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""Animal liberationists do not separate out the human animal, so there is no rational basis for saying that a human being has special rights. A rat is a pig is a dog is a boy. They're all mammals." (as quoted in Vogue, September, 1989)

"Six million Jews died in concentration camps, but six billion broiler chickens will die this year in slaughterhouses." (Washington Post, 1983)

"Humans have grown like a cancer. We're the biggest blight on the face of the planet." (Readers Digest, June, 1990)

"I am not a morose person but I would rather not be here. I don't have any reverence for life, only for the entities themselves. I would rather see a blank space where I am. This will sound like fruitcake stuff again, but at least I wouldn't be harming anything." (Washington Post, November 13, 1983)

"Probably everything we do is a publicity stunt ... we are not here to gather members, to please, to placate, to make friends. We're here to hold the radical line." (USA Today, September 3, 1991)

"Even if animal research resulted in a cure for AIDS, we'd be against it." (Vogue, September, 1989)

"Even painless research is fascism, supremacism, because the act of confinement is traumatizing in itself." (Washingtonian Magazine, August, 1986)

"It (animal research) is immoral even if it is essential." (Washington Post, May 30, 1989)

"Pet ownership is an absolutely abysmal situation brought on by human manipulation." (Washingtonian Magazine, August, 1986)

"One day we would like an end to pet shops and the breeding of animals. [Dogs] would pursue their natural lives in the wild ... They would have full lives, not waiting at home for someone to come home in the evening and pet them and then sit there and watch TV" ("Where Would We Be Without Animals?" Chicago Daily Herald, March 1, 1990)

"...Eventually companion animals would be phased out, and we would return to a more symbiotic relationship, enjoyed at a distance." (Harper's, August, 1988)