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“The beauty of the animal form is in exact proportion to the amount of moral and intellectual virtue expressed by it.”

Form Animal Beauty Moral Virtue Amount Intellectual Proportion

Book:Of ideas of beauty

Source: Of ideas of beauty

“In a Society in which there is no law, and in theory no compulsion, the only arbiter of behaviour is public opinion. But public opinion, because of the tremendous urge to conformity in gregarious animals, is less tolerant than any system of law. When human beings are governed by "thou shalt not", the individual can practise a certain amount of eccentricity: when they are supposedly governed by "love" or "reason", he is under continuous pressure to make him behave and think in exactly the same way as everyone else.”

Source: All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays

“There are many other (besides testosterone) behaviour-eliciting hormones fundamental for humen well-being, including estrogen and progesterone in females. The fact that complex behavioural patterns can be triggered by a tiny concentration of moleculas coursing through the bloodstream, and that different animals of the same species generate different amounts of these hormones, is something worth thinking about when it's time to judge such matters as free will, individual responsibility, and law and order.”

“The human animal, like others, is adapted to a certain amount of struggle for life [and] the mere absence of effort from his life removes an essential ingredient of happiness. [. . .] He forgets that to be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.”

Want Humans Certain Forget Animal Effort Struggle Amount Essentials Mere Absence Remove Ingredients Indispensable Adapted Human Animal

Book:The Conquest of Happiness

Source: The Conquest of Happiness

“The total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation. During the minute that it takes me to compose this sentence, thousands of animals are being eaten alive, many others are running for their lives, whimpering with fear, others are slowly being devoured from within by rasping parasites, thousands of all species are dying of starvation, thirst, and disease. The universe that we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but pitiless indifference.”

“And somehow mother nature manages to create this incredible biosphere, to create this incredibly rich environment of animals and plants with this amazingly small amount of data.”

Mother Animal Rich Environment Amount Plant Incredibles Manage Data Mother Nature Biodiversity Small Amounts Biosphere

Author:Freeman Dyson

“The survey of more than 100 waterways downstream from treatment plants and animal feedlots in 30 states found minute amounts of dozens of antibiotics, hormones, pain relievers, cough suppressants, disinfectants and other products. It is not known whether they are harmful to plants, animals or people. The findings were released yesterday on the Web site of the United States Geological Survey, which conducted the research, and in an online journal, Environmental Science and Technology.”

“It is in the nature of cats to do a certain amount of unescorted roaming.”

Certain Humanity Animal Amount Cat Roaming

Author:Adlai Stevenson I

“Eating a piece of meat, at its most efficient, we could say is like throwing away six times that amount of food every time you eat it because you're recycling all those calories through it. I know a lot of people who came to this issue not through animal welfare but through wastefulness.”

People Knows Animal Issues Pieces Amount Six Eating Welfare Meat Throwing Efficient Calories Animal Welfare Recycling Throwing Away Wastefulness

Author:Jonathan Safran Foer