Joaquin Phoenix Animal Rights Quotes

We are all animals of this planet. We are all creatures. And nonhuman animals experience pain sensations just like we do. They too are strong, intelligent, industrious, mobile, and evolutional. They too are capable of growth and adaptation. Like us, firsthand foremost, they are earthlings. And like us, they are surviving. Like us they also seek their own comfort rather than discomfort. And like us they express degrees of emotion. In short like us, they are alive. ~ Joaquin Phoenix

It takes nothing away from a human to be kind to an animal. ~ Joaquin Phoenix

If someone is killing, on a regular basis, thousands of animals, and if that person can only be stopped in one way by the use of violence, then it is certainly a morally justifiable solution. ~ Jerry Vlasak

Most people I've met who weren't kind to animal, weren't kind to people either. Kindness is kindness. Simple as that. Barbaric activities such as hunting should be consigned to the history books. ~ Fuad Alakbarov

My body is not a tomb for animals. ~ Leonardo Da Vinci

For an animal to attack you, you must smell or look either dangerous, or delicious, or at least nutritious. ~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

An animal in pain is the saddest thing on Earth. ~ Sanober Khan

Perhaps the mere idea of receiving a nasty missive will allow animal researchers to empathize with their victims for the first time in their lousy careers. I find it small wonder that the laboratories aren't all burning to the ground. If I had more guts, I'd light a match. ~ Ingrid Newkirk

I think Dario Ringach is a poster boy for the concept that the use of force or the threat of force is an effective means to stop people who abuse animals," "No strictly peaceful movement has succeeded in liberation," "I think the animal rights movement has been restrained in its use of force, mostly because people in the struggle are often people of privilege who aren't willing to risk losing that privilege. ~ Jerry Vlasak

I am not an animal in my personal life. But in the ring there is an animal inside me. Sometimes it roars when the first bell rights. Sometimes it springs out later in a fight. But i can always feel it there, driving me and pushing me forward. It is what makes me win. It makes me enjoy fighting. ~ Roberto Duran

Humans hunt and kill maneaters.
What if animals hunted animal eaters?! ~ Manoj Vaz

The fact that there are bigger injustices and wrongs doesn't make it right to sacrifice an innocent monkey. It doesn't alter the case at all. ~ Brigid Brophy

I've broken an arm before, but no one wanted to shoot me!' Suzie says. 'I mean, when you go to the emergency room I hope to God the doctors don't decide it might cost too much to care for.' -Suzie Schwab co-owner of East Maui Animal Refuge ~ Toni Polancy

While law-abiding Muslims are forced to hide in their homes, and animal-rights activists are labeled as terrorists for undercover filming of abusive treatment at factory farms, right-wing hate groups are free to organize, parade, arm themselves to the hilt and murder with chilling regularity. It's time for our society to confront this very real threat. ~ Amy Goodman

I want to know how these very people who are against war because of loss of life can possibly be the same people who are for abortion? They are the same people who are for animal rights, but they are not for the rights of the unborn. ~ Jim Gibbons

People get offended by animal rights campaigns. It's ludicrous. It's not as bad as mass animal death in a factory. ~ Richard Gere

We must look deeply. When we buy something or consume something, we may be participating in an act of killing. This precept [non-killing] reflects our determination not to kill, either directly or indirectly, and also to prevent others from killing. ~ Nhat Hanh

I guess my experience with some stuff is kind of abstract. ~ Joaquin Phoenix

I've become an animal rights activist. ~ Steve Wynn

No one in the world needs a Rhino horn but a Rhino. ~ Paul Oxton

For all we know that English people are/ Fed upon beef - I won't say much of beer/ Because 'tis liquor only, and being far/ From this my subject, has no business here;/ We know too, they are very fond of war,/ A pleasure - like all pleasures - rather dear;/ So were the Cretans - from which I infer/ That beef and battle both were owing her ~ Lord Byron

I think I've kind of been mistaken for somebody who's trying to be a spokesperson for animal rights, and the fact is I'm not qualified to be a spokesperson. I am passionate about it, but I'm not trying to make other people do what I do. ~ Neko Case

I don't believe there is any justifiable reason for killing any animal unless perhaps if it's killing you! That would be negotiable. ~ Chrissie Hynde

