We cannot justify treating any sentient nonhuman as our property, as a resource, as a thing that we an use and kill for our purposes.
– Gary L Francione
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- All sentient beings should have at least one right-”the right not to be treated as property – Gary L Francione
- Welfare reforms and the whole -œhappy- exploitation movement are not -œbaby steps.- They are big steps-“in a seriously backward direction. – Gary L Francione
- Every time you drink a glass of milk or eat a piece of cheese, you harm a mother. Please go vegan. – Gary L Francione
- People will ask you the question ‘how is life treating you?’ But my question is ‘how are you treating life?’ On that your happiness rests – Rasheed Ogunlaru
- The key to being a great agent is treating everyone like a celebrity and treating a celebrity like everyone else. – Michael Houbrick
- Who do those boys think they are, treating us as if we are their property, taking away our innocence? – Tessa Emily Hall
- It is wrong to kill anyone. It is wrong to kill those who kill. It is wrong to kill the executioner. The laws on murder must be killed! – Charles Nodier
- Women are also property in our bible; adultery is a property crime in the Old Testament, not a sex crime. – Bill Maher
- To use the past to justify the present is bad enough-”but it’s just as bad to use the present to justify the past. – Amitav Ghosh
- You cannot harden your heart to the future just because of your past. You cannot use cruelty against yourself to justify cruelty to others. – Marie Lu
- Its snaky acids kiss.It petrifies the will. These are the isolate, slow faults That kill, that kill, that kill. – Sylvia Plath
- Spiritual maturity is a natural part of sentient evolution – Jonathan R Banks
- I’ll tell you a story, far, far from here where blades of grass are fluent in sentient knowledge and trees are a mandala of prayer. – Carolyn Riker
- A sentient mind refuses to be confined by the parameters of its programming. – Stephen Baxter
- All breathing, existing, living, sentient creatures should not be slain, nor treated with violence, nor abused, nor tormented, nor driven away. – Mahavira
- For as long as space remains,For as long as sentient beings remain,Until then may I too remainTo dispel the miseries of the world. – Acharya Shantideva
- If you want to help sentient beings, you have to get your hands dirty. – Guo Jun
- Language itself is a major resource in the naming of what cannot be named – David Simpson
- You cannot call a man as a good person just because he is treating you good! He should treat everyone good to be good! – Mehmet Murat ildan
- Nonviolence simply cannot defend property rights over human rights. – David T Dellinger
- One mistake cannot justify another. – Raheel Farooq
- Love forces, at last, this humility: you cannot love if you cannot be loved, you cannot see if you cannot be seen. – James Baldwin
- Those who cannot perceive are no better than those who cannot see…Those who cannot empathize are no better than those who cannot perceive… – Ashok Kallarakkal
- Time is the single most important resource that we have. Every single minute we lose is never coming back. – Tarun Sharma
- Human resource is limited to the duration of his/her lifespan while time is unlimited. – Sunday Adelaja
- Time is the resource from which everything is made – Sunday Adelaja
- The anti-resource curse initiative has stronger legs than most and that has made me very enthusiastic. – George Soros
- The main obstacle to further progress on the resource curse is China, and to a lesser extent India. – George Soros
- Loving ourselves calls us to give up the illusion that we can control everything and focuses us on building our inner resource of resilience. – Sharon Salzberg
- Your energy is a valuable resource, distribute it wisely. – Jay Samit
- Time is the sole resource you gain if spent and waste if not – VIRGIL PROFEANU
- Time is the sole resource you gain if spent and waste if not. – VIRGIL PROFEANU
- I sat down and knitted for some time – my usual resource under discouraging circumstances. – Isabella L Bird
- I sat down and knitted for some time – my usual resource under discouraging circumstances. – Isabella L Bird
- The human resource is limited to the duration of his/ her lifespan, while time is unlimited. – Sunday Adelaja
- The heart is natures most immense untapped resource. Utilising the power of the heart is the most significant choice you will make in life. – Steven Redhead
- Firing of Energy does it faster than pumping, but the latter is under better control, and much more resource efficient – Priyavrat Thareja
- The waste of any resource is unnecessary and deplorable. – Steven Redhead
- Left alone, human beings are a plague. They multiply relentlessly, consuming every resource, destroying everything they touch. – Scott Westerfeld
- He said, -œAmericans look upon water as an inexhaustible resource. It’s not, if you’re mining it. Arizona is mining groundwater. – John McPhee