“I'm very concerned with what's going on the news, but I would not call myself a political animal, per se. I pay more attention during election years, or if I see some topic or issue that I care about. But I would never call myself a political animal or political junkie.” IfsYearsCarePoliticalAnimalPayAttentionIssuesNewsConcernedElectionI CareTopicsJunkieElection YearsPolitical Animals Author:Keegan-Michael Key
“Man is an evasive beast, given to cultivating strange notions about himself. He is humiliated by his simian ancestry, and tries to deny his animal nature, to persuade himself that he is not limited by its weaknesses nor concerned in its fate. And this impulse may be harmless, when it is genuine. But what are we to say when we see the formulas of heroic self-deception made use of by unheroic self-indulgence?” MenTryingMayMadeSelfUseGivenAnimalFateStrangeWeaknessConcernedNotionDenyGenuineDeceptionImpulseBeastFormulasHeroicIndulgenceSelf DeceptionAncestryHumiliatedCultivatingSelf Indulgence Author:Upton Sinclair
“As far as fidelity is concerned, there is no animal in the world as treacherous as man.” MenWorldAnimalConcernedFidelityTreacherous Author:Michel de Montaigne
“Sentimentalising is anathema, as far as I am concerned. It leads you into ethical problems about violence and killing and eating meat. The whole world becomes topsy-survy if you impose moralities that were evolved within human society on what a blowfly or what a parasite does... there are lots of emotions you can deduce from an animal's behaviour that are correct, but when you start saying it's feeling guilty or thinking or a loved one or mourning, you must be very careful of those feelings.” IfsThinkingWorldHumansDoeWholeFeelingsProblemAnimalEmotionViolenceTelevisionMoralityEatingConcernedKillingCarefulWhole WorldGuiltyMeatMourningEthicalLoved OnesBehaviourHuman SocietyParasitesEating MeatFeeling GuiltyAnathema Author:David Attenborough
“I realize that at a certain point if we're going to change our food system, it's going to be the next generation that's going to be critical. This generation is very interested in food issues, very concerned about things like animal welfare and the impact of the food system on the environment.” IfsCertainNextRealizingAnimalIssuesEnvironmentGenerationsConcernedImpactCriticalWelfareNext GenerationAnimal WelfareThis Generation Author:Michael Pollan
“I became a vegetarian out of compassion for animals and to live as healthy as possible. I realized soon after that I was truly concerned with nonviolent consumption and my own health, a vegan diet was the best decision.” My OwnDecisionAnimalCompassionHealthyConcernedI RealizedDietsVegetarianVeganConsumptionVegetarianismAnimal CompassionVegan Diet Author:Davey Havok
“What strikes me most of all in Christian culture, which is supposed to be concerned with the rights of the weakest, is the lack of regard toward animals. Maybe because they're thought to be soulless.” ChristianCultureAnimalRightsConcernedRegardStrikesSupposed To BeSoulless Author:Dacia Maraini
“We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and avoiding pain.” ActionPainLife IsPleasureAnimalCommonClassConcernedSeekingBeastAvoidingAnimal LifeAvoiding PainBodily FunctionsBodily Pain Author:Saint Augustine
“Gargoyles were the complement to saints; Leonardo's caricatures were complementary to his untiring search for ideal beauty. And gargoyles were the expression of all the passions, the animal forces, the Caliban gruntings and groanings which are left in human nature when the divine has been poured away. Leonardo was less concerned than his Gothic predecessors with the ethereal parts of our nature, and so his caricatures, in their expression of passionate energy, merge imperceptibly into the heroic.” HumansHas BeensPassionEnergyLeftForceAnimalHuman NatureDivineExpressionConcernedIdealsSaintPassionateHeroicGothicPredecessorsCaricaturesComplementEtherealLeonardoComplementaryGroaningGargoylesCaliban Author:Kenneth Clark
“Shelters, conservationists, those concerned about unnecessary cruelty toward the animals we eat, and people working against species extinction fight to preserve the true riches of our planet, our real inheritance. These are big, critical goals.” PeopleRealBigsFightingGoalAnimalPlanetsConcernedSpeciesCriticalRichesCrueltyPreservesShelterUnnecessaryExtinctionInheritanceOur PlanetTrue RichesSpecies Extinction Author:April Gornik