in the world, having dived head first into working for social change. I was learning complicated adult lessons in activism, campaign strategy, public relations, mass media, and corporate relations. And I was able to travel around the country, even if that sometimes meant seeing it through the eyeholes of an animal costume.”
― Nathan Runkle, Mercy For Animals: One Man's Quest to Inspire Compassion and Improve the Lives of Farm Animals

“That animals can’t be moral agents doesn’t seem to be relevant to their status as moral patients.”
― Alastair Norcross, Puppies, Pigs, and People: Eating Meat and Marginal Cases