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“Anyone who says that life matters less to an animal than it does to us has not held in his hands an animal fighting for its life. The whole of the being of the animal is thrown into that fight, without reserve. When you say that the fight lacks a dimension of intellectual or imaginative horror, I agree. It is not the mode of being animals to have an intellectual horror: their whole being is in the living flesh...I urge you to walk, flank to flank, beside the beast that is prodded down the chute to his executioner.”

Book:The Lives of Animals: The Lives of Animals [Princeton Classics]

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The Lives of Animals: The Lives of Animals [Princeton Classics]

This Princeton Classic volume delves into the profound and varied lives of animals, examining their behaviors, emotions, and interactions with their environments. The book offers a comprehensive look at animal life from a philosophical perspective, exploring themes of consciousness, consciousness, and the human-animal relationship. more

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J. M. Coetzee

J.M. Coetzee is a South African-born Australian novelist known for his profound psychological insights and critical exploration of South Africa's apartheid history. His works have won numerous literary awards, including the Nobel Prize in Literature. more

“I believe that pity is a law like justice, and that kindness is a duty like uprightness. That which is weak has a right to the kindness and pity of that which is strong. In the relations of man with the animals...there is a great ethic, scarcely perceived as yet, which will at length break through into the light, and which will be the corollary and the complement to humans ethics. Are there not here unsounded depths for the thinker? Is one to think oneself mad because one has the sentiment of universal pity in one's heart?”

“To me, a philosopher who says that the distinction between human and nonhuman depends on whether you have a white or a black skin, and a philosopher who says that the distinction between human and nonhuman depends on whether or not you know the difference between a subject and a predicate, are more alike than they are unlike.”

Knows Humans Black Differences White Animal Subjects Depends Ethics Skins Philosopher Distinction Pet Animal Ethics Black Skin

Book:Elizabeth Costello

Source: Elizabeth Costello

“It seems to me as I reviewed the literature that, with few exceptions, the more confident were the prescriptions about how to behave with ethics and integrity, the further removed was the author from the life and work of the everyday manager.”

Seems Literature Integrity Ethics Everyday Managers Behave Exception Prescriptions Ethics And Integrity

Author:Steve Kerr

“Integrity is not a character trait that one possesses more or less of but a sophisticated state of processing experience in the world one enters into in varying degrees. Integrating is a major developmental task at every stage of life.”

World States Character Stage Integrity Degrees Majors Ethics Tasks Traits Sophisticated Integrating Processing Stages Of Life Developmental Character Trait

Author:David A. Kolb

“The moral climate of any organization, larger than that of the individual, is created hour by hour through the multitude of choices and behaviors of its members.”

Choices Individual Hours Moral Members Behavior Ethics Organization Climate Multitudes

Author:Rushworth Kidder

“Many roads open pathways to authenticity. For some it is disciplined practice, for others revelation, for others service. Regardless of how we get in touch with authenticity or how authenticity gets in touch with us, the engagement is ongoing and forever challenging.”

Challenges Practice Forever Ethics Authenticity Revelations Engagement Ongoing Pathways

Author:Rob Terry

“I always made an awkward bow.”

Made Bows Awkward Farewell

Author:John Keats

“There's a lot of talk about self-esteem these days. It seems pretty basic to me. If you eat to feel proud of yourself, you've got to do things you can be proud of. Feelings follow actions.”

Ifs Feels Self Feelings Seems Action Self Esteem Proud Ethics Esteem These Days Be Proud Proud Of You Proud Of Yourself

Author:Oseola McCarty

“Whenever your life touches mine, you make me stronger of weaker... there is no escape... people drag others or lift others up.”

People Mines Ethics Stronger Lifts Drag

Author:Booker T. Washington

“Anything which causes trouble has special merit in their eyes.”

Eye Causes Trouble Special Ethics Merit Sisyphus Legal Ethics

Book:Literary and Educational Writings: Panegyricus and Philippum Austriaeducem. Moriae encomium. Dialogus Julius exclusus e coelis. Institutio principis christiani. Querela pacis

Source: Literary and Educational Writings: Panegyricus and Philippum Austriaeducem. Moriae encomium. Dialogus Julius exclusus e coelis. Institutio principis christiani. Querela pacis

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