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Whenever people say, 'We mustn't be sentimental,' you can take it they are about to do something cruel. And if they add,…
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I don't hold animals superior or even equal to humans. The whole case for behaving decently to animals rests on the fact…
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I don't myself believe that, even when we fulfill our minimum obligations not to cause pain, we have the right to kill…
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The popular distinction between 'constructive' and 'destructive' criticism is a sentimentality: the mind too weak to perceive in what respects the bad…
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In a sense, the first (if not necessarily the prime) function of a novelist, of ANY artist, is to entertain. If the…
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The person who kills for fun is announcing that, could he get away with it, he'd kill you for fun. Your...life may…
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The bull-fighter has merely demonstrated that he is a butcher with balletic tendencies.
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To us it seems incredible that the Greek philosophers should have scanned so deeply into right and wrong and yet never noticed…
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The fact that there are bigger injustices and wrongs doesn't make it right to sacrifice an innocent monkey. It doesn't alter the…
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To argue that we humans are capable of complex multifarious thought and feeling, whereas the sheep's perception is probably limited by lowly…
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A medical profession founded on callousness to the pain of the other animals may eventually destroy its own sensibility to the pain…
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"Sentimentalist" is the abuse with which people counter the accusation that they are cruel, thereby implying that to be sentimental is worse…
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It's perfectly obvious that there is some genetic factor that distinguishes humans from other animals and that it is language-specific. The theory…
— Noam Chomsky
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One of the things that distinguishes man from the other animals is that he wants to know things, wants to find out…
— C.S. Lewis
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The importance of insomnia is so colossal that I am tempted to define man as the animal who cannot sleep. Why call…
— Emile M. Cioran
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The bee is more honored than other animals, not because she labors, but because she labors for others.
— Saint John Chrysostom
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We do not ask what hope of gain makes a little bird warble, since we know that it takes delight in singing…
— Johannes Kepler
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Normativity, I believe, is very different from motivating force. Neither includes, or implies, the other. Other animals can be motivated by their…
— Derek Parfit
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The plow is one of the most ancient and most valuable of man's inventions; but long before he existed the land was…
— Charles Darwin
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The arts are the only things that separate us from the other animals. The arts are not decorative. ... They are essential…
— Edward Albee
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You know, we all oppose animal cruelty. But sometimes we forget that animals on farms suffer and feel pain like all other…
— Charlotte Ross
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Once people spend time with farm animals in a loving way ... a pig or cow or a little chicken or a…
— Alicia Silverstone
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People tend to care about dogs because they generally have more experience with dogs as companions; but other animals are as capable…
— Peter Singer
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With the eventual acceptance of Darwin's theory we reach a modern understanding of nature, one which has since then changed in detail…
— Peter Singer
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