#tie

I reject animal welfare reform and single-issue campaigns because they are not only inconsistent with the claims of justice that we should be making if we really believe that animal exploitation is wrong, but because these approaches cannot work as a practical matter. Animals are property and it costs money to protect their interests; therefore, the level of protection accorded to animal interests will always be low and animals will, under the best of circumstances, still be treated in ways that would constitute torture if applied to humans. By endorsing welfare reforms that supposedly make exploitation more “compassionate” or single-issue campaigns that falsely suggest that there is a coherent moral distinction between meat and dairy or between fur and wool or between steak and foie gras, we betray the principle of justice that says that all sentient beings are equal for purposes of not being used exclusively as human resources. And, on a practical level, we do nothing more than make people feel better about animal exploitation. ↗

— Gary L. Francione

#abolitionist #ahimsa #animals #education #exploitation

The picture is all he feels about it, all he thinks worth preserving of it, all he invests it with. If all the qualities which a painter took from the model for his picture were really taken, no person could be painted twice. ↗

— Lucian Freud

#could #feels #his #invests #model

Mr. Chairman, the price for continuing this war is too high, not only in budgetary terms, but in American lives, Iraqi civilian casualties blamed on America and in the steady increase in the terrorist ranks that this war is provoking around the globe. ↗

— John Conyers

#american #american lives #around #blamed #budgetary

When it comes to civilian deaths, violent hostilities play no favorites. ↗

— John Conyers

#comes #deaths #favorites #hostilities #play

Good parties create a temporary youthfulness. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#create #good #parties #temporary #youthfulness

The late sixties and early seventies were kind of a breeding ground for exciting new sounds because easy listening and folk were kind of taking over the airwaves. I think it was a natural next step to take that blissful, easy-going sound and strangle the life out of it. ↗

— Alice Cooper

#because #breeding #early #easy #easy-going

Genuine beginnings begin within us, even when they are brought to our attention by external opportunities. ↗

— William Throsby Bridges

#begin #beginnings #brought #even #external

It was as though all my hostilities, anxieties, and conflicts were in one ball that was flying away into space, farther from me all the time, leaving me content with myself. ↗

— Bobby Darin

#away #ball #conflicts #content #farther

I had a number of very strong personalities in my family. My father was a concert flutist, the solo flute for Toscanini. ↗

— Francis Ford Coppola

#family #father #flute #had #i

You know, I was a kid when I went into 'Coronation Street' and I had an amazing time. I got some fantastic opportunities from Corrie and from 'Soapstar' and I'd never say they did anything other than help me. ↗

— Richard Fleeshman

#amazing time #anything #coronation #did #fantastic