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“It was given out that the animals there practised cannibalism, tortured one another with red-hot horseshoes, and had their females in common. This was what came of rebelling against the laws of Nature, Frederick and Pilkington said.”

Said Law Given Animal Common Red Female Hot Laws Of Nature Cannibalism Red Hot Horseshoes

Book:Animal Farm

Source: Animal Farm

“O God, enlarge within us the sense of fellowship with all living things, even our brothers, the animals, to whom Thou gavest the earth as their home in common with us. We must remember with shame that in the past we have exercised the high dominion of man with ruthless cruelty so that the voice of the earth, which should have gone up to thee in song, has been a groan of pain. May we realize that they live, not for us alone, but for themselves and for Thee and that they love the sweetness of life.”

“WHATEVER Life may really be, it is to us an abstraction: for the word is a generalised term to signify that which is common to all animals and plants, and which is not directly operative in the inorganic world.”

World May Term Animal Common Plant Abstraction

Author:Bill Vaughan

“We can now determine, easily and relatively cheaply, the detailed chemical architecture of genes ; and we can trace the products of these genes ( enzymes and proteins ) as they influence the course of embryology . In so doing we have made the astounding discovery that all complex animal phyla - arthropods and vertebrates in particular - have retained, despite their half-billion years of evolutionary independence, an extensive set of common genetic blueprints for building bodies.”

Source: Leonardo's Mountain Of Clams

“Even as a child I was fascinated by death, not in a spiritual sense, but in an aesthetic one. A hamster or guinea pig would pass away, and, after burying the body, I'd dig it back up: over and over, until all that remained was a shoddy pelt. It earned me a certain reputation, especially when I moved on to other people's pets. "Igor," they called me. "Wicked, spooky." But I think my interest was actually fairly common, at least among adolescent boys. At that age, death is something that happens only to animals and grandparents, and studying it is like a science project.”

“It is common talk that every individual is entitled to economic security. The only animals and birds I know that have economic security are those that have been domesticated--and the economic security they have is controlled by the barbed-wire fence, the butcher's knife and the desire of others. They are milked, skinned, egged or eaten up by their protectors.”

Knows Has Beens Desire Individual Animal Common Economic Security Bird Controlled Knives Entitled Fence Wire Protector Butchers Barbed Wire Economic Security

Author:Ray Lyman Wilbur

“Zoologists have reckoned there are up to at least 750 species of animal that have been observed exhibiting same-sex behaviour, or gender role transformation (which is very common in a wide range of fauna). There is only one species on earth, however, which has exhibited homophobia or transphobia. And that is the species homo sapiens sapiens. Us. So let's not allow the foolish, ignorant or bigoted ever to use words like "natural."”

Has Beens Use Earth Sex Natural Animal Common Roles Transformation Species Gender Wide Foolish Ignorant Range Behaviour Homo Sapiens Homophobia Gender Roles Zoologist

Author:Stephen Fry

“There are three things that are the motives of choice and three that are the motives of avoidance; namely, the noble, the expedient, and the pleasant, and their opposites, the base, the harmful, and the painful. Now in respect of all these the good man is likely to go right and the bad to go wrong, but especially in respect of pleasure; for pleasure is common to man with the lower animals, and also it is a concomitant of all the objects of choice, since both the noble and the expedient appear to us pleasant.”

Men Choices Three Pleasure Animal Common Objects Opposites Painful Noble Motive Pleasant Good Man Three Things Avoidance

Author:Aristotle

“Christ has something in common with all creatures. With the stone he shares existence, with the plants he shares life, with the animals he shares sensation, and with the angels he shares intelligence. Thus all things are transformed in Christ since in the fullness of his nature he embraces some part of every creature.”

Christ Animal Common Existence Share Creatures Angel All Things Stones Embrace Plant Sensations Transformed Fullness

Author:Bonaventure

“Let us investigate more closely this property common to animal and plant, this power of producing its likeness, this chain of successive existences of individuals, which constitutes the real existence of the species.”

