Animal Testing Quotes

If you want to test cosmetics, why do it on some poor animal who hasn't done anything? They should use prisoners who have been convicted of murder or rape instead. So, rather than seeing if perfume irritates a bunny rabbit's eyes, they should throw it in Charles Manson's eyes and ask him if it hurts. ~ Ellen DeGeneres

Working in this industry, I have been exposed to so many products and now realize more than ever how cruel and unnecessary animal testing is. ~ Kesha

The medical argument for animal testing doesn't stand up. Even if it did, I don't think we should kill other species. We think we're so much better; I'm not sure we are. I tell people, We've beaten into submission every animal on the face of the Earth, so we are the clear winners of whatever battle is going on between the species. Couldn't we be generous? I really do think it's time to get nice. No need to keep beating up on them. I think we've got to show that we're kind. ~ Paul McCartney

I just love animals, and I'm an advocate for animals rights, and my family has rescued dogs from all over the world. I don't believe in animal testing. If you see me in fur, it's always fake. Sometimes you see me wearing skulls, but those are all from roadkill ~ Kesha

Giving cancer to laboratory animals has not and will not help us to understand the disease or to treat those persons suffering from it. ~ Albert Sabin

Animals can communicate quite well. And they do. And generally speaking, they are ignored ~ Alice Walker

The other animals humans eat, use in science, hunt, trap, and exploit in a variety of ways, have a life of their own that is of importance to them apart from their utility to us. They are not only in the world, they are aware of it. What happens to them matters to them. Each has a life that fares better or worse for the one whose life it is. ~ Tom Regan

I think animal testing is a terrible idea; they get all nervous and give the wrong answers. ~ Peter Kay

It is a legal requirement to carry out animal testing to ensure they are safe and effective ~ Paul Drayson, Baron Drayson

Animal testing doesn't actually teach us anything. It sure as heck doesn't teach them anything, either."
-Shenita Etwaroo ~ Shenita Etwaroo

One of the things that I have seen change that warms the cockles of my heart is what is happening in the cosmetics industry. For years, they were doing horrible things to animals in the manufacture of cosmetics, and testing of the most barbaric types; today, if you go into a drugstore and go down the [cosmetics] aisle, look at how many of them say no animal testing. I've talked with people who work in the cosmetics departments, and they tell me, Without that, you can't sell them. And that's wonderful! ~ Bob Barker

Animal testing, including vivisection, only tests the ability of the human being to be inhuman."
-Shenita Etwaroo ~ Shenita Etwaroo

Animal testing is needless, especially in cosmetics. ~ Leona Lewis

Scientists should not do animal testing if there is any alternative, but subject to that, I would support it on grounds of the medical benefits. ~ David Sainsbury, Baron Sainsbury Of Turville

I love to help women cut through all the labeling loopholes to find the best personal and oral care products on the market. This includes, of course, ingredients, but also recyclable packaging, products with expiration dates, examining company values (which includes no animal testing), and more. ~ Sophie Heyman Uliano

It seems to me of great importance to teach children respect for life. Towards this end, experiments on living animals in classrooms should be stopped. To encourage cruelty in the name of science can only destroy the finer emotions of affection and sympathy, and breed an unfeeling callousness in the young towards suffering in all living creatures. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

The right to lead a life free of fear is a fundamental right of all living beings. But this fundamental right is being brutally violated by humans in animal testing, meat and dairy industry, circus, zoos, aquariums, and sports. ~ Ama H. Vanniarachchy

I remember one bobcat they had in here - now bobcats are an endangered species in this neck of the woods - they'd caught it somewhere and they must have put that cat through a dozen rounds of burn experiments before they finally determined that it was utterly useless to them. Like an empty beer can. And then you know what they did to it? Claudius was late for a lunch date so rather thanput the destroyed but still breathing animal to sleep, he picked it up by its hind legs and simply smashed its head against a wall repeatedly until it was dead. How can I forget it: I was the one told to clean up the mess. The head dented in. The eyes slowly closing. The once proud claws hanging down, stunned and lifeless, the utter senselessness of it all, and the hate, a hatred that was consummated in me which is as dangerous a hormone, or chemical, or portion of the brain, as any neutron bomb. Except that I didnt know how to explode. I was like a computer without a keyboard, a bird without wings. Roaring inside. I wanted to kill that man. To do unto others what they had done unto me. I was that bobcat, you better believe it. ~ Michael Tobias