Societies that lack respect for animals eventually lose respect for human beings. ~ Wayne Gerard Trotman

There is no best anything in art. Phillip [Hoffman] isn't better than Heath [Ledger]; Joaquin [Phoenix] isn't better than David [Strathairn] or Terence [Howard]. They aren't better than me. We all do different things. It's more of a celebration of a lot of great work than to give the gold to somebody. The underappreciated factor certainly has gone away. ~ Jeff Daniels

This isn't a hunt that's going to kill just four or five gray whales. The repercussions of this will have an effect on tens of thousands of whales that will be killed by the Japanese and Norwegians. ~ Paul Watson

When I go out with the ladies, I don't force them to pronounce my name. I tell them I like to go by the nickname of Kitten. ~ Joaquin Phoenix

It is not your right - based on YOUR traditions, YOUR customs and YOUR habits - to deny animals THEIR freedom so you can harm them, enslave them and kill them. Thats not what rights are about. Thats injustice. There is no counter-argument to veganism. Accept it. Apologize for the way youve been living. Make amends and move forward. ~ Gary Yourofsky

Animal rights, taken to their logical conclusion, mean votes for oysters. ~ Bertrand Russell

Hunting and fishing involve killing animals with devices (such as guns) for which the animals have not evolved natural defenses. No animal on earth has adequate defense against a human armed with a gun, a bow and arrow, a trap that can maim, a snare that can strangle, or a fishing lure designed for the sole purpose of fooling fish into thinking they have found something to eat ~ Marc Bekoff

But those who are incapable of
pitying animals are, as a matter of fact, incapable of pitying men.
A physician who would cut a living rabbit in pieces
laying bare
the nerves, denuding them with knives, pulling them out with
forceps
would not hesitate to try experiments with men and women
for the gratification of his curiosity. ~ Robert G. Ingersoll

I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people. ~ George Bernard Shaw

Eating animals involves an intentional decision to participate in the suffering and death of nonhumans where there is no plausible moral justification. ~ Gary L. Francione

So long as men are compassionate to such a degree that they cannot hear a fly struggling in a spider's web without emotion it can never be reasonably maintained that it is their natural impulse to wound and kill the dumb animals, or to butcher one another in what is called the field of honour. ~ John Newton

The offers were, like, a lot of money - maybe not for other actors, but definitely for me. But I don't want that power. I don't want $20-million power. ~ Joaquin Phoenix

Eventually companion animals would be phased out, and we would return to a more symbiotic relationship, enjoyment at a distance. ~ Ingrid Newkirk

I love having a master. I have no problem serving my director. That's my job. I want to make them happy. ~ Joaquin Phoenix

We feel that animals have the same rights as retarded human nchild because they are equal mentally in terms of dependence on others. ~ Alex Pacheco

Ecology more important than saving animals from slavery??? Humans suffer the raping of the earth but animals suffer DOUBLY: the raping of the earth PLUS their own raping by humans. They are innocent/they are not the ones who raped the earth/they enrich it for us all from the tiniest microscopic beings to the largest ones. ~ Adela Popescu

Animals have few rights, but they have every right to be here ~ Anthony Douglas

Sometimes all you need is a big heart and burning desire. ~ Bernard Jan

I would look at a dog and when our eyes met, I realized that the dog and all creatures are my family. They're like you and me. ~ Ziggy Marley

Elephants live in a world where they know their actions affect those around them. We should all be more like elephants. ~ Stephanie Feldstein

[T]he moralists of Europe [have] pretended that beasts have no rights ... a doctrine revolting/gross/barbarous ... on which a native of the Asiatic uplands could not look without righteous horror ... ~ Arthur Schopenhauer

Animal abusers are not the only culprits - the consumers are the biggest abusers! As long as buyers, users, attendees at animal performances, etc., keep using, abusers keep abusing!!! ~ Adela Popescu

I'm such an advocate for animal rights and environmental rights. ~ Beau Garrett

If you are not filled with overflowing love, compassion and goodwill for all creatures living wild in nature, You will never know true happiness. ~ Paul Oxton

He who is not actively kind is cruel! ~ John Ruskin