Quotes
Authors
Tom Regan

"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."

Source : Tom Regan (2004). “The Case for Animal Rights”, p.53, Univ of California Press

Tom Regan

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“Evil to him who evil thinks.”

Source : "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations". Compiled by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt and Kate Louise Roberts, 1922.
“I'm from Holland and the history of "Admiral" is something you would read about when you're at school. Nobody knows about these stories and when you go to any museum in Holland, you will see these paintings of these 17th century sea beckels that the Dutch were in to, so it always intrigued me.”
“When I was younger, I used to be a high jumper before I switched to hurdles.”
“I had a mother who taught me there is no such thing as failure. It is just a temporary postponement of success.”
“It is a common temptation of Satan to make us give up the reading of the Word and prayer when our enjoyment is gone; as if it were of no use to read the Scriptures when we do not enjoy them, and as if it were no use to pray when we have no spirit of prayer.”
“Even in the worst tragedies and crisis, thereâ€™s no reason to add to everyoneâ€™s misery by looking miserable yourself.”
“Is it possible to be alive, active in the world, and yet have such calm, such kind of inner openness and presence that one can lead a life, at least in part, that is an expression of that quality of meditative quiescence that's on the one hand quite alert and on the other hand, completely at ease, completely at rest.”

Source : "Holding Life Consciously". Interview with Krista Tippett, onbeing.org. June 24, 2010.
“Know that success and inner peace are your birthright, that you are a child of God and as such that you're entitled to a life filled with joy, love and happiness.”

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