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“Willpower is what separates us from the animals. It's the capacity to restrain our impulses, resist temptation - do what's right and good for us in the long run, not what we want to do right now. It's central, in fact, to civilisation.”

“In a civilized and cultivated country wild animals only continue to exist at all when preserved by sportsmen. the excellent people who protest against all hunting, and consider sportsmen as enemies of wild life, are ignorant of the fact that in reality the genuine sportsman is by all odds the most important factor in keeping the larger and more valuable wild creatures from total extermination.”

Source: The Deer Family

“In a civilized and cultivated country, wild animals only continue to exist at all when preserved by sportsmen.”

Country Animal Civilized Hunting Hunters Wild Animal Sportsman Hunting And Fishing

Book:The Deer Family

Source: The Deer Family

“Man and other civilized animals are the only creatures that ever become dirty.”

Men Animal Creatures Dirty Civilized Cleanliness

Book:The Wilderness Journeys

Source: The Wilderness Journeys

“One of the greatest myths of all time is that so-called civilized man is no longer an animal, and for that reason can strive to disarm himself and grow fat with false concepts.”

Men Reason Grows Animal Concepts Strive Myth Fats All Time Civilized

Author:William Powell

“Too much of the animal disfigures the civilized human being, too much culture makes a sick animal.”

Humans Culture Human Beings Animal Too Much Sick Civilized Memories Dreams Reflections

Author:Carl Jung

“Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all. The infant breaks his toy, bites his nurse's breast, strangles his canary long before he is able to reason; cruelty is stamped in animals, in whom, as I think I have said, Nature's laws are more emphatically to be read than in ourselves; cruelty exists amongst savages, so much nearer to Nature than civilized men are; absurd then to maintain cruelty is a consequence of depravity. . . . Cruelty is simply the energy in a man civilization has not yet altogether corrupted: therefore it is a virtue, not a vice.”

“I often pass a farm with cows grazing in the field and I think to myself how terrible it is that human beings grow other animals just to kill them and eat them. Most of us think of vegetarians as nuts and I'm not a vegetarian but I wouldn't be surprised if we came to a time in 50 or 100 years when civilized people everywhere refused to eat animals.”

People Ifs Thinking Years Humans Grows Human Beings Animal Fields Terrible Civilized Vegetarian Farms Nuts Cows Grazing

Author:Andy Rooney