ANTI-HUMAN QUOTES 
 
"Man is the most dangerous, destructive, selfish, and unethical
animal on earth." --Michael W. Fox, vice president, Humane
Society of the United States, as quoted in Robert James
Bidinotto, "Animal Rights: A New Species of Egalitarianism," The
Intellectual Activist, September 14, 1983, p. 3.

"Humans have grown like a cancer. We're the biggest blight on 
the face of the earth."  --Ingrid Newkirk, national director, 
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PeTA), as quoted 
in Reader's Digest, June, 1990.
 
"Humans are exploiters and destroyers, self-appointed world
autocrats around whom the universe seems to revolve."  --Sydney
Singer, director, the Good Shepherd Foundation, "The Neediest of
All Animals," The Animals Agenda, Vol. 10, No. 5 (June 1990),
p. 50.
 
"If you haven't given voluntary human extinction much thought
before, the idea of a world with no people in it may seem
strange.  But, if you give it a chance, I think you might agree
that the extinction of Homo sapiens would mean survival for
millions, if not billions, of Earth-dwelling species ... Phasing
out the human race will solve every problem on earth, social and
environmental."  --"Les U. Knight" (pseudonum), "Voluntary Human
Extinction," Wild Earth, Vol. 1, No. 2, (Summer 1991), p. 72.
 
Torturing a human being is almost always wrong, but it is not
absolutely wrong."  --Peter Singer, as quoted in Josephine
Donovan, "Animal Rights and Feminist Theory," Signs: Journal of
Women in Culture and Society, Winter 1990, p. 357.

"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 are all mammals."
--Ingrid Newkirk, national director, People for the Ethical
Treatment of Animals (PeTA), as quoted in Vogue, September 1989.

"I find that as I get older I seem to become more of a Luddite...
And hearing animal experimenters describe me as a Luddite--which
used to think I was not.  And now I think Ned Lud had the right
idea and we should have stopped all the machinery way back when,
and learned to live simple lives."  --Ingrid Newkirk, national
director, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PeTA),
speech at Loyola University, October 24, 1988.
 
"I am not a morose person, but I would rather not be here. I
don't have any reverence for life, only for the entities
themselves. I would rather see a blank space where I am. This
will sound like fruitcake stuff again but at least I wouldn't be
harming anything." --Ingrid Newkirk, national director, People
for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PeTA), as quoted in Chip
Brown, "She's a Portrait of Zealotry in Plastic Shoes,"
Washington Post, November 13, 1983, p. B10.
 
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