Yourofsky's 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. 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

#5. The blood of a goat will shatter a diamond.

Aristotle.

#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. To create an enlightened society, be a beacon of light

Debasish Mridha

#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. Sam Keen points out that Zen masters spend years to reach an enlightenment that every natural child already knows - the total incarnation of sleeping when you're tired and eating when you're hungry. What irony that this state of Zen-like bliss is programmatically and systematically destroyed.

John Bradshaw

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

Gary Yourofsky

#12. 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

#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. What did school matter compared to a sister?

Benjamin Alire Saenz

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

Gary Yourofsky

#16. 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

#17. 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

#18. A woman as the leader of the Free World is an impossibility. Muslim countries won't talk to you.

Geena Davis

#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

#21. In former days, everyone found the assumption of innocence so easy; today we find fatally easy the assumption of guilt.

Carolyn Heilbrun