Top 7 Tom Regan Quotes (2025 Update)

Tom Regan Quote: “It is not an act of kindness to treat animals respectfully. It is an act of justice.”

1. “It is not an act of kindness to treat animals respectfully. It is an act of justice.”

2. “Being kind to animals is not enough. Avoiding cruelty is not enough. Housing animals in more comfortable, larger cages is not enough. Whether we exploit animals to eat, to wear, to entertain us, or to learn, the truth of animal rights requires empty cages, not larger cages.”

— Tom Regan

3. “If it were a retarded baby and a bright dog, I’d save the dog.”

— Tom Regan

4. “I would encourage them never to forget that they were not always vegans. The self-righteousness of the recently converted hurts, it does not help, other animals.”

— Tom Regan

5. “All great movements, it is written, go through three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption. It is the realisation of this third stage, adoption, that requires our passion and our discipline, our hearts and our heads. The fate of animals is in our hands.”

— Tom Regan

6. “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.”

— Tom Regan

7. “How would we fare psychologically if the walls of slaughterhouses were made of glass?”

— Tom Regan

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