A lot of people have culturally induced ethical blindness, but they can be cured! Ingrid Newkirk More Quotes by Ingrid Newkirk More Quotes From Ingrid Newkirk All tyranny, bigotry, aggression, and cruelty are wrong, and whenever we see it, we must never be silent. Ingrid Newkirk cruelty silent tyranny We do not advocate 'right to life' for animals. Ingrid Newkirk peta right-to-life animal Eating meat is primitive, barbaric, and arrogant. Ingrid Newkirk eating-meat arrogant animal-rights Probably everything we do is a publicity stunt ... we are not here to gather members, to please, to placate, to make friends. We're here to hold the radical line. Ingrid Newkirk publicity lines animal 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. Ingrid Newkirk wish order thinking Our nonviolent tactics are not as effective. We ask nicely for years and get nothing. Someone makes a threat, and it works. Ingrid Newkirk tactics animal years 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. Ingrid Newkirk dog animal boys One day, we would like an end to pet shops and the breeding of animals. Ingrid Newkirk ends pet animal Euthanasia is the kindest gift to a dog or cat unwanted and unloved. Ingrid Newkirk euthanasia cat dog The bottom line is that people dont have the right to manipulate or to breed dogs and cats ... If people want toys, they should buy inanimate objects. If they want companionship, they should seek it with their own kind. Ingrid Newkirk cat dog people Even if animal experiments did result in a cure for AIDS, of which there is no chance, I'd be against it on moral grounds. Ingrid Newkirk moral chance animal I plan to send my liver somewhere in France, to protest foie gras (liver pate) ... I plan to have handbags made from my skin ... and an umbrella stand made from my seat. Ingrid Newkirk handbags france skins ...no movement for social change has ever succeeded without 'the militarism component'....Thinkers may prepare revolutions, but bandits must carry them out Ingrid Newkirk revolution may animal If my father had a heart attack it would give me no solace at all to know his treatment was first tried on a dog. Ingrid Newkirk dog heart father Pigeons are gentle and smart and have complex social relationships. Their hearing and vision are both excellent. Ingrid Newkirk hearing smart vision Going meat-free can make a huge difference. Studies show that vegetarians are, on average, 10 to 20 pounds lighter than meat-eaters and that a vegetarian diet reduces our risk of heart disease by 40 percent and adds seven or more years to our lifespan. Ingrid Newkirk vegetarian-diet heart average I think if you're against cruelty and you look at what happens to animals in slaughterhouses and on factory farms, you have to be completely against eating meat. Ingrid Newkirk meat animal thinking All of us in society are supposed to believe that cruelty to animals is wrong and that it is a good thing to prevent needless suffering. So if that is true, how can meat be acceptable under any but the most extraordinary circumstances, such as perhaps roasting the bird who died flying into a window? Ingrid Newkirk animal bird believe Real nutrition comes from soybeans, almonds, rice, and other healthy vegetable sources, not from a cow's udder. Ingrid Newkirk healthy vegetables real When we build an attractive home, we raze land on which animals have already built their homes. They have nowhere to go. Ingrid Newkirk land home animal