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“Man has been called a rational being, but rationality is a matter of choice-and the alternative his nature offers him is: rational being or suicidal animal. Man has to be man-by choice; he has to hold his life as a value-by choice; he has to learn to sustain it-by choice; he has to discover the values it requires and practice his virtues-by choice. A code of values accepted by choice is a code of morality.”

Men Has Beens Matter Values Choices Animal Practice Virtue Morality Offers Accepted Rational Alternatives Code Rationality Suicidal

Author:John Galt

“Here, I think, lies our real dilemma. Probably we cannot, certainly we shall not, retrace our steps. We are tamed animals (some with kind, some with cruel, masters) and should probably starve if we got out of our cage. That is one horn of the dilemma. But in an increasingly planned society, how much of what I value can survive? That is the other horn.”

Ifs Thinking Should Kind Real Lying Values Animal Steps Masters Cages Horns Dilemma Tamed

Author:C. S. Lewis

“The meekest of animals will fight bravely when it is backed against a wall, for it has nothing left to lose. A poor man is more deadly than a rich man because he puts less value on his own life.”

Men Values Fighting Left Loses Animal Poor Rich Wall Rich Man Poor Man

Author:R. A. Salvatore

“I discovered that our clan included loads of cousins and uncles and aunts and animals of every shape. I was taught that chaos and competition were family values. And I learned that we all loved the sea. Somehow, the sea was about us-our past, our exuberance, our frailty, our longing.”

Past Values Animal Sea Taught Shapes Longing Competition Chaos Load Our Past Uncles Cousin Aunt Frailty Family Values Clans Exuberance

Author:Timothy Shriver

“Once you begin to take yourself seriously as a leader or as a follower, as a modern or as a conservative, then you become a self-conscious, biting, and scratching little animal whose work is not of the slightest value or importance to anybody.”

Littles Self Values Animal Leader Modern Conscious Importance Conservative Followers Self Conscious Biting

Book:The Essays of Virginia Woolf: 1929-1932

Source: The Essays of Virginia Woolf: 1929-1932

“What is it that endowed things with meaning, value, significance? The creating heart, which desired, and, out of its desire, created. It created joy and woe. It wanted to satiate itself with woe. We must take all the suffering that has been endured by men and animals upon ourselves and affirm it, and possess a goal in which it acquires reason.”

Men Heart Has Beens Reason Wanted Joy Desire Suffering Values Goal Animal Creation Creating Acquire Significance Woe

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“Elizabeth Rothra's excellent biography of Charles Torrey Simpson restates his philosophies about the intrinsic value of natural ecosystems like the Everglades. No one knew better than he the history of the plants and animals of South Florida or conveyed it with more humor and enthusiasm.”

Philosophy Values Natural Animal Plant South Enthusiasm Excellent Florida Biographies Ecosystems Plants And Animals Intrinsic Value Everglades South Florida

Author:Marjory Stoneman Douglas

“I am a very strict vegetarian. ...I just really, really love animals, and I act on my values.”

Values Animal Vegetarian Strict Animal Love

Author:Natalie Portman

“When I look at birds and animals, their survival is without rules, without conditions, without organization. But mothers take good care of their offspring. That's nature. In human beings also, parents - particularly mothers - and children have a special bond. Mother's milk is a sign of this affection. We are created that way. The child's survival is entirely dependent on someone else's affection. So, basically, each individual's survival or future depends on society. We need these human values.”

“And at this moment in history, our core value happens to be the raw, aching truth of the human predicament. It may also be the only belief that can save us as a species. A species that will continue to find comfort and delight in the companionship of animals, the miracle of birds, the colours of the corals and the majesty of the forests. We are in it together, on this blue spinning marble in the cold and silent void. And we must act on that belief, if we are going to be able to continue to live a good life here, in this beautiful and fragile country, on this lovely planet, our only home.”

“Even if animal experimentation was proved to be of value, it would be morally wrong.”

Ifs Would Be Values Animal Experimentation Animal Experimentation

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“The issue of animal use and abuse can seem insurmountable, it is tragic and it is complex. We love our companion animals and we value wildlife but we are generally blind to the realities of what goes into the food we eat.”

Use Reality Seems Values Animal Issues Abuse Blind Complexes Tragic Companion Wildlife Insurmountable Companion Animals Use And Abuse

Author:Liz Marshall

“The problem with the emotions is not that they are untamed forces or vestiges of our animal past; it is that they were designed to propagate copies of the genes that built them rather than to promote happiness, wisdom, or moral values.”

Problem Past Values Force Animal Emotion Moral Built Copies Genes Moral Values Untamed

Book:How the Mind Works

Source: How the Mind Works

“Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far. The Europeans value themselves on having subdued the horse to the uses of man; but I doubt whether we have not lost more than we have gained, by the use of this animal.”

Men Use Values Lost Walks Animal Doubt Walking Exercise Horse

Book:Memoir, correspondence and miscellanies from the papers of Thomas Jefferson

Source: Memoir, correspondence and miscellanies from the papers of Thomas Jefferson

“What they [psychedelics] cause is what I'm advocating, a fundamental revaluation of cultural values, because culture as we're practicing it currently is causing a lot of pain to a lot of people, and animals, and ecosystems, none of whom were ever allowed to vote on whether they wanted this process to go in this direction.”

People Wanted Pain Values Culture Causes Process Animal Vote Fundamentals Ecosystems Advocating

Author:Terence McKenna