Quotes of: Human-animal Keyword

I can't remember when I wasn't an animal rights activist.

Ali MacGraw

But why must the system go to such lengths to block our empathy? Why all the psychological acrobatics? The answer is simple: because we care about animals, and we don't want them to suffer. And because we eat them. Our values and behaviors are incong...

Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows: An Introduction to Carnism: The Belief System That Enables Us to Eat Some Animals and Not Others

Do not eat before you have fed your animal.

Hebrew

It is a fact that if an impulse from one or the other sphere comes up and is not lived out, then it goes back down and tends to develop anti-human qualities. What should have been a human impulse becomes a tiger-like impulse. For instance, a man has ...

The Psychological Meaning of Redemption Motifs in Fairytales

Humans are amazing ritual animals, and it must be understood that the Tzutujil, nor any other real intact people, do not 'practice' rituals. Just as a bear must turn over stumps searching for beetles, real humans can only live life spiritually. Birth...

The Unlikely Peace at Cuchumaquic: The Parallel Lives of People as Plants: Keeping the Seeds Alive

Reforms will come as all great reforms have always come in ridding us of evils against both man and animal--not as we change our moral principles but as we discern and accept the implications of principles already held.

Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy

If he had known unstructured space is a deluge and stocked his log house- boat with all the animals even the wolves, he might have floated. But obstinate he stated, The land is solid and stamped, watching his foot sink down through the stone up to hi...

The Animals in that Country

Most people would say they love animals, but the reality is, if your using animals for food, clothing, or entertainment, you're only considering the lives of certain animals, typically those of cats and dogs.

The Vegan Girl's Guide to Life: Cruelty-Free Crafts, Recipes, Beauty Secrets and More

I wasn't always a vegetarian. I didn't care about animals one way or the other; they were part of the scenery, until one day on tour, I saw a baby panda. I thought that it was the most fabulous animal in the world and made a different kind of connect...

Grace Slick

Animal Mother: I'm going first. Private Eightball: Now, back off, white bread! Don't get between a dog and his meat. Animal Mother: All fucking niggers must fucking hang! [responds to protests] Animal Mother: Hey, hey, I won't be long! I'll skip the ...

Full Metal Jacket

I felt like an animal, and animals don’t know sin, do they?

Wicked Lovely

Life seems so am/pm. But really it’s not as balanced as all that.

A Zebra is the Piano of the Animal Kingdom

Things aren’t often what they appear to be at first blush. But embarrassment is.

A Zebra is the Piano of the Animal Kingdom

Smaller plates discourage gluttony. But so does dining with dwarves.

A Zebra is the Piano of the Animal Kingdom

I sell Ziploc bags. They’re not empty—they’re full of hope.

A Zebra is the Piano of the Animal Kingdom

I want an ocean job, but they’re hard to land.

A Zebra is the Piano of the Animal Kingdom

Laws are chains to the many, and whips to the few.

A Zebra is the Piano of the Animal Kingdom

I think of myself as a theater animal instead of an intellectual animal.

Tom Stoppard

To give a child animal products is a form of child abuse.

Neal Barnard

When an animal dies, it gives you the chance to love another animal. That's an insightful and profound way to look at it.

Jon Katz

Ever occur to you why some of us can be this much concerned with animals suffering? Because government is not. Why not? Animals don't vote.

Paul Harvey