#sci

Human nature is the same now as when Adam hid from the presence of God; the consciousness of wrong makes us unwilling to meet those whom we have offended. ↗

— Matthew Simpson

#consciousness #god #hid #human #human nature

I never make a trip to the United States without visiting a supermarket. To me they are more fascinating than any fashion salon. ↗

— Wallis Simpson

#any #fascinating #fashion #i #make

The New England conscience doesn't keep you from doing what you shouldn't - it just keeps you from enjoying it. ↗

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

#doing #england #enjoying #just #keep

Animals, or at least those who are conscious and capable of suffering or enjoying their lives, are not things for us to use in whatever way we find convenient. ↗

— Peter Singer

#conscious #convenient #enjoying #find #least

It means that, in fact, it's - whether fascist is the right word I don't know - more of a plutocracy than anything resembling a democracy; it has become a nation controlled by a very small, very wealthy elite. ↗

— Peter Singer

#become #controlled #democracy #elite #fact

We recognize the chicken as another conscious being. It's different from us, but it has a life, and if something is really important for that chicken, if it would work hard to try to get it, and if we can give it without sacrificing something that's really important to us, then we should. ↗

— Peter Singer

#being #chicken #conscious #different #get

I was always fascinated with rock 'n' roll, or girls, or something like that when I was a kid. ↗

— Gary Sinise

#fascinated #i #kid #like #rock

I have taken this step because I want the discipline, the fire and the authority of the Church. I am hopelessly unworthy of it, but I hope to become worthy. ↗

— Edith Sitwell

#authority #because #become #church #discipline

I have a kind of standard explanation why, which goes like this: Science fiction is one way of making sense out of a senseless world. ↗

— John Sladek

#fiction #goes #i #kind #like

I have this personal affinity for the desert. I am fascinated by the desert. I love it. ↗

— Erika Slezak

#am #desert #fascinated #i #i am