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Brigid Brophy has 13 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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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I sometimes hear preachers speak of the sad condition of men who live without God in the world, but a scientist who…
— Louis Agassiz
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Compassion is the basis of all truthful relationship: it means being present with love-for ourselves and for all life, including animals, fish,…
— Ram Dass
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The most difficult thing for us seems to be to give of ourselves, to do away with selfishness. If we really love…
— Nathan Eldon Tanner
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When nothing makes sense and the world seems upside down, listen to your heart, it will never lie about your true feelings.
— Leon Brown
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The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born under the…
— John Jay Chapman
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Women of the world today dress alike. They are like so many loaves of bread. To be beautiful one must be unhurried.…
— Unknown Author
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As happy a man as any in the world, for the whole world seems to smile upon me!
— Samuel Pepys
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The end of childhood is when things cease to astonish us. When the world seems familiar, when one has got used to…
— Eugene Ionesco
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Opinions. Ideas. Possibilities. So many! How can I choose? Between bursts of lightning-swift energy, I enjoy peaceful moments when the whole world…
— Margarita Engle
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The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born under the…
— John Jay Chapman
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The experience of each new age requires a new confession, and the world seems always waiting for its poet
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Like the appearance of silver in mother of pearl, the world seems real until the Self, the underlying reality, is realized.
— Adi Shankara
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