Marc Bekoff Quotes

• All animals, including humans, have a right to lives of dignity and respect, without forced intrusions.

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  Animal, Dignity, Intrusion

  Marc Bekoff (2010). “The Animal Manifesto: Six Reasons for Expanding Our Compassion Footprint”, p.23, New World Library

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• Los animales no son propiedades ni "cosas", sino organismos vivos, sujetos de una vida, que merecen nuestra compasión, respeto, amistad y apoyo.

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  Animal, Compassion, Support

  Marc Bekoff (2007). “Animals Matter: A Biologist Explains Why We Should Treat Animals with Compassion and Respect”, p.72, Shambhala Publications

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• Dominion does not mean domination. We hold dominion over animals only because of our powerful and ubiquitous intellect. Not because we are morally superior. Not because we have a "right" to exploit those who cannot defend themselves. Let us use our brain to move toward compassion and away from cruelty, to feel empathy rather than cold indifference, to feel animals' pain in our hearts.

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  Pain, Powerful, Moving

  Marc Bekoff (2013). “Why Dogs Hump and Bees Get Depressed: The Fascinating Science of Animal Intelligence, Emotions, Friendship, and Conservation”, p.310, New World Library

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• Although other animals may be different from us, this does not make them LESS than us

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  Animal, Doe, Different

  Marc Bekoff (2007). “Animals Matter: A Biologist Explains why We Should Treat Animals with Compassion and Respect”, p.24, Shambhala Publications

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• A menudo, cuanto mayor es nuestra ignorancia sobre algo, mayor es nuestra resistencia al cambio.

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  Ignorance, Resistance, Resistance To Change

  Marc Bekoff (2007). “Animals Matter: A Biologist Explains why We Should Treat Animals with Compassion and Respect”, p.167, Shambhala Publications

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• Let us remember that animals are not mere resources for human consumption. They are splendid beings in their own right, who have evolved alongside us as co-inheritors of all the beauty and abundance of life on this planet

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  Animal, Remember, Abundance

  Marc Bekoff (2007). “Animals Matter: A Biologist Explains Why We Should Treat Animals with Compassion and Respect”, p.19, Shambhala Publications

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• Make ethical choices in what we buy, do, and watch. In a consumer-driven society our individual choices, used collectively for the good of animals and nature, can change the world faster than laws.

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  Animal, Law, Individual Choice

  Marc Bekoff (2007). “Animals Matter: A Biologist Explains Why We Should Treat Animals with Compassion and Respect”, p.171, Shambhala Publications

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• When animals express their feelings they pour out like water from a spout. Animals' emotions are raw, unfiltered, and uncontrolled. Their joy is the purest and most contagious of joys and their grief the deepest and most devastating. Their passions bring us to our knees in delight and sorrow.

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  Motivational, Grief, Passion

  Marc Bekoff (2010). “The Emotional Lives of Animals: A Leading Scientist Explores Animal Joy, Sorrow, and Empathy — and Why They Matter”, p.19, New World Library

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• Compassion begets compassion, cruelty begets cruelty. What we give we will ultimately receive. Nonhumans help make us human. They teach us respect, compassion, and unconditional love. When we mistreat animals, we mistreat ourselves. When we destroy animal spirits and souls, we destroy our own spirits and souls.

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  Unconditional Love, Animal, Compassion

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• Humans are a part of nature, not apart from nature.

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  Vegetarian, Vegan, Humans

  Marc Bekoff (2002). “Minding Animals: Awareness, Emotions, and Heart”, p.188, Oxford University Press

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• La caza y la pesca implican matar animales con dispositivos (como armas de fuego) para los que los animales no han desarrollado defensas naturales. Ningún animal de la Tierra tiene defensas adecuadas contra un ser humano armado con una pistola, un arco y una flecha, una trampa que puede mutilar, un lazo que puede estrangular o un señuelo de pesca diseñado con el único propósito de engañar a los peces haciéndoles creer que han encontrado algo que comer...".

