Advantage Quote by John Steinbeck

Not longer loved or fostered by religion, beauty is lifted from its face as a mask, and its absence exposes features on that face…

— Hans Urs von Balthasar

The art of procreation and the members employed therein are so repulsive, that if it were not for the beauty of the faces and…

— Leonardo da Vinci

The idea that beauty is unimportant or a cultural construct is the real beauty myth. We have to understand beauty, or we will always…

— Nancy Etcoff

Style, personality - deliberately adopted and therefore a mask - is the only escape from the hot-faced bargainers and money-changers.

— William Butler Yeats

In a world where everything is ridiculous, nothing can be ridiculed. You cannot unmask a mask.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

“people talk of beauty lightly, and having no feeling for words, they use that one carelessly, so that it loses its force; and the…

— W. Somerset Maugham

The case for exploiting animals for food, clothing and entertainment often relies on our superior intelligence, language and self-awareness: the rights of the superior…

— Michael Shermer

“So we sit, inside our separate skins, and every now and then lean forward to gaze hard at another person and read his or…

— Deborah Noyes

There is increasing social concern about our use of nonhumans for experiments, food, clothing and entertainment. This concern about animals reflects both our own…

— Gary L. Francione

one has to give a great deal of oneself to animals if one is to get the best out of them.

— Barbara Woodhouse

“As sentimentality towards animals can be overindulged, so, too, can grim realism, seeing only the things we want in animals and not the animals…

— Matthew Scully

“True beauty is to be found in natural forms. The more we magnify, and the closer we examine, the works of Artifice, the grosser…

— Neal Stephenson