"If abandoning animal research means that there are……" — Tom Regan
"If abandoning animal research means that there are some things we cannot learn, then so be it ... We have no basic right ... not to be harmed by those natural diseases we are heir to."
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13 Quotes by Tom Regan
Tom Regan has 13 quotes on this site.
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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 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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Even granting that we [humans] face greater harm than laboratory animals presently endure if ... research on these animals is…
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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 Abandoning Quotes
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one of 102 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Only the idea of death makes a warrior sufficiently detached so that he is capable of abandoning himself to anything.…
— Carlos Castaneda
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Kepler's discovery would not have been possible without the doctrine of conics. Now contemporaries of Kepler-such penetrating minds as Descartes…
— Charles Sanders Peirce
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True transformation occurs only when we can look at ourselves squarely and face our attachments and inner demons, free from…
— Julia Hill
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The fancies that take their monstrous birth from the spinelessness and boredom of usurped wealth bring in their wake every…
— Jean Lorrain
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However, the small probability of a similar encounter [of the earth with a comet], can become very great in adding…
— Pierre-Simon Laplace
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It means abandoning being a poet, abandoning your careerism, abandoning even the idea of writing any poetry, really abandoning, giving…
— Allen Ginsberg
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Perhaps the real point of life is simply to wear us down until we have no choice but to start…
— Katrina Kenison
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Anything worth putting off is worth abandoning altogether.
— Epictetus
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Do you believe that Jesus is worth abandoning everything for? Do you believe him enough to obey him and to…
— David Platt
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When one, abandoning greed, feels no greed for what would merit greed, greed gets shed from him - like a…
— Gautama Buddha
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A victor only breeds hatred, while a defeated man lives in misery, but a man at peace within lives happily,…
— Gautama Buddha
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The wise say that it is not an iron, wooden or fiber fetter which is a strong one, but the…
— Gautama Buddha
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