Pigs Quotes - Page 5

• We felt that the police needed a label, a label other than that fear image that they carried in the community. So we used the pig as the rather low-lifed animal in order to identify the police. And it worked.

  Huey Newton

  Fear, Animal, Order

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• I'd rather not deal with such questions, because anyway it's like shearing a pig - lots of screams but little wool.

  Vladimir Putin

  Wool, Littles, Scream

  "Putin: NSA whistleblower Snowden is in Moscow airport". Speech on an official visit to Finland, www.theguardian.com. June 26, 2013.

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• I argued that the Bush administration, and the Coalition officials more recently, didn't understand Iraqi society. They thought it was a blank slate, that they could use Iraqis as guinea pigs.

  Juan Cole

  Use, Administration, Guinea

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• Our family holidays always include our animals. On Thanksgiving, we love to walk around our farm and visit with our rescued pigs, goats, horses, emus and many other rescued animals. We give them all special vegetables that day, and the whole family enjoys a vegetarian Thanksgiving dinner. We know that the animals are giving thanks that day, and we are also giving thanks for the joy they bring to our lives.

  Noah Wyle

  Thanksgiving, Horse, Holiday

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• With every fragment of rock that fall from me, I can hear the voice of Marianne Engle. I love you. Aishiteru. Ego amo te. Ti amo. Eg elska pig. Ich liebe dich. It is moving across time, coming to me in every language of the world, and it sounds like pure love.

  Andrew Davidson

  Love, Moving, Fall

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• The sequence of theorist, experimenter, and discovery has occasionally been compared to the sequence of farmer, pig, truffle. The farmer leads the pig to an area where there might be truffles. The pig searches diligently for the truffles. Finally, he locates one, and just as he is about to devour it, the farmer snatches it away.

  Leon M. Lederman

  Science, Discovery, Might

  Leon M. Lederman, Dick Teresi (1993). “The God Particle: If the Universe is the Answer, what is the Question?”, p.16, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• No one as yet has approached the management of New York in a proper spirit; that is to say, regarding it as the shiftless outcome of squalid barbarism and reckless extravagance. No one is likely to do so, because reflections on the long narrow pig-trough are construed as malevolent attacks against the spirit and majesty of the American people, and lead to angry comparisons.

  Rudyard Kipling

  New York, Reflection, Long

  Rudyard Kipling (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of Rudyard Kipling (Illustrated)”, p.4529, Delphi Classics

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• Looking at the world through the sunset in your eyes, traveling the train through clear Moroccan skies. Ducks and pigs and chickens call, animal carpet wall to wall, American ladies five-foot tall in blue. Sweeping cobwebs from the edges of my mind, had to get away to see what we could find. Hope the days that lie ahead, bring us back to where they've led, listen not to what's been said to you. Wouldn't you know we're riding on the Marrakesh Express? Wouldn't you know we're riding on the Marrakesh Express, they're taking me to Marrakesh. All aboard the train, all aboard the train...

  Graham Nash

  Wall, Lying, Sunset

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• There was an Old Person of Bray, Who sang through the whole of the day To his ducks and his pigs, whom he fed upon figs, That valuable Person of Bray.

  Edward Lear

  Ducks, Figs, Feds

  Lewis Carroll, Edward Lear (2004). “Utter Nonsense: Selected Poems of Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear”, p.29, Lonely Scribe

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• The Germans sell chemical weapons to Iran and Iraq. The wounded are then sent to Germany to be treated. Veritable human guinea pigs.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Iran, Iraq, Germany

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• The labor of a human being is not a commodity or article of commerce. You can't weigh the soul of a man with a bar of pig-iron.

  Samuel

  Men, Iron, Soul

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• 100,000,000 Guinea Pigs sparked a rising wave of consumer indignation. But...it takes a major catastrophe to carry legal and enforcement action over the hump of lethargy and inaction....Today, nearly forty years later, the situation is worse, not better.

  John Grant Fuller

  Dark, Years, Age

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• If I am to be a chauvinist pig, I want to be the number one pig.

  Bobby Riggs

  Numbers, Want, Ifs

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• The greatest job I ever had was working on my family farm. Each morning my father would come into my bedroom around 4:30 am and command me to get up and work the fields. I would spend the next two hours before school slopping pigs and cropping tobacco.

  Armstrong Williams

  Morning, Jobs, Father

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• My boarding school experience was the only thing I had strong enough feelings to write about for hundreds and hundreds of pages. I can still smell the formaldehyde of the fetal pigs in biology.

  Curtis Sittenfeld

  Strong, Writing, School

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• My parents moved to Los Angeles when I was really young, but I spent every summer with my grandparents, and I'd stay with my grandfather on the farm in Longview. He was retired from the railroad, and he had a small farm with some cows and some pigs. I remember part of my youth was feeding hogs and plowing fields and stuff, so that's a part of me.

  Forest Whitaker

  Summer, Grandparent, Grandfather

  Interview with Evan Smith, www.texasmonthly.com. December 2006.

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• Madame....gloatingly savored her words as earlier she had savored her pig's trotter.

  Georges Simenon

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• Here you do have forests, where pigs could be raised by letting them root about in the forests for a good part of the year. Therefore, you have a different attitude toward them compared with what continues to exist in the Middle East.

  Marvin Harris

  Attitude, Years, Roots

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• Learning as we go... Why didn't they tell us this before? We, the consumers, are supposed to be docile guinea pigs in a vast but uncontrolled experiment with powerful hormones (HRT). That's quite a commentary on "scientific medicine".

  Ralph W. Moss

  Powerful, Medicine, Guinea

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• A culture that just views a pig as a pile of protoplasmic inanimate structure, and can be manipulated by whatever creative design humans can foist upon that critter, will probably view individuals within its community and other cultures in the community of nations, with the same type of disdain and disrespect and controlling-type mentality.

  Joel Salatin

  Views, Other Cultures, Design

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• If we compare a severely defective human infant with a nonhuman animal, a dog or a pig, for example, we will often find the nonhuman to have superior capacities, both actual and potential, for rationality, self-consciousness, communication and anything else that can plausibly be considered morally significant.

  Peter Singer

  Dog, Communication, Animal

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• Respecting and honoring the pigness of the pig is a foundation for societal health.

  Joel Salatin

  Foundation

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• Kennedy had made a mess in Cuba at the Bay of Pigs. He had to do something to look good. The Apollo program of going to the Moon was quite a goal.

  Wally Schirra

  Moon, Goal, Cuba

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• I was very disturbed when Jesus found a demon in a guy, and he put the demon in a herd of pigs, then sent them off a cliff. What did the pigs do? I could never figure that out. It just seemed very un-Christian. Technically, I'm an agnostic, but I definitely believe in hell -- especially after watching the fall TV schedule.

  Matt Groening

  Christian, Jesus, Believe

  "Questions for: Matt Groening". www.nytimes.com. December 27, 1998.

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• If arithmetic overflow is a fatal error, some fascist pig with a read-only mind is trying to enforce machine independence.

  Bill Gosper

  Errors, Independence, Mind

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