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• To despise our own species is the price we must often pay for knowledge of it. — Charles Caleb Colton
• I am entitled to say, if I like, that awareness exists in all the individual creatures on the planet-worms, sea urchins, gnats,… — Lewis Thomas
• As our own species is in the process of proving, one cannot have superior science and inferior morals. The combination is unstable… — Arthur C. Clarke
• Pain is pain, and the importance of preventing unnecessary pain and suffering does not diminish because the being that suffers is not… — Peter Singer
• The reality is that if we in this rich, lucky quarter of the planet cannot make a stand for the 30 million… — Bob Brown
• So far as this argument is concerned nonhuman animals and infants and retarded humans are in the same category; and if we… — Peter Singer
• The green prehuman earth is the mystery we were chosen to solve, a guide to the birthplace of our spirit, but it… — E. O. Wilson
• Primitives of our own species, even today are historically shallow in their knowledge of the past. Only the poet who writes speaks… — Loren Eiseley
• ...we sacrifice other species to our own not because our own has any objective metaphysical privilege over others, but simply because it… — C.S. Lewis
• My aim is to advocate that we make this mental switch in respect of our attitudes and practices towards a very large… — Peter Singer
• We cannot learn freedom and responsibility within the confines of our own species. We cannot understand life and death and what they… — Stephanie Mills
• Taught to regard a part of our own Species in the most abject and contemptible Degree below us, we lose that Idea… — George Mason

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