Latest Gary Yourofsky Quotes from Interviews

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• The problem is that humans have victimized animals to such a degree, that they aren't even considered victims. They aren't even considered at all. They're nothing. They don't count, they don't matter, they're commodities like TV sets and cellphones. We've actually turned animals into inanimate objects - sandwiches and shoes. It is the greatest magic trick ever performed.

  Gary Yourofsky

  Animal, Shoes, Magic

  Source: www.all-creatures.org

• Protecting the weak is the first step to enlightenment and being truly civilized.

  Gary Yourofsky

  Enlightenment, Firsts, Steps

  Source: www.all-creatures.org

• It's time to reconnect to the natural world for the sake of the animals, and our collective conscience. Because without spiritual health there can be no physical health.

  Gary Yourofsky

  Spiritual, Animal, World

  Source: www.all-creatures.org

• De-programming the perfunctory ways of meat, dairy, egg and honey-eaters is possible. Conservatively speaking, my lectures have converted hundreds of thousands of people worldwide, while hundreds of thousands more have significantly reduced their meat, cheese, milk, honey and egg intake. Abolition and reduction are the only proper ways to end a Holocaust.

  Gary Yourofsky

  Eggs, People, Holocaust

  Source: www.all-creatures.org

• Veganism can resurrect Eden and create heaven on Earth. We can have a place where humans view animals in awe, and animals view humans with a curious aloofness.

  Gary Yourofsky

  Animal, Views, Eden

  Source: www.all-creatures.org

• I am no longer taking part in the intentional, premeditated murder of innocent beings.

  Gary Yourofsky

  Murder, Innocent

  Source: www.all-creatures.org

• Sadly and criminally, many self-indulgent inactive pacifists have shunned me for being an outspoken supporter of X's 'by any means necessary' philosophy, even though NOT supporting me means you are supporting violence since millions of meat, dairy, egg and honey-eaters who would have had a chance to see my speeches, essays or advertisements continue along their violent paths unchallenged.

  Gary Yourofsky

  Philosophy, Mean, Self

  Source: www.all-creatures.org

• Placing a halo around your own head by saying 'I am a pacifist' and 'I don't believe in using violent tactics' doesn't make the world a better place. It might make YOUR world better and YOU might feel better about YOURSELF, but it does NOTHING whatsoever for the victims.

  Gary Yourofsky

  Believe, Feel Better, Might

  Source: www.all-creatures.org

• Veganism gives people an actual chance to DO SOMETHING instead of adding more cement (good intentions) to pave that road to Hell.

  Gary Yourofsky

  People, Giving, Chance

  Source: www.all-creatures.org

• Lobbying, protesting, letter-writing, American media, civil disobedience, and preaching pacifism ad nauseum, along with EDUCATION is the most effective way to enlighten the masses. Welfare concessions/campaigns, are counterproductive and simply ineffective in this day and age.

  Gary Yourofsky

  Writing, Media, Age

  Source: www.all-creatures.org

• Since most people only pay lip service to the injustices of the world, because one cannot affect the outcome of an atrocity like the Darfur genocide, veganism is your only chance to stand up for what's right several times a day, every day, for the rest of your life!

  Gary Yourofsky

  People, Rest Of Your Life, Lips

  Source: www.all-creatures.org

• Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity would sit down and eat a steak with Keith Olbermann and Barack Obama before they would dine on tofu and asparagus with me!

  Gary Yourofsky

  Asparagus, Tofu, Keith

  Source: www.all-creatures.org

• Vegans are the ONLY unique people on this planet who think outside of the box. They are the ONLY ones who reject society's norms, and live differently than the aforesaid groups and people.

  Gary Yourofsky

  Unique, Thinking, People

  Source: www.all-creatures.org

• If there's one thing I've learned in the last 18+ years of interacting with over 60,000 people during my vegan lecture tour, it's that everyone is the same, whether they are Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Buddhist, Hindu, atheist, Republican, Democrat, independent, socialist, fascist, black, white, Asian, Latino, Native, pro-life, pro-choice, pro-gun or anti-gun.

  Gary Yourofsky

  Christian, Buddhist, Atheist

  Source: www.all-creatures.org

• As for uniqueness, this is virtually nonexistent! And it's a shame that people think they're unique because they have a face ring, retro clothing, colorful hair, drive a certain kind of automobile or listen to some obscure musician.

  Gary Yourofsky

  Thinking, Unique, Hair

  Source: www.all-creatures.org

• The vicious cycle of violence is real. But if people simply stopped listening to their ignorant parents, their biased religions, their corrupt government and the prejudicial media, change would be quite easy. All it takes is courageous, fearless, unique individuals to make substantive change in this world. Unfortunately, there are very few courageous and fearless people.

  Gary Yourofsky

  Real, Unique, Government

  Source: www.all-creatures.org

• I simply wish my parents would have taught me about speciesism and how it was just as evil as racism, sexism and heterosexism. Sadly, my parents were lied to by their parents who were lied to by their parents and so on.

  Gary Yourofsky

  Racism, Evil, Parent

  Source: www.all-creatures.org

• The propaganda machine keeps on churning out lies and deceit. And the obedient, unthinking, apathetic people in our society keep accepting it.

  Gary Yourofsky

  Lying, People, Deceit

  Source: www.all-creatures.org

• If cows, pigs, chickens and turkeys go into slaughterhouses alive and come out chopped up into hundreds of pieces, how could anyone claim that animals aren't being mistreated, abused, tortured, terrorized and savagely murdered in these places? How in the world could SLAUGHTERING BILLIONS of INNOCENTS be done with love, humanity and concern?

  Gary Yourofsky

  Animal, Turkeys, Pigs

• Concerning B12, 39% of Americans have a B12 deficiency yet only 1% of Americans are vegan. How can this be a vegan issue? And if nearly everyone in America is sick or has died from a disease, yet only 1% is vegan, how can sickness be a vegan problem?

  Gary Yourofsky

  America, Issues, Sick

  Source: www.all-creatures.org

• Have you ever known an alcoholic, a cigarette smoker, or a heroin user to be rational when it came to alcohol, cigarettes, or heroin? Of course not. And there is NO such thing as a rational - or ethical - meat, dairy, egg and honey-eater when it comes to animal issues and whether humans should be enslaving, murdering and eating animals, or using them as test subjects, clothing and entertainment.

  Gary Yourofsky

  Animal, Eggs, Issues

  Source: www.all-creatures.org

• Addicts are ALWAYS irrational when it comes to their habits.

  Gary Yourofsky

  Habit, Irrational, Addict

  Source: www.all-creatures.org

• When women and blacks were let in, the system didn't miss a beat. When gays are given their equality, the system will be as stable/unstable as it was before. And when animals are liberated one day, the world will be a beautiful place and the system will still function.

  Gary Yourofsky

  Beautiful, Gay, Animal

  Source: www.all-creatures.org

• Men in America were terrified that if women got an equal say in society, the system would collapse and their lives would be valued less. Whites in America were scared that if blacks obtained their freedom and equality, the system would collapse and their lives would be devalued. Heterosexuals are terrified that the psychotic institution of marriage will collapse if gays are given their right to marry. And humans are terrified that if animals are liberated and no longer viewed as inferior subordinates, human life will be valued less.

  Gary Yourofsky

  Gay, Men, Animal

  Source: www.all-creatures.org

• Religion, media and schools tell us to disregard animals, view them as commodities, property and resources, and convince us that animals cannot think clearly, nor act morally or altruistically, nor experience love and hatred, or kindness and terror, in the same way that we can.

  Gary Yourofsky

  Kindness, School, Thinking