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When we shrink from the sight of something, when we shroud it in euphemism, that is usually a sign of inner conflict,…
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I know a 'crime against nature' when I see one. It is usually a sign of crimes against nature that we cannot…
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Animals have this way of constantly confronting us with ultimate questions - about truth and falsehood, guilt and innocence, God and sanctity…
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Where we find wrongs done to animals, it is no excuse to say that more important wrongs are done to human beings,…
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Go into the largest livestock operation, search out the darkest and tiniest stall or pen, single out the filthiest, most forlorn little…
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My point is that when you look at a rabbit and can see only a pest, or vermin, or a meal, or…
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To the factory farmer, in contrast to the traditional farmer with his sense of honor and obligation, the animals are production units,…
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Regarding factory-farmed animals We owe them a merciful death, and we owe them a merciful life. And when human beings cannot do…
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Religious people ... hold a kind and merciful view of life, the faith of the broken, the hounded, the hopeless. Yet too…
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An author describing the methods of intensive farming, or the excesses of sport hunting, or even the harsher uses of animals in…
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Perhaps that is part of the animals' role among us, to awaken humility, to turn our minds back to the mystery of…
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The factory farm is . . . an obvious moral evil so sickening and horrendous. . . All this so we can…
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On the terrace of the Pepiniere, the 150 pupils of the Institut Chemique talk chemistry as they leave the auditoria and the…
— Victor Grignard
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She what was honour knew, And with obsequious majesty approv'd My pleaded reason. To the nuptial bower I led her blushing like…
— John Milton
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The good are better made by ill, As odours crushed are sweeter still.
— Samuel Rogers
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A garden full of sweet odours is a garden full of charm, a most precious kind of charm not to be implanted…
— Louise Wilder
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The smell of factory farms . . . many notice these places only when the odours reach their homes, affecting their own…
— Matthew Scully
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Perfumes are the feelings of flowers, and as the human heart, imagining itself alone and unwatched, feels most deeply in the night-time,…
— Heinrich Heine
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The simplest forms in the universe are the sphere and the circle. I represent them by disks and then I vary them...…
— Alexander Calder
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Music, when soft voices die, Vibrates in the memory; Odours, when sweet violets sicken, Live within the sense they quicken. Rose leaves,…
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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To-day I think Only with scents, - scents dead leaves yield, And bracken, and wild carrot's seed, And the square mustard field;…
— Edward Thomas
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He was consious of a thousand odours floating in the air, each one connected with a thousand thoughts, and hopes, and joys,…
— Charles Dickens
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But the trees were gorgeous in their autumnal leafiness - the warm odours of flowers and herb came sweet upon the sense.
— Elizabeth Gaskell
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Virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when it is crushed.
— Baroness Orczy
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