Real Individual Animal Common Existence Property Plant Species Chains

Author:Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

“I think human self-hatred may be the great untold story of the millennium. It's the common thread linking deep ecology and animal rights, the love and money we lavish on pets, the uneasy longing for extraterrestrials to be meddling with us.”

“She had always known that all lives are in common, rejoicing in her kinship to the fish in the tanks of her laboratories, seeking the experience of existences outside the human boundary.”

Humans Animal Common Existence Known Fishes Seeking Boundaries Rejoice Laboratory Tanks Kinship

Book:The Dispossessed

Source: The Dispossessed

“We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and avoiding pain.”

Action Pain Life Is Pleasure Animal Common Class Concerned Seeking Beast Avoiding Animal Life Avoiding Pain Bodily Functions Bodily Pain

Author:Saint Augustine

“Therefore the solid body of the earth is reasonably considered as being the largest relative to those moving against it and as remaining unmoved in any direction by the force of the very small weights, and as it were absorbing their fall. And if it had some one common movement, the same as that of the other weights, it would clearly leave them all behind because of its much greater magnitude. And the animals and other weights would be left hanging in the air, and the earth would very quickly fallout of the heavens. Merely to conceive such things makes them appear ridiculous.”

Ifs Body Would Be Earth Moving Science Fall Left Force Heaven Animal Common Behinds Greater Air Movement Weight Ridiculous Relative Gravity Magnitude Absorbing Fallouts Left Hanging

Author:Ptolemy

“[To Aquinas] the senses are what we have in common with dumb animals. ... Our better part [is] the mind ... and [its] intellectual contemplation.”

Mind Animal Common Intellectual Senses Dumb Contemplation

Author:Anthony John Patrick Kenny

“I shall borrow two words used for a slightly different purpose by the great demographer Alfred Lotka to distinguish between the two systems of heredity enjoyed by man: endosomatic or internal heredity for the ordinary or genetical heredity we have in common with animals; and exosomatic or external heredity for the non-genetic heredity that is peculiarly our own - the heredity that is mediated through tradition, by which I mean the transfer of information through non-genetic channels from one generation to the next.”

Men Mean Two Different Used Purpose Next Animal Common Generations Information Ordinary Tradition Enjoyed Internals Transfers Heredity

Book:The Threat and the Glory: Reflections on Science and Scientists

Source: The Threat and the Glory: Reflections on Science and Scientists

“Although homosexual behavior is very common in the animal world, it seems to be very uncommon that individual animals have a long-lasting predisposition to engage in such behavior to the exclusion of heterosexual activities. Thus, a homosexual orientation, if one can speak of such thing in animals, seems to be a rarity.”

Ifs World Long Seems Individual Speak Animal Common Activity Behavior Lasting Homosexual Orientation Uncommon Exclusion Animal World Rarity Long Lasting

Book:Queer Science: The Use and Abuse of Research Into Homosexuality

Source: Queer Science: The Use and Abuse of Research Into Homosexuality

“When the common good of a society is regarded as something apart from and superior to the individual good of its members, it means that the good of some men takes precedence over the good of others, with those others consigned to the status of sacrificial animals.”

Men Mean Individual Animal Common Members Good Superiors Common Good Precedence

Book:Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal

Source: Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal

“What is a totem? It is as a rule an animal (whether edible and harmless or dangerous and feared) and more rarely a plant or a natural phenomenon (such as rain or water), which stands in a peculiar relation to the whole clan. In the first place, the totem is the common ancestor of the clan; at the same time it is their guardian spirit and helper, which sends them oracles and, if dangerous to others, recognizes and spares its own children.”

Ifs Firsts Children Whole Spirit Water Natural Animal Common Dangerous Rain Relation Plant Phenomenon Peculiar Ancestor Spares Guardian Clans Helpers Oracles Totems Natural Phenomena

Book:Totem and Taboo

Source: Totem and Taboo

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