We do not need to eat animals, wear animals, or use animals for entertainment purposes, and our only defense of these uses is our pleasure, amusement, and convenience.

The proposition that humans have mental characteristics wholly absent in non-humans is inconsistent with the theory of evolution.

Because animals are property, we consider as "humane treatment" that we would regard as torture if it were inflicted on humans.

We do not need to eat animals, wear animals, or use animals for entertainment purposes, and our only defense of these uses is our pleasure, amusement, and convenience.

Because animals are property, we consider as 'humane treatment' that we would regard as torture if it were inflicted on humans.

Just as we reject racism, sexism, ageism, and heterosexism, we reject speciesism. The species of a sentient being is no more reason to deny the protection of this basic right than race, sex, age, or sexual orientation is a reason to deny membership in the human moral community to other humans.

Michael Vick may enjoy watching dogs fight. Someone else may find that repulsive but see nothing wrong with eating an animal who has had a life as full of pain and suffering as the lives of the fighting dogs. It's strange that we regard the latter as morally different from, and superior to, the former.

Most of the time, those who use animals in experiments justify that use by pointing to alleged benefits to human and animal health and the supposed necessity of using animals to obtain those benefits.

There is increasing social concern about our use of nonhumans for experiments, food, clothing and entertainment. This concern about animals reflects both our own moral development as a civilization and our recognition that the differences between humans and animals are, for the most part, differences of degree and not of kind.

There is no 'need' for us to eat meat, dairy or eggs. Indeed, these foods are increasingly linked to various human diseases and animal agriculture is an environmental disaster for the planet.

There is no moral distinction between fur and other materials made from animals, such as leather, which also is the result of the suffering and death of sentient beings.

We do not think clearly about our moral obligations to animals.

We eat animals because they taste good. And if that's O.K., what's wrong with wearing fur? We need as a society to think seriously about our institutionalized animal use.

Every time you drink a glass of milk or eat a piece of cheese, you harm a mother. Please go vegan.

It costs us so little to go vegan. It costs animals so much if we don't.

Any serious social, political, and economic change must include veganism.

You cannot live a nonviolent life as long as you are consuming violence. Please consider going vegan.

Veganism is not a sacrifice. It is a joy.

Ethical veganism represents a commitment to nonviolence.

Welfare reforms and the whole happy exploitation movement are not baby steps. They are big steps “in a seriously backward direction.

Romance, like the rabbit at the dog track, is the elusive, fake, and never attained reward which, for the benefit and amusement of our masters, keeps us running and thinking in safe circles.

A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.

A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat.

In one book, CACHALOT, just for my own amusement, every character is based directly on someone I have known.

This is real human drama, we're not creating some amusement park ride for the summer. Even though the movie is really exciting to watch, it's got a real pathos behind it.

Films have degenerated to their original operation as carnival amusement - they offer not drama but thrills.

Looking at yourself through the media is like looking at one of those rippled mirrors in an amusement park.

Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their amusement.

I don't enjoy getting knocked about on a football field for other people's amusement. I enjoy it if I'm being paid a lot for it.

I've included these little jokes and mysteries in my writing for the amusement of readers.

We grew out of the superhero comics, but we still liked comics, so we started putting our own experiences in the stories we were doing for our own amusement.

I would rather write for the instruction, or even the amusement of the poor than for the amusement of the rich.

One of the men attached to the prison was the occasion of great amusement on the part of the prisoners, as well as the spectators, by taking a large lump of ice to show these strangers from the tropics.

I look just like the girls next door... if you happen to live next door to an amusement park.

You can't live on amusement. It is the froth on water - an inch deep and then the mud.

To me, watching a movie is like going to an amusement park. My worst fear is making a film that people don't think is a good ride.

I was staying with my sister and messing around with the guitar every day for my own amusement. Then she took me around and introduced me to Muddy Waters, Jimmy Rogers, Little Walter, and the first time I saw that onstage, it inspired me to play. I thought that was the world.

My idea of an amusement park story is getting adventurers to go tour environmental disaster areas. After all, if the entire Great Barrier Reef gets killed, which seems like an extremely lively possibility, what are you going to do with all that rotting limestone?

I'm too short to host a late-night talk show. It's like the bar at an amusement-park ride. You have to be six foot two or over.

I'm not here for your amusement. You're here for mine.

Art is creative for the sake of realization, not for amusement... for transfiguration, not for the sake of play.

Death seems to provide the minds of the Anglo-Saxon race with a greater fund of amusement than any other single subject.

Since the printing press came into being, poetry has ceased to be the delight of the whole community of man; it has become the amusement and delight of the few.

We do not need to eat animals, wear animals, or use animals for entertainment purposes, and our only defense of these uses is our pleasure, amusement, and convenience.

I'm very good with technology, I always have been, and with machines in general. They seem not threatening like other people find them, but a source of fun and amusement.

Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.

While the laughter of joy is in full harmony with our deeper life, the laughter of amusement should be kept apart from it. The danger is too great of thus learning to look at solemn things in a spirit of mockery, and to seek in them opportunities for exercising wit.

Painting is not for me either decorative amusement, or the plastic invention of felt reality; it must be every time: invention, discovery, revelation.

To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of amusement.