Sentientism Quotes

“For better or worse, humans or our descendants will be responsible for life on Earth for the indefinite future. Despite the initially daunting technical challenges, the biggest obstacle to compassionate stewardship of the world's free-living nonhuman animal population is not technical or even financial but ideological.”
― David Pearce

“No group of humans has ever been held in as low regard or exploited on anything close to the same level as non-human beings have been throughout history and still are today. No group of humans has ever been systematically bred, raised, killed, and eaten. No group of humans has ever been born and raised in order for people to make basketballs, wallets, or boots out of their skin. No, there is no comparison. No group of humans has ever truly been “treated like animals”.”
― Magnus Vinding, Speciesism: Why It Is Wrong and the Implications of Rejecting It

“The butcher's knife hath laid low the delight of a fond dam, and the darling of nature is now stretched in gore upon the ground.”
― John Oswald, The Cry of Nature; Or, an Appeal to Mercy and to Justice, on Behalf of the Persecuted Animals