Animal Rights

🇬🇧Mary Midgley

Literature

1919–2018

"Arguments can always be answered. Moral philosophy, unlike straight moralizing, arises from and trives on plurality of values."

🇻🇳Thích Nhất Hạnh

Literature

Engaged Buddhism

1926–2022

"Chanting from the heart: Buddhist ceremonies and daily practices"

🇬🇧Richard D. Ryder

Psychology

b. 1940

"Our first moral concern should always be with the individual who is the maximum sufferer."

"Those who kill “humanely” often contend that their victims suffer minimally or not at all. This contention helps ease their guilt and makes the continuation of the killing more acceptable."

🇺🇸Tom Regan

Ethics

1938–2017

"The task facing ARAs is daunting: we must empty the cages, not make them larger."

🇺🇸Rita Mae Brown

Literature

lesbian feminism

b. 1944

"If the world were a logical place, men would ride side saddle."

🇺🇸Ernest Howard Crosby

Social Activism

1856–1907

"If judge and jury had to hang the prisoner themselves in cold blood, there would be fewer executions; if we each had to butcher our own meat, there would be a great increase in the number of vegetarians."

🇪🇸Oscar Horta

Philosophy

b. 1974

"Ethics Beyond the Species - Oscar Horta's personal blog"

Henry Spira

Social Activism

Socialism

1927–1998

"If you see something that's wrong, you've got to do something about it."

🇮🇳Maneka Gandhi

Politics

b. 1956

"When I was studying in Bangalore, temperature would be around 21 degree and now it is 31 degree. The drastic increase in the level of temperature is due to industrialisation."

🇺🇸Doris Day

Entertainment

1922–2019

"The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it."