"If you were aboard a lifeboat with a……" — Tom Regan
"If you were aboard a lifeboat with a baby and a dog, and the boat capsized, would you rescue the baby or the dog?" Regan, "If it were a retarded baby and a bright dog, I'd save the dog."
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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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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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We are all passengers aboard one ship, the Earth, and we must not allow it to be wrecked. There will…
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Since you are now studying geometry and trigonometry, I will give you a problem. A ship sails the ocean. It…
— Gustave Flaubert
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Our friend and we were invited aboard on a party of pleasure, which is to last forever. His chair was…
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While you live your life aboard the ship of life be aware of the sea of life on which it…
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. . . So I vowed to keep myself alive, but only if I would never use me again for…
— R. Buckminster Fuller
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I have served many long and lonely years aboard ship in war zones, and the only thing that kept me…
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Before the current decade ends, fee-paying passengers will be experiencing suborbital flights aboard privately funded vehicles. . . . It…
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All we had aboard the ship that morning was one Annapolis graduate and three reserves.
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Oh, it doesn't work at all. That's the problem! It's an endless, halting parade of inspections, bribes, and nonsense-but if…
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