Tom Regan > Quotes

“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 more nor less in their case than in the case of any human to whom just treatment is due. The animal rights movement is a part of, not opposed to, the human rights movement. Attempts to dismiss it as anti human are mere rhetoric.”
― Tom Regan, The Case for Animal Rights

“Because we have viewed other animals through the myopic lens of our self-importance, we have misperceived who and what they are. Because we have repeated our ignorance, one to the other, we have mistaken it for knowledge.”
― Tom Regan

“How would we fare psychologically if the walls of slaughterhouses were made of glass?”
― Tom Regan, The Struggle for Animal Rights

“What happens to them matters to them.”
― Tom Regan, The Case for Animal Rights

“Estar "por los animales" no es estar "contra la humanidad". Exigirr que otros traten a los animales con justicia (...) no es pedir nada más o nada menos que lo que se pide en el caso de cualquier humano a quien se le debe un trato justo.”
― Tom Regan, The Case for Animal Rights