"Whenever and wherever men have engaged in the……" — Farley Mowat
"Whenever and wherever men have engaged in the mindless slaughter of animals (including other men), they have often attempted to justify their acts by attributing the most vicious or revolting qualities to those they would destory; and the less reason there is for the slaughter, the greater the campaign for vilification."
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Farley Mowat
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18 Quotes by Farley Mowat
Farley Mowat has 18 quotes on this site.
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I never let the facts get in the way of the truth!
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Without a function, we cease to be. So, I will write till I die.
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We're under some gross misconception that we're a good species, going somewhere important, and that at the last minute we'll…
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I write every day. I'm always in the process of writing my last book, until the next one.
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It is in our nature to travel into our past, hoping thereby to illuminate the darkness that bedevils the present.
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I believe in God the way my dog does
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Mutt enjoyed traveling by car, but he was an unquiet passenger. He suffered from the delusion, common to dogs and…
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Stephen Harper is probably the most dangerous human being ever elevated to power in Canada.
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The wolf never kills for fun, which is probably one of the main differences distinguishing him from man.
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I write better in Cape Breton... too many people around in Ontario. Down there I meet all sorts of non-human…
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If you are going to be a big personality, you've got to have some kind of characteristic gimmick.
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I have to go on writing because I wouldn't be able to go on without writing. It is the only…
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The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all…
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Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate…
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The act of dying is one of the acts of life.
— Marcus Aurelius
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Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.
— Teresa of Avila
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What matters is to live in the present, live now, for every moment is now. It is your thoughts and…
— Sai Baba
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We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs.…
— Philip James Bailey
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A speculator is a man who observes the future, and acts before it occurs.
— Bernard Baruch
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Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a…
— Joseph Addison
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The real 'action' in the liturgy in which we are all supposed to participate is the action of God himself.…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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Every individual acts and suffers in accordance with his peculiar teleology, which has all the inevitability of fate, so long…
— Alfred Adler
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He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.
— William Blake
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Most recently, terrorist forces have captured Israeli soldiers and fired rockets into Israeli cities - both unprovoked. These acts of…
— John Boehner
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