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Ultimately the case for shunning animal flesh does not rest on what the Buddha allegedly said or didn't say. What is does rest on is… — Philip Kapleau
To put the flesh of an animal into one's belly makes one an accessory after the fact of its slaughter, simply because if cows, pigs,… — Philip Kapleau
A man that is endued with the powers of reason, by which he is capable of knowing, serving, glorifying, and enjoying his Maker, and yet… — Matthew Henry
Men always do leave off really thinking, when the last bit of wild animal dies in them. — D. H. Lawrence
No animal is so inexhaustible as an excited infant. — Unknown Author
The problem of values arises only when men try to fit together their need to be social animals with their need to be free men.… — Jacob Bronowski
Care for all the animals they need our help Care for all the children stop thinking of ourselves. And if we work together to try… — Country Joe McDonald
The melting pot failed to function in one crucial area. Religions and nationalities, however different, generally learned to live together, even to grow together, in… — Theodore Hesburgh
There are qualities which grow as meditation deepens. For example, you start feeling loving for no reason at all. Not the love that you know,… — Rajneesh
How many times do we pay for one mistake? The answer is a thousand times for the same mistake. The human is the only animal… — Miguel Angel Ruiz
Flowers have an expression of countenance as much as men or animals. Some seem to smile; some have a sad expression; some are pensive and… — Henry Ward Beecher
It always seems to me when the anti-suffrage members of the Government criticize militancy in women that it is very like beasts of prey reproaching… — Emmeline Pankhurst
It is true, says Liebeg, that thousands have lived without a knowledge of tea and coffee; and daily experience teaches us that, under certain circumstances,… — Isabella Beeton
Human beings aren't rational animals; we're rationalizing animals who want to appear reasonable to ourselves. — Elliot Aronson
Birds rising in flight is a sign that the enemy is lying in ambush; when the wild animals are startled and flee he is trying… — Sun Tzu
Man is an animal with primary instincts of survival. Consequently his ingenuity has developed first and his soul afterwards. The progress of science is far… — Charlie Chaplin
So in regard to mental qualities, their transmission is manifest in our dogs, horses and other domestic animals. Besides special tastes and habits, general intelligence,… — Charles Darwin
The equation of animal and vegetable life is too complicated a problem for human intelligence to solve, and we can never know how wide a… — George Perkins Marsh
The largest land animal is the elephant, and it is the nearest to man in intelligence: it understands the language of its country and obeys… — Pliny the Elder
Reason is man's faculty for grasping the world by thought, in contradiction to intelligence, which is man's ability to manipulate the world with the help… — Erich Fromm
Animals are being exploited in such an unbelievable way; it's not acceptable. — Alicia Silverstone
I don't think I have ever been as inspired by any character that I have played. I was deeply moved by Temple's courage and her… — Claire Danes
Nor was civil society founded merely to preserve the lives of its members; but that they might live well: for otherwise a state might be… — Aristotle
I know of no pursuit in which more real and important services can be rendered to any country than by improving its agriculture, its breed… — George Washington
If modern civilization man had to kill the animals he eats, the number of vegetarians would rise astronomically. — Christian Morgenstern

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