Anthropocentrism Quote by Mary Midgley

Anthropocentrism is simply irrational. And yet this is the thrust of much of our traditional religious thought and teaching, particularly in the West.

— Russell E. Train

When one loves animals and children too much, one loves them against human beings.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

The problem isn't to learn to love humanity, but to learn to love those members of it who happen to be at hand.

— Samuel R. Delany

I feel all those human beings to be pernicious who can no longer oppose what they love: they thereby ruin the best things and…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Anthropocentrism, regarding human kind as the very center and pinnacle of existence, is a disease of arrested development.

— Michael Fox

“Humans want to conquer everyone they can, and buy everything they see. I think this is because humans have forgotten how to be happy.…

— A.S. King

When we abolish the slavery of half of humanity, together with the whole system of hypocrisy it implies, then the "division" of humanity will…

— Simone de Beauvoir

The anthropic principle is an unfortunate name as it implies something about humanity.

— Paul Davies

I think human self-hatred may be the great untold story of the millennium. It's the common thread linking deep ecology and animal rights, the…

— Annie Gottlieb

To be human is inevitably, to hate oneself sometimes, to hunger for the perfect stability and in a way the perfect justice or at…

— John Gardner

For as long as human beings are forced to live in a system that at every turn impedes the fulfillment of their basic human…

— Riane Eisler

“Yet it is—paradoxical though it may seem—precisely in the response of the oppressed to the violence of their oppressors that a gesture of love…

— Pedagogy of the Oppressed