Animal Quotes - Page 25

• Furthermore, a pattern was beginning to emerge: nutrients from animal-based foods increased tumor development while nutrients from plant-based foods decreased tumor development.

  T. Colin Campbell

  Development, Patterns, Plant

  T. Colin Campbell, Thomas M. Campbell (II.) (2006). “The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss and Long-term Health”, p.66, BenBella Books

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• My first attempts to transmit typhus to laboratory animals, including the smaller species of monkeys, had failed, as had those of my predecessors, for reasons which I can easily supply today

  Jules Henry

  Monkeys, Today, Firsts

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• Love. Children are loving, they dont gossip, they dont complain, theyre just open-hearted. Theyre ready for you. They dont judge. They dont see things by way of color. Theyre very child-like. Thats the problem with adults: they lose that child-like quality. And thats the level of inspiration thats so needed and is so important for creating and writing songs and for a sculptor, a poet or a novelist. Its that same kind of innocence, that same level of consciousness, that you create from. And kids have it. I feel it right away from animals and children and nature. Of course.

  Michael Jackson

  Song, Children, Inspiration

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• Even now, as we speak, people are having sex with animals. And we wonder why the animals attack us.

  Dave Attell

  Sex, People, Wonder

  "Skanks for the Memories". Comedy album, 2003.

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• Animals can be driven crazy by placing too many in too small a pen. Homo sapiens is the only animal that voluntarily does this to himself.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Crazy, Doe, Driven

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• He whose intellect overcomes his lust is higher than the angels; he whose lust overcomes his intelligence is less than an animal.

  Rumi

  Angel, Lust, Intelligence

  Jelaluddin Rumi (2005). “The Rumi Collection”, p.16, Shambhala Publications

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• Bear in mind that the children of life are the children of joy; that the lower animals are only unhappy when made so by man; that man alone of all the creatures, has "found out many inventions", the chief of which appears to be the art of making himself miserable, and of seeing all Nature stained with that dark and hateful colour.

  William Henry Hudson

  Life, Art, Nature

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• The primary benefit of a vegan diet is that the removal of animal products usually necessitates a higher amount of nutrient-rich plant produce. The cons of a vegan diet could be the inclusion of too much heavily processed food, including seitan and isolated soy protein, flour, sweeteners and oils.

  Joel Fuhrman

  Oil, Soy, Too Much

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• Family farmers are victims of public policy that gives preference to feeding animals over feeding people. This has encouraged the cheap grain policy of this nation and has made the beef cartel the biggest hog at the trough.

  Howard Lyman

  People, Giving, Beef

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• There is, however, a moral basis for the vegetarian diet for which the indeterminate value of an animal's life takes on irrelevance. And that moral basis is a concern for the environment, a value as absolute as the value we all place on human life, since humanity will not survive for long on a poisoned planet. To be an environmentalist who happens to eat meat is like being a philanthropist who doesn't happen to give to charity.

  Howard Lyman

  Irrelevance, Vegetarian Diet, Long

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• Female heterosexuality is not a biological drive or an individual women's erotic attraction or attachment to another human animal which happens to be male. Female heterosexuality is a set of social institutions and practices... Those definitions... are about the oppression and exploitation of women by men.

  Marilyn Frye

  Men, Heterosexuality Is, Practice

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• I don't look like a desert person because I stay indoors most of the day and fool around at night. That's what the desert animals do - they don't have a tan either.

  Don Van Vliet

  Night, Desert, Looks

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• The depressing thing about an Englishman's traditional love of animals is the dishonesty thereof ... Get a barbed hook into the upper lip of a salmon, drag him endlessly around the water until he loses his strength, pull him to the bank, hit him on the head with a stone, and you may well become fisherman of the year. Shoot.the salmon and you'll never be asked again.

  Clement Freud

  Depressing, Years, Water

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• By ceasing to rear and kill animals for food, we can make so much extra food available for humans that, properly distributed, it would eliminate starvation and malnutrition from this planet. Animal Liberation is Human Liberation too.

  Peter Singer

  Planets, Liberation, Starvation

  Peter Singer (1975). “Animal liberation: a new ethics for our treatment of animals”

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• The markets are moved by animal spirits, and not by reason.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Spirit, Reason, Moved

  "The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money". Book by John Maynard Keynes, Book 4, Chapter 12, Section 7, p. 161, February 1936.

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• I wanted to use what I was, to be what I was born to be - not to have a 'career', but to be that straightforward obvious unmistakable animal, a writer.

  Cynthia Ozick

  Careers, Use, Born

  Cynthia Ozick (1996). “Portrait of the Artist as a Bad Character: And Other Essays on Writing”

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• Christianity is our foe. If animal rights is to succeed, we must destroy the Judeo-Christian religious tradition.

  Peter Singer

  Christian, Religious, Rights

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• Surely there will be some nonhuman animals whose lives, by any standards, are more valuable than the lives of some humans.

  Peter Singer

  Standards, Valuable, Live By

  Peter Singer (1975). “Animal liberation: a new ethics for our treatment of animals”

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• Certainly it is wrong to be cruel to animals and the destruction of a whole species can be a great evil. The capacity for feelings of pleasure and pain and for the form of life of which animals are capable clearly impose duties of compassion and humanity in their case.

  John Rawls

  Pain, Compassion, Evil

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• We have to do away with a false and misleading dualism, one which abstracts man on the one hand and technology on the other, as if the two were quite separate kinds of realities.... Man is by nature a technological animal; to be human is to be technological.... When we speak of technology, this is another way of speaking about man himself in one of his manifestations.

  Daniel Callahan

  Technology, Reality, Men

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• In ten years [i.e., 1980] all important animal life in the sea will be extinct. Large areas of coastline will have to be evacuated because of the stench of dead fish.

  Paul R. Ehrlich

  Years, Sea, Important

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• God looks after children, animals and idiots.

  Lou Holtz

  Children, Looks, Idiot

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• Our reverence for the nobility of manhood will not be lessened by the knowledge that man is in substance and in structure, one with the brutes; for he alone possesses the marvellous endowment of intelligible and rational speech whereby he has slowly accumulated and organized the experience which is almost wholly lost with the cessation of individual life in other animals; so that he now stands raised above it as on a mountain-top, far above the level of his humble fellows, and transfigured from his grosser nature by reflecting, here and there, a ray from the infinite source of truth.

  Thomas Huxley

  Humble, Men, Experience

  1880 Man's Place in Nature.

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• Dull witted brooding people love to stuff themselves with quantities of heavy food, just like animals for fattening. Bubbly intellectual people love foods which stimulate the taste buds without overloading the belly. Profound, meditative people prefer neutral foods which do not have an assertive flavor and are not difficult to digest, and therefore do not demand too much attention.

  Carl Friedrich von Rumohr

  People, Profound, Intellectual

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• Look at the animals roaming the forest: God’s spirit dwells within them. Look at the birds flying across the sky: God’s spirit dwells within them. Look at the tiny insects crawling in the grass: God’s spirit dwells within them. Look at the fish in the river and sea….There is no creature on earth in whom God is absent… his breath had brought every creature to life… God’s spirit is present within plant as well. The presence of God’s spirit in all living things is what makes them beautiful; and if we look with God’s eyes, nothing on earth is ugly.

  Pelagius

  Beautiful, Eye, Sky

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