When animals express their feelings they pour out like water from a spout. Animals' emotions are raw, unfiltered, and uncontrolled. Their joy is the …

- Marc Bekoff

Dominion does not mean domination. We hold dominion over animals only because of our powerful and ubiquitous intellect. Not because we are morally su…

- Marc Bekoff

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

- Marc Bekoff

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…

- Marc Bekoff

Compassion begets compassion, cruelty begets cruelty. What we give we will ultimately receive. Nonhumans help make us human. They teach us respect, c…

- Marc Bekoff

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 an…

- Marc Bekoff

Hunting and fishing involve killing animals with devices (such as guns) for which the animals have not evolved natural defenses. No animal on earth h…

- Marc Bekoff

Animals are not property or "things" but rather living organisms, subjects of a life, who are worthy of our compassion, respect, friendship, and supp…

- Marc Bekoff

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

- Marc Bekoff