“I had the best of both worlds when I was a kid. I'd spend a quiet week with my mum, then I'd go to my dad's property in the Adelaide Hills, where there were all these kids and animals running around.” WorldRunningKidsAnimalWeekDadQuietPropertyMy DadHillsMumBest Of Both WorldsAdelaide Author:Teresa Palmer
“Anybody who has ever owned a dog who barked when strangers came near its owner's property has experienced the essential continuity between animal territoriality and human property. Our domesticated cousins of the wolf know, instinctively, that property is no mere social convention or game, but a critically important evolved mechanism for the avoidance of violence. (This makes them smarter than a good many human political theorists.)” HumansPoliticalAnimalDogEssentialsPropertyStrangerOwnersGood ManSmarterCousinContinuityTheorists Author:Eric S. Raymond
“Rights give rise to legal claims. Ultimately, the more rights animals are granted, the greater the legal lien exercised on their behalf against the liberty and property of people.” PeopleGivingAnimalLibertyGreaterRightsClaimsPropertyGrantedBehalf Author:Ilana Mercer
“Every man has by nature the right to possess property as his own. This is one of the chief points of distinction between man and the animal creation.” MenWisdomPoliticsAnimalEconomyCreationPropertyEvery ManChiefsLiberalismDistinction Book:A Light in the Heavens: Great Encyclical Letters of Pope Leo XIII Source: A Light in the Heavens: Great Encyclical Letters of Pope Leo XIII
“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.” IfsWorldShouldYearsRunningPurposeSufferingUniverseEvilNaturalAnimalAliveMinutesDyingDesignEvolutionAmountDiseasePropertySpeciesBottomSentencesIndifferenceContemplationDecentTake MeThirstNatural WorldStarvationParasitesGod Delusion Author:Richard Dawkins
“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.” RealIndividualAnimalCommonExistencePropertyPlantSpeciesChains Author:Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon