"Even granting that we [humans] face greater harm……" — Tom Regan
"Even granting that we [humans] face greater harm than laboratory animals presently endure if ... research on these animals is stopped, the animal rights view will not be satisfied with anything less than total abolition."
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13 Quotes by Tom Regan
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To be 'for animals' is not to be 'against humanity.' To require others to treat animals justly, as their rights…
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In a perfect world, we would not keep animals for our benefit, including pets,
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If abandoning animal research means that there are some things we cannot learn, then so be it ... We have…
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If it were a retarded baby and a bright dog, I'd save the dog.
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Being kind to animals is not enough. Avoiding cruelty is not enough. Housing animals in more comfortable, larger cages is…
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The other animals humans eat, use in science, hunt, trap, and exploit in a variety of ways, have a life…
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It is not larger, cleaner cages that justice demands...but empty cages; not traditional animal agriculture but a complete end to…
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It is not an act of kindness to treat animals respectfully. It is an act of justice.
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I would encourage them never to forget that they were not always vegans. The self-righteousness of the recently converted hurts,…
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What could be the basis of our having more inherent value than animals? Their lack of reason, or autonomy, or…
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If you were aboard a lifeboat with a baby and a dog, and the boat capsized, would you rescue the…
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All great movements, it is written, go through three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption. It is the realisation of this third…
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More Abolition Quotes
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I am for socialism, disarmament, and, ultimately, for abolishing the state itself... I seek the social ownership of property, the…
— Roger Nash Baldwin
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Abolition of a woman's right to abortion, when and if she wants it, amounts to compulsory maternity: a form of…
— Edward Abbey
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Elimination of illiteracy is as serious an issue to our history as the abolition of slavery.
— Maya Angelou
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Of course, some will say the goal [of abolition] is a utopian dream of human perfection. We needn't worry. There…
— Jonathan Schell
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For centuries the Bible's emphasis on compassion and love for our neighbor has inspired institutional and governmental expressions of benevolent…
— Ronald Reagan
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My views and feelings (are) in favor of the abolition of war-and I hope it is practicable, by improving the…
— Thomas Jefferson
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In this sense, the theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.…
— Karl Marx
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I wish from my soul that the legislature of this State could see the policy of a gradual Abolition of…
— George Washington
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The abolition of domestic slavery is the great object of desire in those colonies, where it was unhappily introduced in…
— Thomas Jefferson
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All good men wish the entire abolition of slavery, as soon as it can take place with safety to the…
— Oliver Ellsworth
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There is no justification for the common claim that Christianity was responsible for the abolition of slavery. The Negro slave…
— Margaret E. Knight
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For every social wrong there must be a remedy. But the remedy can be nothing less than the abolition of…
— Henry George
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