Cows Quotes - Page 26

• Politicians regard the public as a cow to be milked

  Elbert Hubbard

  Politician, Regard

  Elbert Hubbard (1928). “Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great ...”

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• I am, in fact, the complete anti-Messiah, and detest converts almost as much as I detest missionaries. My writings, such as they are, have had only one purpose: to attain for H. L. Mencken that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk.

  H. L. Mencken

  Writing, Giving, Feelings

  "For the Defense Written for the Associated Press, for use in my obituary" by H. L. Mencken, November 20, 1940.

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• There have always existed three ways of keeping the people loving and loyal. One is to leave them alone, to trust them and not to interfere. This plan, however, has very seldom been
  practised, because the politicians regard the public as a cow to be milked, and something must be done to make it stand quiet.

  Elbert Hubbard

  People, Three, Done

  Elbert Hubbard (1901). “Little Journeys to the Homes Of...: Great musicians”

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• We are shut up in school and college recitation rooms for ten to fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing. We cannot use our hands, or our legs, or our eyes, or our arms. We do not know an edible root in the woods. We cannot tell our course by the stars, nor the hour of day by the sun. It is well if we can swim and skate. We are afraid of a horse or a cow, of a dog, of a cat, of a spider. Far better was the Roman rule to teach a boy nothing that he could not learn standing.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Dog, Horse, Stars

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt McLaughlin (2010). “The Laws of Nature: Excerpts from the Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.34, North Atlantic Books

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• I didn't like dancing in Canada. The managers of the clubs treated me as less than a cow. And Canadians don't tip so you have to ask for more base pay.

  Chasey Lain

  Dancing, Clubs, Pay

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

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• Man is a thief, an impudent thief! He steals honey from bees, eggs from chickens, milk from cows and life from the God!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Life, Men, Eggs

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• Our freedom is our sacred cow; no one should touch it! We must be very pious in this holy matter.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Freedom, Sacred, Matter

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• Nowhere in the world would you find such skeletons of cows and bullocks as you do in our cow-worshipping India.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Skeletons, India, World

  Mahatma Gandhi (1978). “Hindu Dharma”, p.123, Orient Paperbacks

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• If I were over full of pity for the cow, I should sacrifice my life to save her but not take my brother's.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Life, Brother, Sacrifice

  Mahatma Gandhi (2010). “Hind Swaraj”, p.41, Rajpal & Sons

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• Cow protection to me is one of the most wonderful phenomena in the human evolution.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Evolution, Wonderful, Protection

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• What?s wrong about eating cows? What do you think god made them for? Their big, their stupid, their delicious. You want more reasons? I never met an animal more prepared to die than a cow. Next time you go to the farm look at a cow in the eyes, it is begging you for a bullet.

  Paul Rodriguez

  Stupid, Eye, Thinking

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• The best way to control cow and sheep is to give them a big grazing field.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Sheep, Giving, Meditation

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• We are the bird's eggs. Bird's eggs, flowers, butterflies, rabbits, cows, sheep, we are caterpillars; we are leaves of ivy and springs of wildflower. We are women. We rise from the wave. We are gazelle and doe, elephant and whale, lilies and roses and peach, we are air, we are flame, we are oyster and pearl, we are girls. We are woman and nature. And he says he cannot hear us speak. But we hear.

  Susan Griffin

  Girl, Spring, Flower

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• Each day I also try to draw. It's a similar expulsion of buildup: Milking the cows every morning. Checking the chickens' eggs. Why should that be limited to a certain medium?

  Brian Chippendale

  Morning, Eggs, Trying

  Interview with Pitchfork, pitchfork.com. December 5, 2006.

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• We are beginning to shift into life code. And in the process of shifting into life code, every life form on this planet is coded in a double helix with a sugar phosphate backbone. And that codes whether you become a bacteria, an orange, a lemon, a Lemur, a Cow, a sheep, a human being, a politician, any one of these things is all coded in this four-letter code.

  Juan Enriquez

  Orange, Sheep, Bacteria

  Source: bigthink.com

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• If every man works at that for which nature fitted him, the cows will be well tended.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Men, Wells, Every Man

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• Science is not a sacred cow. Science is a horse. Don’t worship it. Feed it.
  [Addressing a group of prospective contributors to an Israeli scientific research program]

  Abba Eban

  Horse, Groups, Research

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• For if I should not believe all that is written by Historians, of the glorious acts of Alexander, or Caesar; I do not think the Ghost of Alexander, or Caesar, had any just cause to be offended; or any body else, but the Historian. If Livy say the Gods made once a Cow speak, and we believe it not; we distrust not God therein, but Livy. So that it is evident, that whatsoever we believe, upon no other reason, then what is drawn from authority of men only, and their writings; whether they be sent from God or not, is Faith in men only.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Faith, Believe, Writing

  Thomas Hobbes, Richard Tuck (1996). “Hobbes: Leviathan: Revised Student Edition”, p.49, Cambridge University Press

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• The British press hate a winner who's British. They don't like any British man to have balls as big as a cow's like I have.

  Nigel Benn

  Hate, Men, Balls

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• Never mind failures; they are quite natural, they are the beauty of life, these failures. What would life be without them? It would not be worth having if it were not for struggles. Where would be the poetry of life? Never mind the struggles, the mistakes. I never heard a cow tell a lie, but it is only a cow-never a man. So never mind these failures, these little backslidings; hold the ideal a thousand times, and if you fail a thousand times, make the attempt once more.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Mistake, Lying, Struggle

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.606, Manonmani Publishers

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• A crowd of grade-three thinkers, all shouting the same thing, all warming their hands at the fire of their own prejudices, will not thank you for pointing out the contradictions in their beliefs. Man is a gregarious animal, and enjoys agreement as cows will graze all the same way on the side of a hill.

  William Golding

  Animal, Men, Fire

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• My religion teaches me that I should, by my personal conduct, instill into the minds of those who might hold different views the conviction that cow killing is a sin.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Views, Mind, Religion

  Mahatma Gandhi (1949). “Communal Unity”

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• We cry for cow protection in the name of religion, but we refuse protection to the human cow in the shape of the girl-widow.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Girl, Names, Religion

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

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• When I see a cow, it is not an animal to eat, it is a poem of pity for me and I worship it and I shall defend its worship against the whole world.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Animal, World, Worship

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

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• The cow to me is a sermon on pity.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Pity, Sermons

  Mahatma Gandhi, U. R. Rao (1963). “The Way to Communal Harmony”, Ahmedabad, [India] : Navajivan Publishing House

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