Creatures Quotes

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We are creatures of the moment; we live from one little space to another, and only one interest at a time fills these. — William Dean Howells
Nine years after I had my own accident, I find that in trying to go back to doing those things that I used to do… — Ben Vereen
I brainwashed youngsters into doing wrong. I want to say sorry to children everywhere for selling out to people who make millions by murdering other… — Geoffrey Giuliano
My situation is a solemn one: life is offered to me on the condition of eating beefsteaks. But death is better than cannibalism. My will… — George Bernard Shaw
There slowly grew up in me an unshakable conviction that we have no right to inflict suffering and death on another living creature, unless there… — Albert Schweitzer
It is increasingly obvious that environmentally sustainable solutions to world hunger can only emerge as people eat more plant foods and fewer animal products. To… — John Robbins
I do not see any reason why animals should be slaughtered to serve as human diet when there are so many substitutes. After all, man… — Dalai Lama
Flesh eating is simply immoral, as it involves the performance of an act which is contrary to moral feeling: By killing, man suppresses in himself,… — Leo Tolstoy
We stopped eating meat many years ago. During the course of a Sunday lunch we happened to look out of the kitchen window at our… — Linda McCartney
The moral duty of man consists of imitating the moral goodness and beneficence of God, manifested in the creation towards all his creatures. Everything of… — Thomas Paine
The moral duty of man consists of imitatingthe moral goodness and beneficence of God,manifested in the creation, toward all His creatures. — Thomas Paine
Basically we should stop doing those things that are destructive to the environment, other creatures, and ourselves and figure out new ways of existing. — Moby
Vegetarianism can easily reach religious proportions. Refraining from meat on moral grounds serves to dignify feelings of guilt toward sad-eyed, furry creatures and substitutes righteousness… — Bill Griffith
Brody cannot believe the size of the creature, and with a classic, practical understatement tells Quint his assessment: You're gonna need a bigger boat. Awestruck,… — Roy Scheider
Remember, young men, that purity precedes power. The Lord said, 'But purify your hearts before me; and then go ye into all the world, and… — M. Russell Ballard
I believe that God is totally moral, but nature, one of God's creatures, is not moral. Nature is blind. — Harold S. Kushner
Infidelity is one of those coinages,-a mass of base money that won't pass current with any heart that loves truly, or any head that thinks… — Thomas Chalmers
Pity is not natural to man. Children and savages are always cruel. Pity is acquired and improved by the cultivation of reason. We may have… — Samuel Johnson
Though we may be genetically wired for temporary happiness, we've also been gifted with the ability to recognize within ourselves a more profound and lasting… — Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche
Who can know her, and himself, and entertain much hope? Who can see and know such a creature, and not love her to distraction? She… — Edmund Burke

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