"I'm very touched on a deep level by cruelty to animals."
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"I have always felt that the way we treat animals is a pretty good indicator of the compassion we are capable of for the human race."
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"When the common good of a society is regarded as something apart from and superior to the individual good of its members, it means that the good of some men takes precedence over the good of others, with those others consigned to the status of sacrificial animals."
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"When man learns to understand and control his own behavior as well as he is learning to understand and control the behavior of crop plants and domestic animals, he may be justified in believing that he has become civilized."
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"The Animals of the planet are in desperate peril and they are fully aware of this. No less than human beings are doing in all parts of the world, they are seeking sanctuary."
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"Biology will relate every human gene to the genes of other animals and bacteria, to this great chain of being."
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"Like a wild animal, the truth is too powerful to remain caged."
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"We don't murder, we kill.... You don't murder animals, you kill them."
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"A cow is a very good animal in the field; but we turn her out of a garden."
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"Once you begin to take yourself seriously as a leader or as a follower, as a modern or as a conservative, then you become a self-conscious, biting, and scratching little animal whose work is not of the slightest value or importance to anybody."
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"As far as I can recall, the initial shiver of inspiration [for Lolita] was somehow prompted by a newspaper story about an ape in the Jardin des Plantes, who, after months of coaxing by a scientist, produced the first drawing ever charcoaled by an animal: this sketch showed the bars of the poor creature's cage."
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"Man is an imitative animal. This quality is the germ of all education in him. From his cradle to his grave he is learning to do what he sees others do."
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"Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion."
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"People with leverage have dominance over people with less leverage. In other words, just as humans gained advantages over animals by creating leveraged tools, similarly, humans who use these tools of leverage have more power over humans that do not. Saying it more simply, 'leverage is power'."
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"It is remarkable, in cats, that the outer life they reveal to their masters is one of perpetual boredom."
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"In all the round world there is no meat. There used to be. But now we cannot stand the thought of slaughterhouses."
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"If a man can control his body and mind and thereby refrains from eating animal flesh and wearing animal products, I say he will really be liberated."
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"When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble."
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"So there you have it: Nature is a rotten mess. But that's only the beginning. If you take your eyes off it for one second, it will kill you. Thorns, insects, fungus, worms, birds, reptiles, wild animals, raging rivers, bottomless ravines, dry deserts, snow, quicksand, tumbleweeds, sap, and mud. Rot, poison and death. That's Nature.It's a wonder you even step outside of your cabin, I said.My bravery exceeds my good sense, he said."
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"Man is the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid."
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