Dr. Jerry Vlasak Quotes
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“I think we do need to embrace direct action and violent tactics as part of our movement … I don’t think we ought to be criticizing someone, whether we’re criticizing [them] because they’re writing letters, or whether we criticize them because they’re burning down fur stores or vivisection labs. I think we need to include everybody in that circle.” — Animal Rights 2002 convention, Jun 2002 “I don’t have any doubt in my mind that there will come a time when we will see violence against animal rights abusers.” — "Penn & Teller: Bullsh*t!" (Showtime cable network), Apr 2004 “I don’t think you’d have to kill -- assassinate -- too many ... I think for 5 lives, 10 lives, 15 human lives, we could save a million, 2 million, 10 million non-human lives.” — Jerry Vlasak at the "Animal Rights 2003" convention, advocating the murder of doctors whose life-saving biomedical experiments require the use of animals, “If someone is killing, on a regular basis, thousands of animals, and if that person can only be stopped in one way by the use of violence, then it is certainly a morally justifiable solution.” — "Penn & Teller: Bullsh*t!" (Showtime cable network), Apr 2004 “I think that violence and nonviolence are not moral principles, they’re tactics.” — Jerry Vlasak on "Penn & Teller: Bullsh*t!"" (Showtime cable network), Apr 2004 “[The police] are protecting the circus, they are protecting the meat and dairy industry, they are protecting the vivisection industry and I equate them in my own mind on a moral and ethical level with the -- no different than say guards in a Nazi concentration camp.” — at a panel called “Coping with Law Enforcement” at the Animal Rights 2003 LA convention, Aug 2003 “You can justify, from a political standpoint, any type of violence you want to use.” — Jerry Vlasak on "Penn & Teller: Bullsh*t!" (Showtime cable network), Apr 2004 “You can justify, from a political standpoint, any type of violence you want to use.” — Jerry Vlasak on "Penn & Teller: Bullsh*t!"" (Showtime cable network), Apr 2004 “I think that violence and nonviolence are not moral principles, they’re tactics.” — "Penn & Teller: Bullsh*t!" (Showtime cable network), Apr 2004 “I don’t think you’d have to kill -- assassinate -- too many [doctors involved with animal testing] ... I think for 5 lives, 10 lives, 15 human lives, we could save a million, 2 million, 10 million non-human lives.” — Animal Rights 2003 convention, Aug 2003 “You can justify, from a political standpoint, any type of violence you want to use.” — "Penn & Teller: Bullsh*t!" (Showtime cable network), Apr 2004 “I think that violence and nonviolence are not moral principles, they’re tactics.” — Jerry Vlasak on "Penn & Teller: Bullsh*t!" (Showtime cable network), Apr 2004 “If someone is killing, on a regular basis, thousands of animals, and if that person can only be stopped in one way by the use of violence, then it is certainly a morally justifiable solution.” — Jerry Vlasak on "Penn & Teller: Bullsh*t!" (Showtime cable network), Apr 2004 “I don’t have any doubt in my mind that there will come a time when we will see violence against animal rights abusers.” — Jerry Vlasak on "Penn & Teller: Bullsh*t!" (Showtime cable network), Apr 2004 “If someone is killing, on a regular basis, thousands of animals, and if that person can only be stopped in one way by the use of violence, then it is certainly a morally justifiable solution.” — Jerry Vlasak on "Penn & Teller: Bullsh*t!"" (Showtime cable network), Apr 2004 “I don’t have any doubt in my mind that there will come a time when we will see violence against animal rights abusers.” — Jerry Vlasak on "Penn & Teller: Bullsh*t!"" (Showtime cable network), Apr 2004 |