#peri

Humans — who enslave, castrate, experiment on, and fillet other animals — have had an understandable penchant for pretending animals do not feel pain. A sharp distinction between humans and 'animals' is essential if we are to bend them to our will, make them work for us, wear them, eat them — without any disquieting tinges of guilt or regret. It is unseemly of us, who often behave so unfeelingly toward other animals, to contend that only humans can suffer. The behavior of other animals renders such pretensions specious. They are just too much like us. ↗

— Carl Sagan

#behavior #compassion #suffer #vegetarian #experience

Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#poetry #poets #experience

Today, we have a trade regime which has led to the largest trade deficits this country has ever experienced. ↗

— Xavier Becerra

#deficits #ever #experienced #largest #led

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#experience #fools #keeps #learn #other

People of small caliber are always carping. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or prowess or good breeding. ↗

— Van Wyck Brooks

#bent #breeding #caliber #good #good breeding

If you want plenty of experience in dealing with difficult people, then have kids. ↗

— Bo Bennett

#difficult #difficult people #experience #kids #people

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#goes #instrument #learning #life #like

Learn to reverence night and to put away the vulgar fear of it, for, with the banishment of night from the experience of man, there vanishes as well a religious emotion, a poetic mood, which gives depth to the adventure of humanity. ↗

— Henry Beston

#away #banishment #depth #emotion #experience

Sometimes the only way to ever find yourself is to get completely lost. ↗

— Kellie Elmore

#life-and-living #life-experience #life-lessons #motivational-quotes #experience

.... most people come to know only one corner of their room, one spot near the window, one narrow strip on which they keep walking back and forth. ↗

— Rainer Maria Rilke

#security #experience