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  Animal, Gun, Thinking

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• Without close and reciprocal relationships with other animal beings, we're alienated from the rich, diverse, and magnificent world in which we live.

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  Animal, World, Relationships With Others

  Marc Bekoff (2010). “The Emotional Lives of Animals: A Leading Scientist Explores Animal Joy, Sorrow, and Empathy — and Why They Matter”, p.24, New World Library

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• Human beings are a part of the animal kingdom, not apart from it. The separation of "us" and "them" creates a false picture and is responsible for much suffering. It is part of the in-group/out-group mentality that leads to human oppression of the weak by the strong as in ethic, religious, political, and social conflicts.

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  Religious, Strong, Animal

  Marc Bekoff (2013). “Why Dogs Hump and Bees Get Depressed: The Fascinating Science of Animal Intelligence, Emotions, Friendship, and Conservation”, p.310, New World Library

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• A falta de un lenguaje compartido, las emociones son quizá nuestro medio más eficaz de comunicación entre especies. Podemos compartir nuestras emociones, podemos entender el lenguaje de los sentimientos, y por eso formamos vínculos sociales profundos y duraderos con muchos otros seres. Las emociones son el pegamento que une.

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  Communication, Mean, Feelings

  Marc Bekoff (2010). “The Emotional Lives of Animals: A Leading Scientist Explores Animal Joy, Sorrow, and Empathy — and Why They Matter”, p.15, New World Library

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• Many animals experience pain, anxiety and suffering, physically and psychologically, when they are held in captivity or subjected to starvation, social isolation, physical restraint, or painful situations from which they cannot escape. Even if it is not the same experience of pain, anxiety, or suffering undergone by humans- or even other animals, including members of the same species- an individual's pain, suffering, and anxiety matter.

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  Pain, Animal, Anxiety

  Marc Bekoff (2007). “Animals Matter: A Biologist Explains Why We Should Treat Animals with Compassion and Respect”, p.67, Shambhala Publications

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• A reduction of meat consumption by only 10% would result in about 12 million more tons of grain for human consumption. This additional grain could feed all of the humans across the world who starve to death each year- about 60 million people!

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  Meat Consumption, Years, People

  Marc Bekoff (2007). “Animals Matter: A Biologist Explains Why We Should Treat Animals with Compassion and Respect”, p.119, Shambhala Publications

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• It's bad biology to rob nonhuman animals of their emotional lives.

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  Animal, Emotional, Biology

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• Animals are not resources or property with whom we can do what we please, their lives matter very much, and they should be firmly entrenched in our moral community. Accepting the notion of ‘animal guardian’ to replace ‘pet owner’ will go a long way towards making the lives of our companions much better and richer.

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  Animal, Long, Community

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• We must remain hopeful that a universal ethic of courage, caring, sharing, respect, radical compassion, and love will make a difference even if we do not see the positive results of our efforts... We can never be too generous or too kind.

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  Caring, Compassion, Differences

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• The plural of anecdote is not data.

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  Wisdom, Science, Data

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• Some people say they love animals and yet harm them nonetheless; I'm glad those people don't love me.

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  Animal, People, Harm

  Marc Bekoff (2010). “The Animal Manifesto: Six Reasons for Expanding Our Compassion Footprint”, p.172, New World Library

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• These enthusiasts often like to hang signs that say "Gone Fishin'" or "Gone Huntin'". But what these slogans really mean is "Gone Killing.

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  Mean, Lakes, Sea

  Marc Bekoff (2007). “Animals Matter: A Biologist Explains Why We Should Treat Animals with Compassion and Respect”, p.120, Shambhala Publications

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• I would like to believe that it is, and will continue to be, human compassion for other beings that will result in our giving them the protection they deserve, because of who they are, not because of what they can do for us or because some law tells us what we have to do.

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  Believe, Compassion, Law

  "Who Lives and Who Dies: We All Care About Animals, Right?" by Marc Bekoff, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 21, 2010.

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