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- They have no consciousness therefore. Therefore what? Therefore we are free to use them for our own ends? Therefore we are free to kill them?…
- Children all over the world consort quite naturally with animals. They don't see any dividing line. That is something they have to be taught, just…
- The most important of all rights is the right to life, and I cannot foresee a day when domesticated animals will be granted that right…
- All over the world, as governments retreat from their traditional duty to foster the common good and reconceive of themselves as mere managers of national…
- It seemed to me that all things were possible on the island, all tyrannies and cruelties, though in small; and if, in despite of what…
- Speaking the words he had been taught, directing them no longer upward but to the earth on which he knelt, he prayed: 'For what we…
- Denunciations of the manipulativeness of advertisers can unfortunately all too easily be turned on their heads into denunciations of the gullibility of consumers. Both are…
- But he cannot see a connection between the end of yearning and the end of poetry. Is that what growing up amounts to: growing out…
- You think you know what is just and what is not. I understand. We all think we know." I had no doubt, myself, then, that…
- To the last we have learned nothing. In all of us, deep down, there seems to be something granite and unteachable. No one truly believes,…
- It gets harder all the time, Bev Shaw once said. Harder, yet easier. One gets used to things getting harder; one ceases to be surprised…
- Pain is truth; all else is subject to doubt.
- When all else fails, philosophize.
- I speak to the broken halves of all our selves and tell them to embrace, loving the worst in us equally with the best.
- Scapegoating worked in practice while it still had religious powers behind it. You loaded the sins of the city on to the goat’s back and…
- You are going to end up as one of those sad old men who poke around in rubbish bins.” “I’m going to end up in…
- We must cultivate, all of us, a certain ignorance, a certain blindness, or society will not be tolerable.
- All autobiography is storytelling; all writing is autobiography.
- In my experience poetry speaks to you either at first sight or not at all. A flash of revelation and a flash of response. Like…
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- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
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- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- A friend to all is a friend to none. — Aristotle