"It is not an act of kindness to……" — Tom Regan

It is not an act of kindness to treat animals respectfully. It… - Tom Regan

"It is not an act of kindness to treat animals respectfully. It is an act of justice."

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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…
In a perfect world, we would not keep animals for our benefit, including pets,
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…
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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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think. — Hannah Arendt
It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has… — Hannah Arendt
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
Quality is not an act, it is a habit. — Aristotle
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence,… — Aristotle
Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last. — Aristotle
Storytelling is fine as long as you can encourage people to act on the stories. — Karen Armstrong
Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is. — Malcolm Arnold
Criticize the act, not the person. — Mary Kay Ash
We like to engage in a normal publishing effort, which is to act in a responsible manner and make sure… — Julian Assange
Gardening is not a rational act. — Margaret Atwood
All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of… — Wystan Hugh Auden

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