Mark Twain Quotes, Pain Quotes, Animal Quotes

I am not interested to know whether vivisection produces results that are profitable to the human race or doesn't...The pain which it inflicts upon unconsenting animals is the basis of my enmity toward it, and it is to me sufficient justification of the enmity without looking further.

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Even if animal experimentation was proved to be of value, it would be morally wrong.

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Man is neither mere intellect not the gross animal body, nor the heart or soul alone.

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The glory of man is that he is a thinking being. It is the nature of man to think and therein he differs from animals

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When confronted by a hungry wolf, it is unwise to goad the beast, as Cato would have us do. But it is equally unwise to imagine the snarling animal a friend and offer your hand, as Pompey does." "Perhaps you would have us climb a tree!

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Man is the Reasoning Animal. Such is the claim. I think it is open to dispute.

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As a toy fruit or a toy elephant reminds one of the real fruit and the living animal, so do the images that are worshipped remind one of the God who is formless and eternal.

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We are fastened to a dying animal.

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Men always do leave off really thinking, when the last bit of wild animal dies in them.

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We are the living graves of murdered beasts.

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Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Animal Quotes , Vegetarian Diet Quotes

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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Tags : H. G. Wells Quotes , Animal Quotes , Vegetarianism Quotes

I usually say the aim of life is to be happy. Our existence is based on hope. Our life is rooted in the opportunity to be happy, not necessarily wealthy, but happy within our own minds. If we only indulge in sensory pleasure, we'll be little different from animals. In fact, we have this marvellous brain and intelligence; we must learn to use it.

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Tags : Dalai Lama Quotes , Happy Quotes , Animal Quotes

It is true that the reluctance to abstain from animal food, in those who have been long accustomed to its stimulus, is so great in some persons of weak minds, as to be scarcely overcome; but this is far from bringing any argument in its favour

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Tags : Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes , Animal Quotes , Long Quotes

To seek solitude like a wild animal. That is my only ambition.

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The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creatures that cannot.

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What strength belongs to every plant and animal in nature. The tree or the brook has no duplicity, no pretentiousness, no show. It is, with all its might and main, what it is, and makes one and the same impression and effect at all times. All the thoughts of a turtle are turtle's, and of a rabbit, rabbit's. But a man is broken and dissipated by the giddiness of his will; he does not throw himself into his judgments; his genius leads him one way but 't is likely his trade or politics in quite another.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Men Quotes , Animal Quotes

I cannot see the short, white curls Upon the forehead of an Ox, But what I see them dripping with That poor thing's blood, and hear the ax; When I see calves and lambs, I see Them led to death; I see no bird Or rabbit cross the open field But what a sudden shot is heard; A shout that tells me men aim true, For death or wound, doth chill me through.

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Tags : W. H. Davies Quotes , Men Quotes , Animal Quotes

There never was any party, faction, sect, or cabal whatsoever, in which the most ignorant were not the most violent; for a bee is not a busier animal than a blockhead.

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We must recognise the essential underlaying savagery in the animal called man, and return to older and sounder principles of national life and defense. We must realise that man's nature will remain the same so long as he remains man; that civilisation is but a slight coverlet beneath which the dominant beast sleeps lightly and ever ready to awake.

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Tags : H. P. Lovecraft Quotes , Sleep Quotes , Animal Quotes

Though our conduct seems so very different from that of the higher animals, the primary instincts are much alike in them and in us.

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Tags : Albert Einstein Quotes , Animal Quotes , Different Quotes