Civilized society Quote by Adam Smith

“That whereby man differs from the lower animals is but small. Most people throw it away; only”

— Will Durant

“Fur, feathers, scales or skin…we coexist. We must. If humans fail to cohabitate with the natural world, they will become extinct. We need the…

— Rick Wood

“Never listen when they tell you that Man and the animals have a common interest, that the prosperity of the one is the prosperity…

— George Orwell

“We’ve discovered that any species that exempts itself from the rules of competition ends up destroying the community in order to support its own…

— Daniel Quinn

“A diet based on quantity rather than quality has ushered a new creature onto the world stage: the human being who manages to be…

— Michael Pollan

“If animals are just commodities, then we are just consumers, with no greater good than material pleasure and no higher law than appetite.”

— Matthew Scully

Man is the only animal which esteems itself rich in proportion to the number and voracity of its parasites.

— George Bernard Shaw

“Thus by an unprejudiced observation of the animal kingdom, we reach the conclusion that wherever society exists at all, this principle may be found:…

— Peter Kropotkin

On an overcrowded planet where more species slip toward extinction every day, should one species have the right to multiply and consume at will,…

— Thomas French

“The power of population is so superior to the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man, that premature death must in some…

— Anonymous

“Sometimes animals are more human than men and men more animals than animals”

— Michelangelo Saez

“Our humanity consists in the fact that we do more than survive, that a great part of what we do confers no survival benefit…

— Marilynne Robinson