James Cromwell Quotes & Sayings

“Pets are humanizing. They remind us we have an obligation and responsibility to preserve and nurture and care for all life.”

“What is magnificent about humans is when they decide to turn and stand. If they respond with non-violence on principle and hold their ground, they are really magnificent.”

“I'm an animal rights activist because I believe we won't have a planet if we continue to behave toward other species the way we do.”

“The attitude we have towards our personal pets as opposed to the animals that suffer under the factory farm is hypocritical and delusional.”

“The health of the planet is at stake, because the cruelty and the waste that accompanies the slaughter of billions of animals each year literally infects us all. We could consume healthy plant-based food produced at almost infinitely less cost. What does that say, really, about us and what we're doing... to animals and to ourselves?”

“Until men learn to celebrate and operate on the feminine aspect of themselves and stop the oppression of women, children, the environment, other species, we don't have a world to live in. It's not a world that anyone chooses to live in.”

“There is something intrinsically, systemically wrong with white, western culture, and if we don't fix it, it won't continue.”

“During the run up to the Iraq War, Mike Farrell and I did get on television kind of frequently, but then they saw that that didn't work. They really couldn't bait us into being stupid, so they stopped. You know the mainstream media, corporate media, avoids ever giving anyone who has anything to say a platform, if they can possibly help it.”

“I think the relationship of indigenous people to their environment... that those were ethical omnivores.”

“I have a film called 'A Lonely Place For Dying,' which is the most watched film on the Internet, over 3 million hits, more than any of Hollywood's films.”