Cruelty is one fashion statement we can all do without. ~ Rue McClanahan

During my medical education at the University of Basle I found vivisection horrible, barbarous and above all unnecessary ~ Carl Jung

My own experience of over 60 years in biomedical research amply demonstrated that without the use of animals and of human beings, it would have been impossible to acquire the important knowledge needed to prevent much suffering and premature death not only among humans but also among [other] animals. ~ Albert Sabin

[My work] includes something about death, and about love, because the photos always have something to do with death. The photograph is like taxidermy. It is like the animals I use. They are posed in order to appear to be alive, but they are dead. Their time has passed. The photos have to do with time and loss, and conclusion. ~ Annette Messager

The painter's mind is a copy of the divine mind, since it operates freely in creating the many kinds of animals, plants, fruits, landscapes, countrysides, ruins, and awe-inspiring places. ~ Leonardo Da Vinci

I was never a keeper of sheep ~ Alberto Caeiro

The way animals were and are abused appalls me to this very day. ~ Marie Windsor

You can achieve a shallow local maximum with A/B testing - but you'll never win hearts and minds. ~ Jeff Atwood

If he was to be treated no better than an animal, he would at least learn the limits of his cage. ~ Shira Anthony

The scientific name for an animal that doesn't either run from or fight its own enemies is lunch. ~ Michael Jan Friedman

These aren't accidents. They are significant choices, like the choice of a totemic animal: something in your spirit aligns with theirs. ~ Phyllis Rose

But in every constitution some large degree of animal vigor is necessary as material foundation for the higher qualities of the art. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Who knew that the Wyr warlord's real animal form was a mother hen? ~ Thea Harrison

What we saw in the mirror was some odd animal making faces. We were hungry, but we knew there was no food. We walked alone, occasionally bumping into each other, and could do little but wait for the agony to descend on us again. ~ Andre Solnikkar

Domesticated animals such as dogs and cats are vulnerable and entirely dependent on us for all of their needs. They live very unnatural lives because they are not part of the human world and they are not part of the animal world. ~ Gary L. Francione

I suspected he was testing me, trying to wear me out, so the few times he turned, I forced myself to walk erect, a careless half smile pasted to my face. As soon as his back was turned, though, I slumped over like an abandoned puppet. ~ Madhuri Vijay

yet to be moved by music is essentially human; it reflects sensitivity. The life Gregor led as a human being left no room for this kind of appreciation. But, regressing into an animal, his sensibility has become refined rather than coarsened. ~ Franz Kafka

I seemed like a baby bird keeping its truly innocent animal lusts hidden under its wing. I was being tempted, not by the desire of possession, but simply by unadorned temptation itself. ~ Yukio Mishima

People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal. ~ Herbert Spencer

'Meat' is a vague term and can be used to refer to many parts of an animal, including internal organs and skin. For the most part, the meat we eat consists of muscle tissue taken from farm animals, whether it's a sirloin steak, which is cut from the rear of a cow, or a pork chop, taken from flesh near the spine of a pig. ~ Michael Specter

In the Gaia theory air, water, and soil are major components of one central organism, planet Earth. What we typically think of as life - the plants and animals that inhabit the earth - has evolved merely to regulate the chemistry of the biosphere. Humans are insignificant participants, far less important to the life cycle than termites. Even the imbalance that we have created by adding massive quantities of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere may be brought back to acceptable levels by other organisms functioning in their capacity to correct excesses. ~ David Easton

She couldn't pinpoint the exact moment she'd fallen in love with Jace, but there had always been something about him that reminded her of a lion, a wild animal unfettered by rules, the promise of a life of freedom. Never "I can't," but always "I can." Always the risk and the surety, never the fear or the question. ~ Cassandra Clare

You've got to struggle against the pollution of intelligence in order to become an animal with very sharp instincts - a sort of intuitive medium - so that to photograph becomes a magical act, and slowly other more suggestive images begin to appear behind the visible image, for which the photographer cannot be held responsible. ~ Robert Doisneau

