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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
- A man, who can, in cold blood, hunt and torture a poor, innocent animal, cannot feel much compassion for the distress of… — Frederick The Great
- 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
- To the mind which looks not to general results in the economy of Nature, the earth may seem to present a scene… — William Buckland
- 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
- Racists violate the principle of equality by giving greater weight to the interests of members of their own race when there is… — Peter Singer
- So far as this argument is concerned nonhuman animals and infants and retarded humans are in the same category; and if we… — Peter Singer
- Because one species is more clever than another, does it give it the right to imprison or torture the less clever species?… — Richard D. Ryder
- 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