Morality, as has often been pointed out, is antecedent to religion-it even exists in a rudimentary form among animals. — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
I became a vegetarian after I became aware of factory farming and slaughterhouses and the torture and inhumane handling of all these… — Kevin Nealon Copy Share Image
Man is a moral animal abandoned in an amoral universe and condemned to a finite existence with no other prupose than to… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
All breathing beings are spiritual; this includes everyone who breathes, whether they are animals or humans, carnivores or vegetarians. — Sharon Gannon Copy Share Image
We are civilized human beings, but we're all animals deep down, and that creates a certain friction in all of us. — Alexander Skarsgard Copy Share Image
Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
Q: If you could be an animal, what kind of animal would you be? A: You already are an animal. — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Fiction, with its preference for what is small and might elsewhere seem irrelevant; its facility for smuggling us into another skin and… — David Malouf Copy Share Image
“Maybe the greatest anger and frustration come not from unemployment or poverty or the lack of a future but from the feeling… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
“It's the way he gets noticed, you know? I mean, imagine what it would be like if you were a squirrel living… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“Just as humanity has extended this basic equal consideration to humans (including those who were once outside of our moral community), we… — Bob Torres Copy Share Image
Now, being in Africa, I was hungry for more of it, the changes of the seasons, the rains with no need to… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
There are a million ideas in a world of stories. Humans are storytelling animals. Everything's a story, everyone's got stories, we're perceiving… — Richard Linklater Copy Share Image
My Sunday school teachers had turned Bible narrative into children's fables. They talked about Noah and the ark because the story had… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
We have never understood why men mount the heads of animals and hang them up to look down on their conquerers. Possibly… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
