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“The utilitarian-inflected discourse on animal "suffering" is the wrong point of emphasis. We need to talk instead about the fundamental causes of that suffering: human domination, exploitation, and mass killing of nonhuman animals. The problem isn't "suffering"; it's us.”

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“Every significant philosopher of the last 2500 years has claimed that only humans are free, only humans have an ontological capacity for freedom. That is a lie. The condition for the possibility of freedom is merely the condition for the possibility of unfreedom.”

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“The reason that we treat other animals as our slaves and as commodities isn't because they have this ontologically-rooted inferiority, it's that we see them as inferiors 'because' we find it useful to exploit them, and to harm them.”

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“We may be small, and we may be young, but we will shake the world for our beliefs.”

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“We have very little faith in the Lord, very little trust. If we trusted the Lord as much as we trust a friend when we ask him to do something for us, neither we as individuals nor our whole country would suffer so much.”

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“Let's all agree to stop using words like "pups," "kits," "chicks," "calves," etc., when referring to the young of other species. They are children. To use any other term is to reinforce the ideology of "otherness" that allows us to go on killing nonhuman animals with impunity.”

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“All human culture is narcissistic: being based in the violent negation and exclusion of all other forms of animal life, it collapses into toxic self-love. It thus inevitably destroys its own object, too, i.e. itself, because genuine love requires an Other.”

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“What does it mean to be human, when we've organized our whole identity, our whole economy, around harming our fellow creatures?”

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“Don’t do that!” he told me firmly. “Don’t apologise for things you haven’t done. At least do something worthy of apology first.”

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“Darling, you’re something more. I don’t know what happened, but I like spending time with you. I enjoy silence and stillness at your side. Beside you, I don’t feel the need to be constantly moving or mentally occupied. You are enough, and you’re also so much more.”

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“Don’t allow undeserved guilt to take the power you reclaimed. It has never and will never be your fault. Permit yourself to have the future you deserve,” Carter told me firmly. “Broken does not mean worthless.”

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