Gilles Dauvé: Quotes about animals

Gilles Dauvé is French writer. Explore interesting quotes on animals.

Gilles Dauvé: 14 quotes0 likes

“Animals that kill usually have far more social relationships than those they prey upon.”

"Letter on Animal Liberation" (1999)

“Managers try to make the workplace safer and less destructive (= more productive) of a precious capital: labour. Animal exploitation duplicates this process. It tends to experiment less on animals in order to get more from them, painfully if it must, painlessly if it can”

"Letter on Animal Liberation" (1999)

“Nature awareness, ecological worries and reactions to animal abuse are not signs of mankind at last getting conscious of its impact on the rest of the planet, but of the necessity for capital to think globally, and to take all past and present into account, from Maya temples to whales and genes. Everything it dominates has to be controlled and classified in order to be managed. What is marketable must be protected. Capital owns the world and no owner can afford to be too careless about his possessions.”

"Letter on Animal Liberation" (1999)

“It's no coincidence that an acute sensibility to the condition of animals comes up at the same time as industrialised food and concentration camp style farming.”

"Letter on Animal Liberation" (1999)