Gary L. Francione Quotes

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.

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'm definitely an animal lover, and I stand up for all animals' rights.

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.

Animal welfare issues have always been important to me.

To a certain extent, I think I've become an animal-rights person.

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

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.

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.

Animals weren't put on this earth to entertain us.

While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered animals, how can we expect any ideal living conditions on this earth?

I believe in preventing cruelty to all living beings in any form.

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.

The way animals were and are abused appalls me to this very day.

Are we beasts? Are we taking this too far?

All of my causes, including the most radical, are motivated by the defense of animals.

Animals shouldn't be mistreated.

I appreciate people trying to stand up for 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.

The thing about animals that speaks to me so much is that my passion for the animals and against animal abuse is based on the knowledge that these creatures which think and feel can't speak for themselves. I feel it is my responsibility to speak for those who can't speak for themselves.

Terms like that, 'Humane Society,' are devised with people like me in mind, who don't care to dwell on what happens to the innocent.

Protecting animals is very important to me, and I think speaking out against fur is an amazing cause.