#animal

They don't know how the world is shaped. And so they give it a shape, and try to make everything fit it. They separate the right from the left, the man from the woman, the plant from the animal, the sun from the moon. They only want to count to two. ↗

— Emma Bull

#count #everything #fit #give #how

It is through this mysterious power that we too have our being, and we therefore yield to our neighbors, even to our animal neighbors, the same right as ourselves to inhabit this vast land. ↗

— Sitting Bull

#being #even #inhabit #land #mysterious

It's not so much about killing an animal, it's being at peace and you don't have to worry about all the other things that go on. That's a couple of hours a week that you get to escape but it's nice to do that. ↗

— Brett Favre

#animal #being #couple #escape #get

I blame it on Walt Disney, where animals are given human qualities. People don't understand that a wild animal is not something that is nice to pat. It can seriously harm you. ↗

— James Cameron

#blame #disney #given #harm #human

The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world. ↗

— Willa Cather

#behind #cloak #down #due #edge

Poor animals! How jealously they guard their pathetic bodies…that which to us is merely an evening’s meal, but to them is life itself. ↗

— T. Casey Brennan

#food #gluttony #humor #life #value-of-life

I don't know if it's animalistic or what, but men become like peacocks with their feathers up when women are around. ↗

— Bradley Cooper

#around #become #feathers #i #know

If man limits himself to a satisfied animal existence, and asks from life only what such an existence can give, the higher values of life at once disappear. ↗

— Christopher Dawson

#asks #disappear #existence #give #higher

The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness and kindness, can be trained to do most things. ↗

— Jilly Cooper

#domestic #firmness #kindness #male #most

The rights paradigm, which, as I interpret it, morally requires the abolition of animal exploitation and requires veganism as a matter of fundamental justice, is radically different from the welfarist paradigm, which, in theory focuses on reducing suffering, and, in reality, focuses on tidying up animal exploitation at its economically inefficient edges. In science, those who subscribe to one paradigm are often unable to understand and engage those who subscribe to another paradigm precisely because the theoretical language that they use is not compatible. I think that the situation is similar in the context of the debate between animal rights and animal welfare. And that is why welfarists simply cannot understand or accept the slavery analogy. ↗

— Gary L. Francione

#abolitionist #ahimsa #animals #education #exploitation