Frivolity Quote by John Lahr Download Open image “Frivolity is the species' refusal to suffer.” — John Lahr ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Frivolity Refusal Species Suffering
“Oftentimes omnivores feel threatened by herbivores. But why? Neither one neither the others aren’t better peer see. It is just that herbivores automatically reduce… — Ema Dan Copy Share Image
Some philosophers have begun writing sympathetically about predator elimination as a way of reducing animal suffering. From an environmental perspective this is somewhere between… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
“Predation is so fundamental to nature that it seems absurd to demonize it for any animal, including humans.” — Jackson Landers Copy Share Image
I refuse to eat animals because I cannot nourish myself by the sufferings and by the death of other creatures. I refuse to do… — David Sztybel Copy Share Image
It is an unfortunate fact that those people who are most eloquent in their demand for the conservation of animals are often those most… — Andrew Linzey Copy Share Image
“We generally accept that it's natural for carnivorous wild animals to kill other animals in order to live. But people don't often think (or… — Marc Bekoff Copy Share Image
The animals you eat are not those who devour others; you do not eat the carnivorous beasts, you take them as your pattern. You… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“What don’t we realize is that we are a strange and forbidding species to wild animals. We fill them with fear. They avoid us… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
As some species die out, forms better adapted to utilize the obstacles against which they struggled in vain come into being. — John Dewey Copy Share Image
...eating animals involves an intentional decision to participate in the suffering and death of nonhumans where there is no plausible moral justification. — Gary L. Francione Copy Share Image
It is a cruel folly to offer up to ostentation so many lives of creatures, as to make up the state of our treats. — William Penn Copy Share Image
“All creatures must learn that there exist predators. Without this knowing, a woman will be unable to negotiate safely within her own forest without… — Clarissa Pinkola Estés Copy Share Image
The British playwright Nina Raine is one of her generation's most promising talents. — John Lahr Copy Share Image
Broadway shows in New York draw two times the attendance of all New York sports teams put together. — John Lahr Copy Share Image
The pigeons are shitting on George M. Cohan. I shoo them off. They fly up and perch on his hat. Cohan would've never given… — John Lahr Copy Share Image
I go to the theatre expecting to have a good time. I want each play and performance to take me somewhere. Naturally, this doesn't… — John Lahr Copy Share Image
Dame Edna is that rarest sighting in our time of the absolute comic, an inspired personification of caprice whose comedy answered the primal call… — John Lahr Copy Share Image
We were postwar middle-class white kids living in the slipstream of the greatest per-capita rise in income in the history of Western civilization; we… — John Lahr Copy Share Image
Momentum was part of the exhilaration and the exhaustion of the twentieth century which Coward decoded for the British but borrowed wholesale from the… — John Lahr Copy Share Image
Death of a Salesman' is a brilliant taxonomy of the spiritual atrophy of mid-twentieth-century white America. — John Lahr Copy Share Image
I detest literature. I abominate the theatre. I have a horror of culture. I am only interested in magic! — John Lahr Copy Share Image
In 1957, 'West Side Story' had introduced the musical to the reckless dark side of teen-age life; 'Bye Bye Birdie,' set in Sweet Apple,… — John Lahr Copy Share Image
The New Yorker's' drama critics have always had a comparable authority because, for the most part, the magazine made it a practice to employ… — John Lahr Copy Share Image
Lord, send Your life throughout the entire church. Visit Your church; restore sound doctrine and holy, earnest living. Take away from professing Christians their… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Youth is always too serious, and just now it is too serious about frivolity. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The people of the United States, perhaps more than any other nation in history, love to abase themselves and proclaim their unworthiness, and seem… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
Seriously, I think it is a grave fault in life that so much time is wasted in social matters, because it not only takes… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
Our large trading cities bear to me very nearly the aspect of monastic establishments in which the roar of the mill-wheel and the crane… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Fashionable women regard themselves, and are regarded by men, as pretty toys or as mere instruments of pleasure; and the vacuity of mind, the… — Sarah Moore Grimke Copy Share Image
I used to do films for money earlier. I never knew what perception meant. I didn't give too much attention to scripts. It was… — Emraan Hashmi Copy Share Image
I am a reasonable and sane functionalist tempered by irrational frivolity. — Alexander Girard Copy Share Image
We are being at once wisely aware of our own frivolity if we avoid hitting and whacking and prefer 'striking' and 'smiting'; talk and… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
a connotation of infinity sharpens the temporal splendor of this night when souls which have forgot frivolity in lowliness,noting the fatal flight of worlds… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The higher powers of the reflective intellect are more decidedly and more usefully tasked by the unostentatious game of draughts than by all the… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
