Tom Regan

The world is not going to change overnight, nor in my lifetime, nor in my grandchildren's lifetime. But it will change, if…

— Tom Regan

I would encourage them never to forget that they were not always vegans. The self-righteousness of the recently converted hurts, it does…

— Tom Regan

“Because we have viewed other animals through the myopic lens of our self-importance, we have misperceived who and what they are. Because…

— Tom Regan

Veganism affirms what is best for us, what is best for the animals, and what is best for the environment. Everywhere you…

— Tom Regan

It is not an act of kindness to treat animals respectfully. It is an act of justice.

— Tom Regan

Being kind to animals is not enough. Avoiding cruelty is not enough. Housing animals in more comfortable, larger cages is not enough.…

— Tom Regan

Live your life in ways that do not support wars, whosoever are the victims.

— Tom Regan

If it were a retarded baby and a bright dog, I'd save the dog.

— Tom Regan

In a perfect world, we would not keep animals for our benefit, including pets,

— Tom Regan

If abandoning animal research means that there are some things we cannot learn, then so be it ... We have no basic…

— Tom Regan

Never give other people another reason to ignore other animals. That's what we do when we come across as being so much…

— Tom Regan

Once you become a vegan, the food of the world opens up to you.

— Tom Regan

The culture isn't set up to embrace what we think and feel. Any doubt about that, just watch the ads on TV.…

— Tom Regan

The other animals humans eat, use in science, hunt, trap, and exploit in a variety of ways, have a life of their…

— Tom Regan

It is not larger, cleaner cages that justice demands...but empty cages; not traditional animal agriculture but a complete end to all commerce…

— Tom Regan

When I say a vegan diet can be "the healthiest dietary option we can live by," I mean an informed vegan diet.

— Tom Regan

Even granting that we [humans] face greater harm than laboratory animals presently endure if ... research on these animals is stopped, the…

— Tom Regan

If you were aboard a lifeboat with a baby and a dog, and the boat capsized, would you rescue the baby or…

— Tom Regan

All great movements, it is written, go through three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption. It is the realisation of this third stage, adoption,…

— Tom Regan

What could be the basis of our having more inherent value than animals? Their lack of reason, or autonomy, or intellect? Only…

— Tom Regan

To be 'for animals' is not to be 'against humanity.' To require others to treat animals justly, as their rights require, is…

— Tom Regan

Make vegan friends! It's a tough row to hoe doing it alone.

— Tom Regan

There is no question in my mind: reading Gandhi's autobiography changed my life.

— Tom Regan