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Becoming a vegetarian is not merely a symbolic gesture. Nor is it an attempt to isolate oneself from the ugly realities of…
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The problem is not with the athletes, but with us. No matter how blatant the drug use may be, we don't stop…
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We see things like reciprocity which are fairly central to our view of ethics. But if you're talking about a set of…
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I would like us to think about it more explicitly, and not take our intuitions as the given of ethics, but rather…
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If a being suffers there can be no moral justification for refusing to take that suffering into consideration. No matter what the…
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Pain is pain, and the importance of preventing unnecessary pain and suffering does not diminish because the being that suffers is not…
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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…
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There has been opposition to experimenting on animals for a long time. This opposition has made little headway because experimenters, backed by…
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It may be thought justifiable to require tests on animals of potentially life-saving drugs, but the same kinds of tests are used…
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As for cages themselves, an ordinary citizen who kept dogs in similar conditions for their entire lives would risk prosecution for cruelty.…
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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…
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...chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, and orangutans are thinking, self-aware beings, capable of planning ahead, who form lasting social bonds with others and have…
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The two great aims of industrialism — replacement of people by technology and concentration of wealth into the hands of a small…
— Wendell Berry
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I am not a capitalist soldier; I am a proletarian revolutionist. I do not belong to the regular army of the plutocracy,…
— Eugene V. Debs
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The lobby is the army of the plutocracy.
— William Graham Sumner
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People live with the illusion that we have a democratic system, but it's only the outward form of one. In reality we…
— Jose Saramago
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The governments of the Western nations, whether monarchical or republican, had passed into the invisible hands of a plutocracy, international in power…
— J F C Fuller
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Our society will always remain an unstable and explosive compound as long as political power is vested in the masses and economic power in…
— Irving Fisher
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Iwill always fight for progress and reform, never tolerate injustice or corruption, always fight demagogues of all parties, never belong to any…
— Joseph Pulitzer
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Abolish plutocracy if you would abolish poverty.
— Rutherford B. Hayes
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The great masses of men, though theoretically free, are seen to submit supinely to oppression and exploitation of a hundred abhorrent sorts.…
— H. L. Mencken
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We're not a democracy. It's a terrible misunderstandin g and a slander to the idea of democracy to call us that. In…
— Ramsey Clark
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Dark influences from the American past congregate among us still. If we are a democracy, what are we to make of the…
— Harold Bloom
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Every civilization carries the seeds of its own destruction, and the same cycle shows in them all. The Republic is born, flourishes,…
— Mark Twain
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