Especially when it comes to animals used for food, humanity’s reasoning power and concern about fairness plummets.
And sometimes I actually start to think human life is just as cheap to corporate America as animal life, so long as there are big profits to be made.
For origin and development of human faculty we must look to these processes of association in lower animals.
There's a long tradition in Western thought that humans are not shackled by biology, whereas animals are pure instinct machines.
It is written in the Jewish law book, the Talmud, that only the Jew is human, that Gentiles are only animals.
Most of what you see now emphasizes animals being dangerous to humans.
The human young must learn to perceive these affordances, in some degree at least, but the young of some animals do not have time to learn the ones that are crucial for survival.
From an egotistical point of view, I'm always interested in roles that push me as a person. I'm interested in humans as animals and as products of society.
My own field, the prevention of genetic disorders in babies, has been possible only because of humane work on animals.
I once believed man was different from other animals, but Yodok showed me that reality doesn't support this opinion. In the camp, there was no difference between man and beast, except maybe that a very hungry human was capable of stealing food from i...
Humans are amphibians...half spirit and half animal...as spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time. This means that while their spirit can be directed to an eternal object, their bodies, passions, and imaginations are...
Humans are animals and like all animals we leave tracks as we walk: signs of passage made in snow, sand, mud, grass, dew, earth or moss.... We easily forget that we are track-markers, through, because most of our journeys now occur on asphalt and con...
Bad is that often wildlife trafficking is described as a “victimless” crime. Nothing could be further from the truth. Many of the trafficked items come from murdered animals; Rhinoceros Horn, Ivory and Tiger skins; and hundreds of thousands of bi...
Man has been reared by his errors: first he never saw himself other than imperfectly, second he attributed to himself imaginary qualities, third he felt himself in a false order of rank with animal and nature, fourth he continually invented new table...
It opens the mind toward an understanding of human nature and destiny. It increases wisdom. It is the very essence of that much misinterpreted concept, a liberal education. It is the foremost approach to humanism, the lore of the specifically human c...
Experiments with animals have long been handicapped by our anthropocentric attitude: We often test them in ways that work fine with humans but not so well with other species.
At some point, human intelligence became collective and cumulative in a way that happened to no other animal.
The veneer of civilization fell away to reveal desperate animals, humanity at their worst.
Animals that we eat are raised for food in the most economical way possible, and the serious food producers do it in the most humane way possible. I think anyone who is a carnivore needs to understand that meat does not originally come in these neat ...
The process of making natural history films is to try to prevent the animal knowing you are there, so you get glimpses of a non-human world, and that is a transporting thing.
Biology will relate every human gene to the genes of other animals and bacteria, to this great chain of being.
