"It is not in human nature for all men to tread the same path of development, as animals do of a single species."
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"Animals don't have a voice, so I think it is our job to give them one."
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"Man serves the interests of no creature except himself."
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"One day the world will look upon research upon animals as it now looks upon research on human beings."
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"As far as our noblest hardwood forests are concerned, the animals, especially squirrels and jays, are our greatest and almost only benefactors. It is to them that we owe this gift. It is not in vain that the squirrels live in or about every forest tree, or hollow log, and every wall and heap of stones."
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"Turn away from your animal kind, try to leave your body, just to live in your mind."
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"Perhaps no philosopher is more correct than the cynic. The happiness of the animal, that thorough cynic, is the living proof of cynicism."
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"We have to create more and more vegetarians, and help people to understand that it is not only the suffering of the animals (which is what made me vegetarian) but also the incredible harm to the environment, the tremendous amount of greenhouse gas created by the whole vast machinery of intensive animal farming."
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"As a child. I grew up on a small farm, so I did a lot of drawings of animals, chickens and people. At the bottom of every page, I'd put a strange scribble. I was emulating adult handwriting, though I didn't actually know how to write."
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"Nobody should be whipped. Remember that, once and for all. Neither man nor animal can be influenced by anything but suggestion."
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"Men! The only animal in the world to fear."
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"Clothes therefore, must be the insignia of the superiority of man over all other animals, for surely there could be no other reason for wearing the hideous things"
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"Animals don't hate, and we're supposed to be better than them."
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"Man may be defined as the animal that can say ''I,'' that can be aware of himself as a separate entity."
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"From the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of higher animals, directly follows."
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"The theoretical understanding of the world, which is the aim of philosophy, is not a matter of great practical importance to animals, or to savages, or even to most civilised men."
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"I-man say don't make jah body a graveyard for de dead animals."
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"The animals of the planet are in desperate peril... Without free animal life I believe we will lose the spiritual equivalent of oxygen."
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"You do not like to suffer yourself. How can you inflict suffering on others?"
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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."
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