Quotations
The central idea in my approach is the observation that humans are much more social than rational creatures.
- Martin Balluch
There is talk of the liberation of the cinema... The only interesting venture is the liberation of everyday life, not only in the perspectives of history but for us and right away. This entails the withering away of alienated forms of communication. The cinema [and Fakebook], too, has to be destroyed.
- Guy Debord
When the founders of the Humanist Union invited me to become a member, I replied that "I might possibly be willing to join if your club had been called an inhuman union, but I could not join one that calls itself 'humanist’”.
– Theodor Adorno
As often as Herman had witnessed the slaughter of animals and fish, he always had the same thought: in their behaviour... toward creatures, all men were Nazis. The smugness with which man could do with other species as he pleased exemplified the most extreme racist theories, the principle that might is right.
- Isaac Bashevis Singer
Yes, I think human overpopulation is itself a form of animal persecution and we need to find ways of massively reducing the occupation of the Earth by the human species, so that other creatures can have their fair share of the world’s habitat. The term I use is "human supremacism", which is the totally selfish, arrogant, immoral and illogical view that human beings are somehow more important than other animals. It’s on a par, in terms of wickedness, with notions of white supremacism and Aryan supremacism, as advocated by the Nazis. ...
True animal liberation will not come merely through the destruction of the Dachaus and Buchenwalds that the occupiers have built for their victims, but demands nothing less than the driving back of the human species to pre-invasion boundaries....
Sadly this may all be too much for many "animal protectionists" who still want their jobs their cars their umpteen kids, their domestic appliances. But half a liberation is no liberation. ...
- Ronnie Lee
Such is the breathtaking speciesism of our Christian-inspired attitudes, the abortion of a single human zygote (most of them are destined to be spontaneously aborted anyway) can arouse more moral solicitude and righteous indignation than the vivisection of any number of intelligent adult chimpanzees! [...] The only reason we can be comfortable with such a double standard is that the intermediates between humans and chimps are all dead.
- Richard Dawkins
I see no empirical evidence why the approach of persuading one person after the other to change their behaviour should ever work on a large scale. For no movement in history it has ever worked, all movements had to go through a phase of struggle and direct confrontation with the political enemy. The animal rights movement surely will be no exception. ... Those in power concede nothing without a struggle.
- Martin Balluch
My love is reserved for the victims. Fuck their tormentors!
- Negotiation is Over
