Accord Quote by Christopher Ryan Download Open image “No creature needs to be threatened with death to act in accord with its own nature” — Christopher Ryan ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Accord Animals Creatures Death Needs Threatened
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Complete non-violence is complete absence of ill-will against all that lives. It therefore embraces even sub-human life, not excluding noxious insects and beasts. They… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
A man is not dependent upon his fellow creature, when he does not fear death. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
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“Marriage," "mating," and "love" are socially constructed phenomena that have little or no transferable meaning outside any given culture. The examples we've noted of… — Christopher Ryan Copy Share Image
“What constitutes misuse of the universe? This question can be answered in one word: greed…. Greed constitutes the most grievous wrong. LAURENTI MAGESA, African… — Christopher Ryan Copy Share Image
“human population growth mushroomed as quality of life plummeted. The shift to agriculture, wrote author Jared Diamond, is a “catastrophe from which we have… — Christopher Ryan Copy Share Image
“As attentive readers may have noted, the standard narrative of heterosexual interaction boils down to prostitution: a woman exchanges her sexual services for access… — Christopher Ryan Copy Share Image
“When James Larrick and his colleagues studied the still relatively isolated Waorani Indians of Ecuador, they found no evidence of hypertension, heart disease, or… — Christopher Ryan Copy Share Image
“The sexually insatiable woman,” declared a terrified Donald Symons, “is to be found primarily, if not exclusively, in the ideology of feminism, the hopes… — Christopher Ryan Copy Share Image
“[Man] has imagined a heaven, and has left entirely out of it the supremest of all his delights, the one ecstasy that stands first… — Christopher Ryan Copy Share Image
“If I had had to choose my place of birth, I would have chosen a state in which everyone knew everyone else, so that… — Christopher Ryan Copy Share Image
“Skeletal remains taken from various regions of the world dating to the transition from foraging to farming all tell the same story: increased famine,… — Christopher Ryan Copy Share Image
“Still, the frequent absence of happiness is what keeps us pursuing it, and thus makes us productive.”10 This is a curious notion of productivity—at… — Christopher Ryan Copy Share Image
“If you’re unhappy at the amount of sexual opportunity in your life, don’t blame the women. Instead, make sure they have equal access to… — Christopher Ryan Copy Share Image
“A fire is never sated by any amount of logs, nor the ocean by rivers that flow into it; death cannot be sated by… — Christopher Ryan Copy Share Image
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Society understands the architecture of academia and knows there are relevant qualifications in different fields, and the media accepts the idea of specialisations and… — Jay Griffiths Copy Share Image
Christian obligation cannot be made to accord with a law of expediency. The Christian's maxims are, Do right because you are bound to do… — Francis Landey Patton Copy Share Image
I've never had a very quiet voice. I tried in choir to make it smaller, and it just didn't work out. And I listened… — Beth Ditto Copy Share Image
It is a very high mind to which gratitude is not a painful sensation. If you wish to please, you will find it wiser… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
To act choicelessly is to act in accord with the situation. If someone throws a rock, you duck. — Rami M. Shapiro Copy Share Image
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It is a misfortune that necessity has induced men to accord greater license to this formidable engine, in order to obtain liberty, than can… — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
Life is a cutup. And to pretend that you write or paint in a timeless vacuum is just simply . . . not .… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
The dominant propaganda systems have appropriated the term "globalization" to refer to the specific version of international economic integration that they favor, which privileges… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The fineness which a hymn or psalm affords / If when the soul unto the lines accords. — George Herbert Copy Share Image
