Gary L. Francione Quotes
Because animals are property, we consider as 'humane treatment' that we would regard as torture if it were inflicted on humans.
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Chess is mental torture.
Garry Kasparov -
Stage and film are just two wildly different animals. Why compare the two?
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I like using animals because they help suspend my reader's disbelief. We have certain ideas about dentists. We don't have many ideas about rhinoceros dentists.
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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.
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I have always loved animals since I was very young.
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I'm definitely an animal lover, and I stand up for all animals' rights.
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I don't believe that we should limit waterboarding - or, quite frankly, any other alternative torture technique - if it means saving Americans' lives.
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One of the things that's frustrated me as a deep-sea explorer is how many animals there probably are in the ocean that we know nothing about because of the way we explore the ocean.
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Having my animals or my children with me exorcises that feeling of not being wanted.
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Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing.
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I love shooting guns. Not at people or animals, but I love shooting blanks!
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Animals aren't any better equipped to survive an emergency than humans are. Few people missed the fact that after Hurricane Katrina, people died because buses and emergency shelters wouldn't allow their animals.
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The Qur'an is God's property, not mine.
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When I need to cry, I think of very sad things, mostly about animals.
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If all consciousness is subject to essential laws in a manner similar to that in which spatial reality is subject to mathematical laws, then these essential laws will be of most fertile significance in investigating facts of the conscious life of human and brute animals.
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I have no neighbours other than animals and Joshua Trees.
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Making lasting gifts for animals in our estate plans is perhaps the single most important thing we can do to ensure animals have the strongest possible voice for their protection.
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Marriage finally became acceptable to the churches when laws were established that could make it a means of depriving women of incomes and property, and making wives the equivalent of slaves.
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Things are changing. But nothing changes. And still, there will be changes soon.
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My heart is tuned to sorrow, and the strings Vibrate most readily to minor chords, Searching and sad; my mind is stuffed with words Which voice the passion and the ache of things: Illusions beating with their baffled wings Against the walls of circumstance.
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“I just make music. — The music I make, I make for myself,” he continued, “I’m the number one guy for me to please.” He is not one to force a track into a specific genre and would never create a record with the intentions of critical reception. “Sometimes 10 million people love what I do, sometimes 500 do… I have massive hits with some tracks, and some other tracks have stayed in the underground.”
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Because animals are property, we consider as 'humane treatment' that we would regard as torture if it were inflicted on humans.
