Gary L. Francione Quotes

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.

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

I have never really been fond of animals. I certainly wasn't an 'animal lover' when I became involved in the movement. I just came to be persuaded that animals should be treated as independent sentient beings, not as means to human ends.

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.

Just about every children's book in my local bookstore has an animal for its hero. But then, only a few feet away in the cookbook section, just about every cookbook includes recipes for cooking animals. Is there a more illuminating illustration of our paradoxical relationship with the nonhuman world?

We do not advocate 'right to life' for animals.

Four legs good, two legs bad.

Nothing can be more obvious than that all animals were created solely and exclusively for the use of man.

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.

To me, it is one world, and the non-human animals bear the brunt of oppression and suffering.

Although we have, in theory, abolished human slavery, recognized women's rights, and stopped child labor, we continue to enslave other species who, if we simply pay attention, show quite clearly that they experience parental love, pain, and the desire for freedom, just as we do.

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

I'm an animal rights activist because I believe we won't have a planet if we continue to behave toward other species the way we do.

Because animals are property, we consider as 'humane treatment' that we would regard as torture if it were inflicted on humans.

Killing a stag is like killing a child. What's the difference?

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 support the rights of non-humans wholeheartedly with my voice, my money, my presence, my writing and any other way I can.

Not only are the philosophies of animal rights and animal welfare separated by irreconcilable differences... the enactment of animal welfare measures actually impedes the achievement of animal rights... Welfare reforms, by their very nature, can only serve to retard the pace at which animal rights goals are achieved.

Humans — who enslave, castrate, experiment on, and fillet other animals — have had an understandable penchant for pretending animals do not feel pain. A sharp distinction between humans and 'animals' is essential if we are to bend them to our will, make them work for us, wear them, eat them — without any disquieting tinges of guilt or regret. It is unseemly of us, who often behave so unfeelingly toward other animals, to contend that only humans can suffer. The behavior of other animals renders such pretensions specious. They are just too much like us.

In relation to them (animals), all people are Nazis for the animals, it is an eternal Treblinka.

I'm in favor of animal liberation. Why? Because I'm an animal.

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

I don't myself believe that, even when we fulfil our minimum obligation not to cause pain, we have the right to kill animals.

I want medical experiments on animals stopped. They don't do anything, and they don't work.