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Them Quotes by J M Coetzee
- They have no consciousness therefore. Therefore what? Therefore we are free to use them for our own ends? Therefore we are free to kill them?…
- Children all over the world consort quite naturally with animals. They don't see any dividing line. That is something they have to be taught, just…
- That has always seemed to me one of the stranger aspects of literary fame: you prove your competence as a writer and an inventor of…
- Speaking the words he had been taught, directing them no longer upward but to the earth on which he knelt, he prayed: 'For what we…
- Let me say it openly: we are surrounded by an enterprise of degradation, cruelty, and killing which rivals anything the Third Reich was capable of,…
- If it is indeed impossible - or at least very difficult - to inhabit the consciousness of an animal, then in writing about animals there…
- You think you know what is just and what is not. I understand. We all think we know." I had no doubt, myself, then, that…
- His mind has become a refuge for old thoughts, idle, indigent, with nowhere else to go. He ought to chase them out, sweep the premises…
- I speak to the broken halves of all our selves and tell them to embrace, loving the worst in us equally with the best.
- Music expresses feeling, that is to say, gives shape and habitation to feeling, not in space but in time. To the extent that music has…
- In a world of chance is there a better and a worse? We yield to a stranger's embrace or give ourselves to the waves; for…
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- If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them. — Pietro Aretino
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- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. — Aristotle
- Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. — Aristotle
- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
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