“If we could talk to the animals, learn their languages, maybe take an animal degree.” IfsLanguageAnimalDegrees Author:Rex Harrison
“Aquatic animals suffer from the disadvantage that they cannot scream when in pain, so we find it hard to gauge the degree of their agony. If fish could scream, angling purely for sport would be outlawed without delay.” IfsHardWould BePainSufferingSportsAnimalSeaDegreesRiversFishesBoatLakesFishingScreamAgonyDelayDisadvantagesGaugesAngling Author:Desmond Morris
“There is increasing social concern about our use of nonhumans for experiments, food, clothing and entertainment. This concern about animals reflects both our own moral development as a civilization and our recognition that the differences between humans and animals are, for the most part, differences of degree and not of kind.” HumansKindUseSocialDifferencesAnimalMoralDevelopmentCivilizationDegreesConcernEntertainmentExperimentsRecognitionClothingsHumans And AnimalsMoral Development Author:Gary L. Francione
“So long as men are compassionate to such a degree that they cannot hear a fly struggling in a spider's web without emotion it can never be reasonably maintained that it is their natural impulse to wound and kill the dumb animals, or to butcher one another in what is called the field of honour.” MenLongNaturalAnimalEmotionStruggleFieldsDegreesWoundsDumbImpulseHonourCompassionateAnimal RightsSpidersButchers Author:John Newton
“The tendency to cruelty should be watched in children and if they incline to any such cruelty, they should be taught the contrary usage. For the custom of tormenting and killing other animals will, by degrees, harden their hearts even toward man. Children should from the beginning, be brought up in an abhorrence of killing or tormenting living beings.” IfsMenShouldHeartChildrenAnimalTaughtDegreesKillingContraryCrueltyTendenciesCustomsUsageInclineAbhorrenceKilling Others Author:John Locke
“If you have a culture based on hunting and fishing and all the animals are disappearing and the fish are sick, then you can't live traditionally. Then your treaty is being violated. Obviously there are degrees of choice in terms of that decision to fight.” IfsChoicesCultureFightingTermDecisionAnimalDegreesSickFishesDisappearFishingHuntingTreatiesHunting And Fishing Author:Avi Lewis
“Man, who preys both on the vegetable and animal species, is himself a prey to neither. He too possesses the reproductive principle far beyond the degree requisite for the bare continuance of his species. What becomes of the surplus of human life to which this principle is competent?” MenHumansAnimalPrinciplesDegreesSpeciesHuman LifeVegetablesPreyCompetentSurplusContinuance Book:1829-1836 Source: 1829-1836
“If... deceit is fundamental to animal communication, then there must be strong selection to spot deception and this ought, in turn, to select for a degree of self-deception, rendering some facts and motives unconscious so as not to betray - by the subtle signs of self-knowledge - the deception being practiced.' Thus, 'the conventional view that natural selection favors nervous systems which produce ever more accurate images of the world must be a very naive view of mental evolution.” IfsWorldSelfFactsTurnsStrongNaturalAnimalViewsProduceCommunicationOughtEvolutionDegreesFundamentalsFavorsNervousSpotsDeceptionMotiveUnconsciousSubtleDeceitBetrayAccurateConventionalSelf KnowledgeSelectionNaiveSelectSelf DeceptionNatural SelectionNervous SystemRendering Author:Robert Trivers