Animal Quotes - Page 35

• Permaculture creates a cultivated ecology, which is designed to produce more human and animal food than is generally found in nature.

  Bill Mollison

  Found, Produce, Permaculture

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• Therefore, the Negro nation are, as a rule, submissive to slavery, because [Negroes] have little [that is essentially] human and have attributes that are quite similar to those of dumb animals, as we have stated.

  Ibn Khaldun

  Dumb, Slavery, Littles

  "Muqaddimah" translated by Franz Rosenthal, Princeton University Press, 1981.

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• Beyond [known peoples of black West Africa] to the south there is no civilization in the proper sense. There are only humans who are closer to dumb animals than to rational beings. They live in thickets and caves, and eat herbs and unprepared grain. They frequently eat each other. They cannot be considered human beings.

  Ibn Khaldun

  Civilization, Dumb, Black

  "Muqaddimah" translated by Franz Rosenthal, Princeton University Press, 1981.

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• Palestinians caged up like animals.

  Chuck Hagel

  Palestinian, Caged

  "Was Chuck Hagel ‘Just Plain Bad’ in His Confirmation Hearing?" by Robert Naiman, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 3, 2013.

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• I was born Feb. 12, 1809, in Hardin County, Kentucky. My parents were both born in Virginia, of undistinguished families--second families, perhaps I should say. My mother, who died in my tenth year, was of a family of the name of Hanks.... My father ... removed from Kentucky to ... Indiana, in my eighth year.... It was a wild region, with many bears and other wild animals still in the woods. There I grew up.... Of course when I came of age I did not know much. Still somehow, I could read, write, and cipher ... but that was all.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Mother, Father, Writing

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• I want to be a taxidermist! I wanna fill animals with sand. I wanna get more sand into an animal than anybody has ever bloody got in one. I wanna fill a rat with the entire Gobi Desert, so it’s really quite tight.

  Eddie Izzard

  Desert, Want, Rats

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• Human beings are pattern-seeking animals. It's part of our DNA. That's why conspiracy theories and gods are so popular: we always look for the wider, bigger explanations for things.

  Adrian McKinty

  Dna, Patterns, Looks

  Adrian McKinty (2016). “The Sean Duffy Collection”, p.278, Serpent's Tail

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• Led Zeppelin was a very sensitive and beautiful animal beast.

  Robert Plant

  Beautiful, Zeppelins, Beast

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• Factory-farm lobbyists are so powerful and so well funded and they do everything in their power to hide the truth about farming. They keep the farms and slaughterhouses in places that most people never visit; they execute huge marketing campaigns in an effort to make animal production look like a happy, nice, benign institution.

  Moby

  Powerful, Nice, People

  VegNews Interview, www.vegnews.com. December 1, 2008.

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• Love is at once more animal than friendship and more divine.

  George Santayana

  Love Is, Divine

  George Santayana (2015). “The Life of Reason: Human Understanding”, p.108, 谷月社

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• I never eat meat as I think it is wrong to deprive animals of their life when they are so difficult to chew anyway.

  Leonora Carrington

  Thinking, Meat, Difficult

  " Leonora Carrington once served her guests a hair omelette. My kind of woman" by Sam Leith, www.theguardian.com. June 5, 2011.

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• Eloquent testimony to the recovery powers of wild animals frequently becomes apparent from the study of skeletons housed in museums.

  Louis Leakey

  Recovery, Skeletons, Museums

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• Far too often animals are put to sleep when they could be saved through proper care and nursing.

  Louis Leakey

  Sleep, Nursing, Care

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• A large animal needs a large area. If you protect that area, you're also protecting thousands of other plants and animals. You're saving all these species that future generations will want - you're saving the world for your children and your children's children. . . . The destruction of species is final. If you lose a species, you lose the genes, you lose all the potential drugs and potential foods that could be useful to the next generations. The ecosystems will not function as they have.

  George Schaller

  Children, Ecosystems, Drug

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• My father was not a political animal.

  Mickey Kaus

  Father, Political, Political Animals

  RealClearPolitics Interview, www.realclearpolitics.com. March 12, 2010.

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• I'm a vegan, but you can be really unhealthy as a vegan, too. Vegan just means that you don't use animal products, so you don't wear leather, you don't wear wool, and you don't eat animal products. But you can eat french fries and stuff like that all day long.

  Emily Deschanel

  Mean, Long, Stuff

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There's actually a lot of evidence in primates and other animals that they return favors.

  Frans de Waal

  Inspirational, Motivational, Favors

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• It is not only visitors to the zoo who are fascinated but uneasy in the presence of chimpanzees; the same is true of scientists. The more they learn about these great apes, the deeper our identity crisis seems to become. The resemblance between humans and chimpanzees is not only external. If we look straight and deep into a chimpanzee’s eyes, an intelligent, self-assured personality looks back at us. If they are animals, what must we be?

  Frans de Waal

  Zoos, Eye, Intelligent

  Frans de Waal (2007). “Chimpanzee Politics: Power and Sex Among Apes”, p.3, JHU Press

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• While self-interest arising from the enjoyment of meat eating is obviously one reason for its entrenchment, and inertia another, a process of language usage engulfs discussions about meat by constructing the discourse in such a way that these issues need never be addressed. Language distances us from the reality of meat eating, thus reinforcing the symbolic meaning of meat eating, a symbolic meaning that is intrinsically patriarchal and male-oriented. Meat becomes a symbol for what is not seen but is always there--patriarchal control of animals and of language.

  Carol J. Adams

  Distance, Reality, Meat Eating

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• Through luminous and erudite readings of the texts, Hasana Sharp shows us how profound and radical is Spinoza's conception of nature and his claim that humans always remain part of nature, acting solely according to the same rules. She demonstrates the political consequences of adopting this perspective through a provocative intervention in contemporary feminist theory, while along the way opening promising avenues for future work in a variety of other fields, such as animal studies and ecology. This is a challenging and important book.

  Michael Hardt

  Book, Reading, Profound

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• Many things that human words have upset are set at rest again by the
  silence of animals. Animals move through the world like a caravan of
  silence. A whole world, that of nature and that of animals, is filled
  with silence. Nature and animals seem like protuberances of silence.
  The silence of animals and the silence of nature would not be so great
  and noble if it were merely a failure of language to materialize.
  Silence has been entrusted to the animals and to nature as something
  created for its own sake.

  Max Picard

  Moving, Silence, Upset

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• The female, not the male, determines all the conditions of the animal family. Where the female can derive no benefit from association with the male, no such association takes place.

  Robert Briffault

  Males, Female, Benefits

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• Human identity is fundamentally an illusion; it’s an evolutionary overhang which lets us function as coherent self-aware animals. But, on a deep level, we have no real evidence that when we wake up we’re the same person who went to sleep.

  Sarah Newton

  Real, Sleep, Self

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• Some people are little more than herd animals, flocking together whenever the world becomes uncomfortable … I am not one of those people. If I had a motto, it would probably be Herd thither, me hither.

  Erik Naggum

  People, Together, World

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• Scientific physiology has the task of determining the functions of the animal body and deriving them as a necessary consequence from its elementary conditions.

  Carl Ludwig

  Tasks, Body, Function

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