Gary Yourofsky Quotes

#1. Going vegan was a little tougher for me. The final push came from watching Gary Yourofsky's lecture at Georgia Tech in person. The video is now on YouTube. I constantly show it to people interested in learning about why I choose to live the way I do.

Andy Lally

#2. Stop filtering your nutrients through somebody else's body.

Gary Yourofsky

#3. The accent of a man's native country remains in his mind and his heart, as it does in his speech.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

#4. If people want to be real meat eaters, I'd love to see people eat raw flesh from the bone, down to the bone with nothing left but the bones, day after day after day.

Gary Yourofsky

#5. Our perceptions shape whether challenges are obstacles that block our path to success or important arrows that steer us in the direction we want to go.

Julie Connor

#6. Thou shalt not kill: the four most important, and yet, most ignored words in all religious teachings. There is not an asterisk next to that commandment saying, Unless you walk on all four and have fur, feathers, horns, beaks or gills.

Gary Yourofsky

#7. My goal is simple. All I want to do is re-connect people with animals. Awaken some emotions and some feelings and some logic, that is been buried and suppressed, intentionally, by our society.

Gary Yourofsky

#8. I despise 'animal welfare.' That's like saying, 'Let's beat the slaves three times a week instead of five times a week'.

Gary Yourofsky

#9. Given the choice of apathy or someone liberating mink, burning down a research torture-laboratory, or killing a vivisectionist or other DIRECT murderer of animals, I will choose the aforesaid actions over apathy any day of the week.-

Gary Yourofsky

#10. You know what's more insane than [slaughterhouses]? Meat eaters. Walking around, acting like their lifestyle isn't causing any harm.

Gary Yourofsky

#11. If you are not the victim, don't examine it entirely from your point of view because when YOU'RE not the victim, it becomes pretty easy to rationalize and excuse cruelty, injustice, inequality, slavery, and even murder. But when you're the victim, things look a lot differently from that angle.

Gary Yourofsky

#12. The upper class desire to remain so, the middle class wish to overthrow the upper class, and the lower class want a classless system.

George Orwell

#13. How would you feel, if the day that you were born, somebody else had already planned the day of your execution?

Gary Yourofsky

#14. If it's not good enough for your eyes, why is it good enough for your stomach?

Gary Yourofsky

#15. It's not about loving animals. It's about fighting injustice. My whole goal is for humans to have as little contact as possible with animals.

Gary Yourofsky

#16. Is slavery - owner, victim, profit, and domination - exclusive to the human race? Have blacks, Jews, women and children been the only victims of this atrocity? Have not cows been enslaved? What about pigs, chickens, turkeys, fish, sheep? If they're not enslaved, then what are they? Free?

Gary Yourofsky

#17. Rumors of glory are often hidden inside what many consider myths and tales.

William Paul Young

#18. What we must do is start viewing every cow, pig, chicken, monkey, rabbit, mouse, and pigeon as our family members.

Gary Yourofsky

#19. From first to last, the peak is never passed. Something always fires the light that gets in your eyes.

Neil Peart

#20. If an 'animal abuser' were killed in a research lab firebombing, I would unequivocally support that, too.

Gary Yourofsky

#21. I'm not just a candidate, I'm the President

Barack Obama