You used to own the night and put it to good use, during that sweet spot after your father could no longer tell you when to go to sleep and before you shared an apartment with someone else. Is togetherness killing your productivity? When's the last time you stayed up until 4:00 a.m. testing the boundaries of your consciousness and Googling serial killers? But then you remember how hard it was, that moment between wakefulness and sleep. How the moment of settling down was almost physically painful, your mind pulling away from your body like a balloon being sucked into the atmosphere. He settles that. He tells you that your day was rich enough and now it is time to wind down. He helps you sleep. People need sleep. ~ Lena Dunham

When the Pleiades and the wind in the grass are no longer a part of the human spirit, a part of very flesh and bone, man becomes, as it were, a kind of cosmic outlaw, having neither the completeness nor integrity of the animal nor the birthright of a true humanity. ~ Henry Beston

It was so cold today that I saw a dog chasing a cat, and the dog was walking. ~ Mickey Rivers

Experimental investigation, to borrow a phrase employed by Kepler respecting the testing of hypotheses, is "a very great thief of time." Sometimes it costs many days to determine a fact that can be stated in a line. ~ John William Draper

Most animal species stuck together in packs or schools, flocks or herds. But human beings separated themselves and sat behind locked doors. ~ Mia Zabrisky

If I had my personal view, perhaps that might take hold. In fact, I don't want to see another dog or cat born. ~ Wayne Pacelle

Believe me, the so-called primitive races who worshipped animals as gods were not so daft as people choose to pretend. At least they were humble. Why should not God have come to the earth as an earth-worm? There are a great many more worms than men, and they do a great deal more good. ~ T.H. White

The selfless love that we give to others, to the point of being willing to sacrifice our lives for them, is all the proof I need that human beings are not mere animals of self-interest. We carry within us a divine spark, and if we chose to recognize it, our lives have dignity, meaning, hope. ~ Dean Koontz

The somatotype of the cat or any animal from quadruped to biped partially determines the perspective of the creature. The physiology of any given creature will alter its understanding of its environment. A close look then at the physiology of cats and dogs and one biped, in particular, the primate, should give anyone a clear reason for the biological and psychological shaping of religion. This examination of cats, dogs and then other primates, humanity's cousins, in comparison with some religious ideals, will show just how physiological perspectives would and have influenced religious dogma or cat-ma as the case may be. ~ Leviak B. Kelly

The creature all men on Arrakis fear, you treat it like a riding animal. ~ Frank Herbert

Regan wasn't even sure what to say. They wanted to give her baby a demon animal that ate people. A furry land shark. it was enough to make her want to hyperventilate. ~ Larissa Ione

If an animal does something, we call it instinct. If we do the same thing for the same reason, we call it intelligence. ~ Will Cuppy

He's a feral child. No mother, no father, no one to care for him or raise him or teach him how to be human. So he's existed much like an animal, without language. He thinks in images, not word."
"How strange," Lanaya, sounding amazed.
Ryter shakes his head sadly. "Not strange, I'm afaraid. His condition is all too common in the latches. And becoming more common every day. ~ Rodman Philbrick

As far as the underground liberation movement, it won't have any impact at all because they don't really care about those laws. Their activities - sabotaging, liberating animals - are already illegal so just adding one more law won't make much difference. ~ Jerry Vlasak

man is the only animal that is clever enough to build the empire state building and stupid enough to jump off. ~ Rock Hudson

I still believe that a plant-based diet has tremendous health benefits, but I have incorporated more animal protein into my diet. I found that my body personally got to a point where I needed something more. ~ Bob Harper

There's no way that we can delude ourselves into believing that hunting is a sport. Does the other team know they're playing? Didn't think so."
-Shenita Etwaroo ~ Shenita Etwaroo

I went to a heavy metal concert. The singer yelled out, "How many of you people feel like human beings tonight?" And then he said, "How many of you feel like animals?" The thing is, everyone cheered after the animals part, but I cheered after the human beings part because I did not know there was a second part to the question. ~ Mitch Hedberg