Gary L. Francione Quotes

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.

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.

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

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

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

Four legs good, two legs bad.

As long as man eats animals how can cruelty to animals be removed.

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.

Bolivia recently did what every country should do - banned the use of animals in circuses.

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

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

No matter whether it's someone from the political left or right, we just need a voice to stand up and defend animal rights.

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.

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

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

Abuse yourself all you want - just leave animals out of it. Don't wear fur.

The attitude we have towards our personal pets as opposed to the animals that suffer under the factory farm is hypocritical and delusional.

The harming of animals for any reason is shameful, but torturing them for mere vanity is senseless. Slaughtering animals for their fur or harming them for cosmetic purposes is disgusting and not worth the perfect shade of lipstick.

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.

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

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

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.

Prevent the torture and murder of our animal brothers and sisters

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

Fur is not luxury: it is an industry of death and suffering.