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Having a purebred human baby is like having a purebred dog; it's nothing but vanity, human vanity.
— Ingrid Newkirk
I have to think of the positive; that's how I cope.
— Ingrid Newkirk
We're looking for good lawsuits that will establish the interests of animals as a legitimate area of concern in law.
— Ingrid Newkirk
When we build an attractive home, we raze land on which animals have already built their homes. They have nowhere to go.
— Ingrid Newkirk
Real nutrition comes from soybeans, almonds, rice, and other healthy vegetable sources, not from a cow's udder.
— Ingrid Newkirk
When I hear of anyone walking into a lab and walking out with animals, my heart sings.
— Ingrid Newkirk
I hope SeaWorld is exploring how, like Ringling, it can get out of the wild animal business.
— Ingrid Newkirk
We are complete press sluts.
— Ingrid Newkirk
Every time we consume meat, eggs or dairy foods, we contribute to ecological devastation and the wasteful misuse of resources on a global scale.
— Ingrid Newkirk
We do not advocate right to life for animals.
— Ingrid Newkirk
I wish we all would get up and go into the labs and take the animals out or burn them down.
— Ingrid Newkirk
Recognize meat for what it really is: the antibiotic- and pesticide-laden corpse of a tortured animal.
— Ingrid Newkirk
All tyranny, bigotry, aggression, and cruelty are wrong, and whenever we see it, we must never be silent.
— Ingrid Newkirk
Even if animal tests produced a cure for AIDS, we'd be against it,
— Ingrid Newkirk
In the end, I think it would be lovely if we stopped this whole notion of pets altogether,
— Ingrid Newkirk
Six million Jews died in concentration camps, but six billion broiler chickens will die this year in slaughter houses.
— Ingrid Newkirk
A rat is a pig is a dog is a boy.
— Ingrid Newkirk
Eventually companion animals would be phased out, and we would return to a more symbiotic relationship, enjoyment at a distance.
— Ingrid Newkirk
It's the 21st century. It's healthier for us, better for the environment and certainly kinder to be a vegetarian.
— Ingrid Newkirk
I don't have the luxury of having a dog myself because I travel too much, but I love walking and cuddling somebody else's dog.
— Ingrid Newkirk
Pet ownership is an absolutely abysmal situation brought about by human manipulation.
— Ingrid Newkirk
I know it's illegal [trespassing], but I don't think it's wrong.
— Ingrid Newkirk
The wonderful thing is that it's so incredibly easy to be kind.
— Ingrid Newkirk
When it comes to pain, love, joy, loneliness, and fear, a rat is a pig is a dog is a boy.
— Ingrid Newkirk
At PETA, we often say that the issue of how animals are treated isn't just about them; it's about us, how we behave.
— Ingrid Newkirk
Eating meat is primitive, barbaric, and arrogant.
— Ingrid Newkirk
Why go for a costly, sickly, mass-produced purebred when shelters are full of one-of-a-kind mixed breeds who are literally dying for a home?
— Ingrid Newkirk
Perhaps measuring animal intelligence by comparing it to human intelligence isn't the best litmus test.
— Ingrid Newkirk
Cows are gentle, interesting animals.
— Ingrid Newkirk
Everything we do is based at adults.
— Ingrid Newkirk
When it comes to having a central nervous system, and the ability to feel pain, hunger, and thirst, a rat is a pig is a dog is a boy.
— Ingrid Newkirk
It is dangerous to engage in even the most innocuous-seeming discourse with the FBI/ Homeland Security/ a local detective.
— Ingrid Newkirk
Pet ownership is slavery. Animals are not ours to eat, wear, experiment on, or be entertained by.
— Ingrid Newkirk
It's time to face facts: Most people stop being environmentalists when they sit down to eat.
— Ingrid Newkirk
Winners don't eat wieners.
— Ingrid Newkirk
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
Our nonviolent tactics are not as effective. We ask nicely for years and get nothing. Someone makes a threat, and it works.
— Ingrid Newkirk
Most Americans, like most Japanese, view their dogs, cats, and other animal companions as family members, and rightly so.
— Ingrid Newkirk
Pigeons are gentle and smart and have complex social relationships. Their hearing and vision are both excellent.
— Ingrid Newkirk
Euthanasia is the kindest gift to a dog or cat unwanted and unloved.
— Ingrid Newkirk
Would I rather the research lab that tests animals is reduced to a bunch of cinders? Yes.
— Ingrid Newkirk
It is only human supremacy, which is as unacceptable as racism and sexism, that makes us afraid of being more inclusive.
— Ingrid Newkirk
I think I would love to have dinner with Gandhi; Jesus Christ; Mother Theresa; Ingrid Newkirk, the president of PETA; and Madonna.
— Jane Velez-Mitchell
Elephants have the largest brains of any mammal on the face of the Earth. They are creative, altruistic and kind.
— Ingrid Newkirk
Even painless research is fascism, supremacism, because the act of confinement is traumatizing in itself.
— Ingrid Newkirk
More power to [Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty] if they can get someone's attention.
— Ingrid Newkirk
Humans have grown like a cancer. We're the biggest blight on the face of the earth.
— Ingrid Newkirk
We would like an end to pet shops and the breeding of animals.
— Ingrid Newkirk
To me, it is one world, and the non-human animals bear the brunt of oppression and suffering.
— Ingrid Newkirk
Medical research is "immoral even it it's essential."
— Ingrid Newkirk