Occupation: Philosopher Birth: November 28, 1938 Death: February 17, 2017
The culture isn't set up to embrace what we think and feel. Any doubt about that, just watch the ads on TV. They tell you where the dominant culture'….
If it were a retarded baby and a bright dog, I'd save the dog..
Once you become a vegan, the food of the world opens up to you..
Live your life in ways that do not support wars, whosoever are the victims..
When I say a vegan diet can be "the healthiest dietary option we can live by," I mean an informed vegan diet..
Never give other people another reason to ignore other animals. That's what we do when we come across as being so much better than the next guy or ga….
There is no question in my mind: reading Gandhi's autobiography changed my life..
The world is not going to change overnight, nor in my lifetime, nor in my grandchildren's lifetime. But it will change, if we change, not for a day o….
It is not an act of kindness to treat animals respectfully. It is an act of justice..
In a perfect world, we would not keep animals for our benefit, including pets..
I would encourage them never to forget that they were not always vegans. The self-righteousness of the recently converted hurts, it does not help, ot….
Even granting that we [humans] face greater harm than laboratory animals presently endure if ... research on these animals is stopped, the animal rig….
If you were aboard a lifeboat with a baby and a dog, and the boat capsized, would you rescue the baby or the dog?" Regan, "If it were a retarded baby….
If abandoning animal research means that there are some things we cannot learn, then so be it ... We have no basic right ... not to be harmed by thos….
Being kind to animals is not enough. Avoiding cruelty is not enough. Housing animals in more comfortable, larger cages is not enough. Whether we expl….
All great movements, it is written, go through three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption. It is the realisation of this third stage, adoption, tha….
What could be the basis of our having more inherent value than animals? Their lack of reason, or autonomy, or intellect? Only if we are willing to ma….
To be 'for animals' is not to be 'against humanity.' To require others to treat animals justly, as their rights require, is not to ask for anything m….
Veganism affirms what is best for us, what is best for the animals, and what is best for the environment. Everywhere you look, you find veganism entw….
It is not larger, cleaner cages that justice demands...but empty cages; not traditional animal agriculture but a complete end to all commerce in the ….
Make vegan friends! It's a tough row to hoe doing it alone..