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. 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

#4. The only constitutional exception to the power of making treaties is, that it shall not change the Constitution. ... On natural principles, a treaty, which should manifestly betray or sacrifice primary interests of the state, would be null.

Alexander Hamilton

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. 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

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

Gary Yourofsky

#10. 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

#11. Catholic school gave me the tools to reject the very religion they wanted me to have. They taught me how to think for myself and to be independent.

George Carlin

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

Gary Yourofsky

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

Gary Yourofsky

#14. 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

#15. 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

#16. The case for industry breakups comes from Thomas Jefferson's idea that occasional revolutions are important to the health of any system. As he wrote in 1787, a little rebellion every now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical one.

Tim Wu

#17. Laws and machines are shaped to fit the classes.

Rod McKuen

#18. Arts and disciplines of that kind are fundamentally selfish; they're all designed to benefit the pupil - not the world - "Ishmael

Daniel Quinn

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

Gary Yourofsky

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

Gary Yourofsky