Jerry Vlasak Quotes

#1. I can always pray to God with confidence because my righteous state is a gift given through grace in faith on the cross by Jesus!

Alisa Hope Wagner

#2. If killing [animal research scientists] is the only way to stop them, then I said killing them would certainly be justified.

Jerry Vlasak

#3. If you had to hurt somebody or intimidate them or kill them, it would be morally justifiable.

Jerry Vlasak

#4. If (a particular researcher) won't stop when you ask nicely, when you picket in front of his house, or when you burn his car, maybe he'll stop when you hit him over the head with a two-by-four.

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#5. Lastly, anyone who believes in the possibility of total animal liberation while billions of humans continue to inhabit and decimate the planet is delusional. Only when most humans have died off will there be a chance to returning to a society that values all beings for who they are.

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#6. There are two main goals behind ALF actions. The first is obviously to remove as many animals as possible from fur farms, vivisection labs, and other areas of abuse. The second is to cause as much economic damage to these industries and persons as possible.

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#7. The big difference between animal liberation activists and other so-called 'terrorists' is the targets; no innocent victims are ever targeted in animal lib campaigns. If you are not abusing and exploiting animals, there is no need to fear for one's safety.

Jerry Vlasak

#8. Get arrested. Destroy the property of those who torture animals. Liberate those animals interned in the hellholes our society tolerates.

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#9. I have tried to preserve in my relationship to the film the same closeness and intimacy that exists between a painter and his canvas.

Norman McLaren

#10. Things are picking up ... It's not going to make this thing go away ... don't think you're going to find anybody deterred ... There's a lot of people willing to die for the cause.

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#11. I do not stay to be nice. I stay because it is my duty - " "But, Mama can't find out, Muddy," Addy cautioned, interrupting him. "She'd have a heart attack." " - and because Adara has promised me hot monkey sex," Brand finished.

Lexi George

#12. I think violence is part of the struggle against oppression. If something bad happens to these people [animal researchers], it will discourage others. It is inevitable that violence will be used in the struggle and that it will be effective.

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#13. I don't have any doubt in my mind that there will come a time when we will see violence against animal rights abusers.

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#14. I don't want to make films that give you the answer. If there is a message to my films - and I hope there isn't - it's to be open-minded.

Jason Reitman

#15. She felt the phrase "demand her rights" had lain inside her forever, waiting.

Clarice Lispector

#16. I am personally not advocating violence. I am simply saying that it is a morally acceptable tactic and it may be useful in the struggle for animal liberation. I don't know.

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#17. Fear is an effective factor in altering behavior ...

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#18. Whatever it takes to stop someone from abusing animals is certainly morally acceptable

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#19. The University of California has been selected as the poster child of animal abuse at laboratories. It's been shown that the tactics are more effective if you just hit one person over and over and get them to quit what they're doing.

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#20. And I don't think you'd have to kill
assassinate
too many vivisectors before you would see a marked decrease in the amount of vivisection going on. And I think for 5 lives, 10 lives, 15 human lives, we could save a million, 2 million, 10 million non-human animals.

Jerry Vlasak

#21. I have throughout been curious about how much we can be said to know and with what degree of certainty or doubtfulness.

Bertrand Russell

#22. If animal abusers aren't going to stop perpetrating these types of atrocities, they ought to be stopped using whatever means necessary. What we're starting to see is the implementation of that type of strategy.

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#23. The inconvenience and the suffering of any children or any family members pales in comparison to the suffering and oppression that goes on in these animal laboratories.

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#24. As far as the underground liberation movement, it won't have any impact at all because they don't really care about those laws. Their activities - sabotaging, liberating animals - are already illegal so just adding one more law won't make much difference.

Jerry Vlasak

#25. Nothing is more violent and radical than what's being done to non-human animals in our society. If a researcher won't stop abusing animals and is stopped physically, whether with the use of force, or is killed, I certainly wouldn't lose sleep over that idea.

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#26. I think that violence and nonviolence are not moral principles, they're tactics.

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#27. If someone is killing, on a regular basis, thousands of animals, and if that person can only be stopped in one way by the use of violence, then it is certainly a morally justifiable solution.

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#28. The torture of being the unseen object, and the constantly observed subject.

Amiri Baraka

#29. I think for five lives, 10 lives, 15 human lives, we could save a million, two million, 10 million non-human lives.

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#30. Forgetfulness of self is remembrance of God.

Bayazid Bastami

#31. You can justify, from a political standpoint, any type of violence you want to use.

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#32. If they won't stop when you ask them nicely, they don't stop when you demonstrate to them what they're doing is wrong, then they should be stopped using whatever means are necessary.

Jerry Vlasak