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Sentient Quotes by Gary L. Francione
- Being vegan is not just a matter of being 'kind' to animals. First and foremost, it is a matter of being just and observing our moral obligation…
- Every sentient being values her/his life even if no one else does. Â That is what is meant by saying that the lives of all…
- Veganism is about nonviolence. It is about not engaging in harm to other sentient beings; to oneself; and to the environment upon which all beings…
- The idea that we have the right to inflict suffering and death on other sentient beings for the trivial reasons of palate pleasure and fashion…
- We are vegans not simply because being vegan will reduce suffering. We are vegan because every sentient being values her or his life even if…
- There is no moral distinction between fur and other materials made from animals, such as leather, which also is the result of the suffering and…
- Just as we reject racism, sexism, ageism, and heterosexism, we reject speciesism. The species of a sentient being is no more reason to deny the…
- We cannot justify treating any sentient nonhuman as our property, as a resource, as a thing that we an use and kill for our purposes.
- All sentient beings should have at least one right—the right not to be treated as property
- Veganism is an act of nonviolent defiance. It is our statement that we reject the notion that animals are things and that we regard sentient…
- If you are not vegan, please consider going vegan. It’s a matter of nonviolence. Being vegan is your statement that you reject violence to other…
- To say that a being who is sentient has no interest in continuing to live is like saying that a being with eyes has no…
- We can no more justify using nonhumans as human resources than we can justify human slavery. Animal use and slavery have at least one important…
More Sentient Quotes
- Music is intended and designed for sentient beings that have hopes and purposes and emotions. — Jacques Barzun
- I love all animals. I have a fascination with fish, birds, whales - sentient life - insects, reptiles. — Nicolas Cage
- We are all given a gift of existence and of being sentient beings, and I think true happiness lies in love and… — Adam Pascal
- We need to finally accept that all sentient creatures are deserving of basic rights. I define basic rights as this -the ability… — Moby
- Fools! You think of "god" as a sentient being. God is the word used to represent a force. This force created nothing,… — Diogenes
- It is time to fill the world with strong and powerful deeds. It is common knowledge that no great captain in the… — Dalai Lama
- ...we and all sentient beings fundamentally have the buddha nature as our innermost essence. . . . — Sogyal Rinpoche
- At this stage you must admit that whatever is seen to be sentient is nevertheless composed of atoms that are insentient. The… — Lucretius
- If all sentient beings in the universe disappeared, there would remain a sense in which mathematical objects and theorems would continue to… — Martin Gardner
- Believing as I do that man in the distant future will be a far more perfect creature than he now is, it… — Charles Darwin
- Lack of understanding of the true nature of happiness, it seems to me, is the principal reason why people inflict sufferings on… — Dalai Lama
- Now, if anything at all can be known to be wrong, it seems to me to be unshakably certain that it would… — Antony Flew