"In a perfect world, we would not keep……" — Tom Regan

"In a perfect world, we would not keep animals for our benefit, including pets,"

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13 Quotes by Tom Regan

Tom Regan has 13 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

To be 'for animals' is not to be 'against humanity.' To require others to treat animals justly, as their rights…
If abandoning animal research means that there are some things we cannot learn, then so be it ... We have…
If it were a retarded baby and a bright dog, I'd save the dog.
Being kind to animals is not enough. Avoiding cruelty is not enough. Housing animals in more comfortable, larger cages is…
The other animals humans eat, use in science, hunt, trap, and exploit in a variety of ways, have a life…
It is not larger, cleaner cages that justice demands...but empty cages; not traditional animal agriculture but a complete end to…
It is not an act of kindness to treat animals respectfully. It is an act of justice.
I would encourage them never to forget that they were not always vegans. The self-righteousness of the recently converted hurts,…
What could be the basis of our having more inherent value than animals? Their lack of reason, or autonomy, or…
If you were aboard a lifeboat with a baby and a dog, and the boat capsized, would you rescue the…
Even granting that we [humans] face greater harm than laboratory animals presently endure if ... research on these animals is…
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 Animal Quotes

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At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
Man is by nature a political animal. — Aristotle
To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult. — Isaac Asimov
If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will… — Francis of Assisi
People are not going to care about animal conservation unless they think that animals are worthwhile. — David Attenborough
There are some four million different kinds of animals and plants in the world. Four million different solutions to the… — David Attenborough
Birds are the most popular group in the animal kingdom. We feed them and tame them and think we know… — David Attenborough
The only way to save a rhinoceros is to save the environment in which it lives, because there's a mutual… — David Attenborough
I'm not a propagandist, I'm not a polemicist; my primary interest is just looking at and trying to understand how… — David Attenborough
I'm not an animal lover if that means you think things are nice if you can pat them, but I… — David Attenborough
If you watch animals objectively for any length of time, you're driven to the conclusion that their main aim in… — David Attenborough
Steve Irwin did wonderful conservation work but I was uncomfortable about some of his stunts. Even if animals aren't aware… — David Attenborough

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