"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 make the same judgment in the case of humans who are similarly deficient."

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Source : Carl Cohen, Tom Regan (2001). “The Animal Rights Debate”, p.216, Rowman & Littlefield

Tom Regan

#Animal Quotes #Judgment Quotes #Reason Quotes

“The stubborn stance of some European governments on the refugee question is a reprisal less aimed at Angela Merkel or (Vice Chancellor) Sigmar Gabriel than at certain people on Wilhelmstrasse in Berlin.”
“Everyone in Hollywood is seeking fame and fortune; it's in the water here. Everyone from young women to old men - they all want it.”
“Using a dog as a narrator has limitations and it has advantages. The limitations are that a dog cannot speak. A dog has no thumbs. A dog can't communicate his thoughts except with gestures.”
“If we are lending money that ostensibly we don't have to kids who have no hope of making it back in order to train them for jobs that clearly don't exist, I might suggest that we've gone around the bend a little bit,”
“He raped me ... he fondled me, he put me on all fours, and had sex with me,”
“Ye living soldiers of the mighty war, Once more from roaring cannon and the drums And bugles blown at morn, the summons comes; Forget the halting limb, each wound and scar: Once more your Captain calls to you; Come to his last review!”

Source : Richard Watson Gilder (1900). “Five Books of Song”
“Of our hurts we make monuments of survival. If we survive.”
“There is a time in every life when paths are chosen, character is forged. I could have chosen a different path. But I didnâ€™t. I failed myself.”

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