According to classical utilitarianism, the only intrinsic good is happiness; the only intrinsic bad is pain. That implies no intrinsic value in… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
we raise them for us; that means we owe them some respect. nature is creul but we dont have to be. i… — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
Brahma was excessively sparing with earth, water, and fire… The reckless expenditure of air and ether in his composition was amazing. And,… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
Twenty years ago I wanted to move to a nice place so our Charley would grow up a nice boy and learn… — Abraham Polonsky Copy Share Image
We're animals, I think we forget that. I think there is an ancient archetypal memory that still exists within us. If we… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
In all warm-blooded creatures, which are the highest evolved and have feelings, passions and emotions, which reach outward into the world with… — Max Heindel Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think that the only effective and productive method of destroying speciesism would be for each uncaring human to be forced… — Gary Yourofsky Copy Share Image
I still believe that a plant-based diet has tremendous health benefits, but I have incorporated more animal protein into my diet. I… — Bob Harper Copy Share Image
You believe in a book that has talking animals, wizards, witches, demons, sticks turning into snakes, burning bushes, food falling from the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears - as the song of birds,… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
A dog will stay stupid. That's why we love them so much. The entire time we know them, they're idiots. Think of… — Jerry Seinfeld Copy Share Image
A sponge is a funny animal to center a show on. At first, I drew a few natural sponges - amorphous shapes,… — Stephen Hillenburg Copy Share Image
She screamed, the high scream that was neither human nor animal but something terrible in between, the sort of sound that you… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
The indifference, callousness and contempt that so many people exhibit toward animals is evil first because it results in great suffering in… — Ashley Montagu Copy Share Image
Human beings are tool-making animals. Since the prehistoric era, we have created and used a wide variety of objects. But now a… — John Twelve Hawks Copy Share Image
Why does man regret, even though he may endeavour to banish any such regret, that he has followed the one natural impulse,… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
If the impure and the unjust, the drunkard and the licentious, are loathsome to us, what must be the infinite loathing of… — Lyman Abbott Copy Share Image
Animals are God's creatures, not human property, nor utilities, nor resources, nor commodities, but precious beings in God's sight. ...Christians whose eyes… — Andrew Linzey Copy Share Image
I'm a huge animal lover - I love animals to death. I've got tortoises and three dogs, and I've had a million… — Roshon Fegan Copy Share Image
Who taught me that animals were put on this Earth for food? Who taught me to disrespect animals and view them as… — Gary Yourofsky Copy Share Image
“Abandon a dachshund and upon your return, you may well be confronted with a small token of her displeasure. This, for the… — Mary Doria Russell Copy Share Image
The song writing is different because with this stuff, I write it on my own and with Hot Water, we're more of… — Chuck Ragan Copy Share Image
There is no character, howsoever good and fine, but it can be destroyed by ridicule, howsoever poor and witless. Observe the ass,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I grew up in northern Minnesota on 40 acres of wooded land 20 miles from the nearest town, and so the wilderness… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
Growing up on a farm taught me a reverence for all forms of life. We were a large and poor farm family,… — Roger Fouts Copy Share Image
We think we know that chimpanzees are higher animals and earthworms are lower, we think we've always known what that means, and… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Our thoughts ought by instinct to fly upwards from animals, men and natural objects to their creator. If created things are so… — Anthony of Padua Copy Share Image
The idea of death, the fear of it, haunts the human animal like nothing else; it is a mainspring of human activity… — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
No justification of virtue will enable a man to be virtuous. Without the aid of trained emotions the intellect is powerless against… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Based on my time living with rats and mice in Washington, D.C., I have always assumed that animals will escape such fires,… — Bruce Friedrich Copy Share Image
When I behold a fashionable table set out in all its magnificence, I fancy that I see gouts and dropsies, fevers and… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
When the dog is repeatedly teased with the sight of objects inducing salivary secretion from a distance, the reaction of the salivary… — Ivan Pavlov Copy Share Image
From the oyster to the eagle, from the swine to the tiger, all animals are to be found in men and each… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Sometimes I get lonesome for a storm. A full blown storm where everything changes. The sky goes through four days in an… — Joan Baez Copy Share Image
There are more obese people in the world than starving people. As China and India start to develop our eating habits -… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
One thing that attracts me in Daoism and Heidegger is a delicate combination of recognizing deep differences between human being and any… — David E. Cooper Copy Share Image
Many of the earth's habitats, animals, plants, insects and even micro-organisms that we know to be rare may not be known at… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
One of my obsession is animals. I'm into dog rescues. It drives me crazy when people go to pet stores and buy… — Jim O'Heir Copy Share Image
What makes us human is that we ask questions. All the animals have interests, instincts and conceptions. All the animals frame for… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
Seven to eleven is a huge chunk of life, full of dulling and forgetting. It is fabled that we slowly lose the… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
