"The proposition that humans have mental characteristics wholly……" — Gary L. Francione
"The proposition that humans have mental characteristics wholly absent in non-humans is inconsistent with the theory of evolution."
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72 Quotes by Gary L. Francione
Gary L. Francione has 72 quotes on this site.
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We should never present flesh as somehow morally distinguishable from dairy. To the extent it is morally wrong to eat…
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We do not need to eat animals, wear animals, or use animals for entertainment purposes, and our only defence of…
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None of that is necessary. It's not as if we're in a situation where it is us or them.There's something…
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Being vegan is not a matter of "lifestyle." It is a matter of fundamental moral obligation. Is being vegan a…
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Humans treat animals as things that exist as means to human ends. Â That's morally wrong. Sexism promotes the idea…
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Being vegan is not just a matter of being 'kind' to animals. First and foremost, it is a matter of being just…
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If you care about animals, there is one and only one choice: go vegan. Â Can you choose not to…
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Veganism is not a limitation in any way; it's an expansion of your love, your commitment to nonviolence, and your…
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Every sentient being values her/his life even if no one else does. Â That is what is meant by saying…
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Being vegan provides us with the peace of knowing that we are no longer participants in the hideous violence that…
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Veganism is about nonviolence. It is about not engaging in harm to other sentient beings; to oneself; and to the…
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There is no morally coherent difference between fur and other animal clothing, such as leather, wool, etc., just as there…
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Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in…
— Hannah Arendt
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The divine life is the spirit in everything that exists, from the atom to the archangel; the grain of dust…
— Annie Besant
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Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.
— Ambrose Bierce
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The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent…
— Elizabeth Bowen
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Men can absent themselves from real life for their art more easily. Women are anchored into the quotidian business of…
— Geraldine Brooks
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The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse.
— Benjamin Franklin
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Augustine does not disagree with this when he teaches that it is a faculty of the reason and the will…
— John Calvin
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Let's face it.., our current [immigration control] system is like a busy intersection without a traffic cop: sure there are…
— Ronald Reagan
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All that remains to the mother in modern consumer society is the role of scapegoat; psychoanalysis uses huge amounts of…
— Germaine Greer
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When health is absent, wisdom cannot reveal itself, art cannot become manifest, strength cannot be exerted, wealth is useless, and…
— Herophilos
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When the Spirit is absent, our excuses always seem right, but in the presence of the Spirit our excuses fade…
— R. T. Kendall
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Though the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with…
— Lucretius
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