Abolition Quote by Tom Regan

“If we understand “rights” to be legal protection against harm, then many animals already do have rights, and the idea of animal rights is…

— Cass R. Sunstein

Animal experimentation is the blackest of all the black crimes that a man is at present committing... We should be able to refuse to…

— Mahatma Gandhi

“Animal abuse should be taken seriously not just because of our concern for humans. Lax enforcement of animal-cruelty laws leads to untold suffering by…

— Clif Flynn

There are viable (and usually better) alternatives to the use of animals for food, sport, clothing, & experimentation. I beg you to discontinue any…

— Moby

. . . As a so-called "civilized" people, and as members of a society in search of lasting peace in the world, we cannot…

— Nathaniel Altman

The elimination of horrible disease, the increase of the quality of lives (for humans and for animals) achieved through research using animals is so…

— Carl Cohen

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

— Tom Regan

“I dislike this whole business of experimentation on animals, unless there's some very good and altogether exceptional reason to this very case. The thing…

— Richard Adams

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

— Tom Regan

“Animals are property. There are laws that supposedly protect animal interests in being treated “humanely,” but that term is interpreted in large part to…

— Gary L. Francione

Even should it be conclusively proved that human beings benefit directly from the suffering of animals, its infliction would nevertheless be unethical and wrong.

— Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding

Animal rights activists talk about cruelty and torture, some backing their assertions by publishing out-of-date photographs of 'experiments' banned long ago. This is a…

— Robert Winston