Gary L. Francione Quotes

If we are concerned about the exploitation of human workers in countries with low standards of worker protection, we should also be concerned about the treatment of even more defenceless non-human animals.

We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form.

I would be more angry if an animal were treated cruelly than people, because people can defend themselves.

Animals, or at least those who are conscious and capable of suffering or enjoying their lives, are not things for us to use in whatever way we find convenient.

We do not think clearly about our moral obligations to animals.

I'm very touched on a deep level by cruelty to animals.

We eat animals because they taste good. And if that's O.K., what's wrong with wearing fur? We need as a society to think seriously about our institutionalized animal use.

Any abuse of animals is the same as abuse of men, women, or children.

However, I do firmly believe in maintaining the integrity of the animal.

There is increasing social concern about our use of nonhumans for experiments, food, clothing and entertainment. This concern about animals reflects both our own moral development as a civilization and our recognition that the differences between humans and animals are, for the most part, differences of degree and not of kind.

I just don't think animals should be slaughtered for their fur.

I have always been against cruelty to animals and remain so.

Bulls can do nothing to demand justice. They can only defend themselves as best they can in a fight with a pre-determined ending and die never knowing why they were forced to endure such a painful and prolonged death. It's up to us, as a civilized society, to call for an end to the Running of the Bulls and bullfighting.

For at the same time many people seem eager to extend the circle of our moral consideration to animals, in our factory farms and laboratories we are inflicting more suffering on more animals than at any time in history.

We do not need to eat animals, wear animals, or use animals for entertainment purposes, and our only defense of these uses is our pleasure, amusement, and convenience.

I urge you to ask yourself just how honorable it is to preside over the abuse and suffering of animals.

We have abolished the death penalty for humans, so why should it continue for animals?

Man is the only animal that can be skinned more than once.

The most important of all rights is the right to life, and I cannot foresee a day when domesticated animals will be granted that right in law.

Those who actually hate animals to the point of being cruel to them are outcasts to the rest of us, no matter where in the world they live.

Prevent the torture and murder of our animal brothers and sisters

I have resigned from the human race. Look at the way we treat animals.

I want PETA to do something to stop the killing of animals.

I published a thesis about animal rights when I was studying in England in 1991. Back then, I was a human rights lawyer and people condemned me for talking about animal rights when human rights are still not guaranteed. However, human rights are guaranteed in a society where animal rights are secured.

Humans - who enslave, castrate, experiment on, and fillet other animals - have had an understandable penchant for pretending animals do not feel pain.