“Parsons always seem to be specially horrified about things like sunbathing and naked bodies. They don't mind poverty and misery and cruelty to animals nearly as much.” MindBodySeemsAnimalPovertyAtheismMiseryPositive AtheismNakedCrueltyAnimal CrueltySunbathing Book:The Story of Julian Source: The Story of Julian
“How many times we have picked up in the streets human beings who had been living like animals and were longing to die like angels!” HumansDiesHuman BeingsAnimalPovertyStreetsAngelLonging Author:Mother Teresa
“Science comforting man's animal poverty and leisuring his toil, hath humanized manners and social temper, and now above her globe-spredd net of speeded intercourse hath outrun all magic, and disclosing the secrecy of the reticent air hath woven a web of invisible strands spiriting the dumb inane with the quick matter of life.” MenMatterSocialAnimalPovertyMagicAirInvisibleMannersDumbTemperGlobesToilComfortingSecrecyIntercourseWovenStrandsOutrun Author:Robert Bridges
“People say what distinguishes us from the animals is that we think. Well, then why the hell don't we extend some compassion to those under tremendous duress? There's this whole idea that you work really hard so you can deaden your soul to the universe and enjoy yourself only in ways the Sierra Club will let you. But what about enjoying yourself by getting into the whole melee of poverty and racism and violence and murder and drug addiction? Get in there, roll up your sleeves, and do something! Nobody does it.” PeopleThinkingWayWellsDoeIdeasSoulHardWholeUniverseEnjoyAnimalCompassionPovertyHellViolenceDrugRacismMurderAddictionClubsYour SoulSleevesDrug AddictionDrug AddictSierraEnjoy YourselfDuress Author:Jimmy Santiago Baca
“Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.” MenKindI CanPoliticalPoliticsTermAnimalPoorPovertyRichDemandEconomicsGreedPreyEnding PovertyEconomic InequalityTotemsDistribution Of WealthRiches And PoorsPredators And Prey Author:Thomas Jefferson
“There are millions and millions of people who are thrown in the midst of poverty and starvation. Animals don't die of starvation, only human beings.” PeopleHumansDiesHuman BeingsAnimalPovertyMillionsThrownMidstStarvation Author:Mata Amritanandamayi
“The way we treat animals is the root cause of all the human suffering in the world, from poverty, starvation, disease, and war to lack of clean air and water, not to mention all the varied forms of human emotional and spiritual suffering.” WorldWayHumansWarSpiritualFormSufferingCausesWaterAnimalPovertyAirEmotionalDiseaseRootsTreatsCleanStarvationHuman SufferingRoot CauseClean AirAir And Water Author:Sharon Gannon
“The UN special envoy on food called it a 'crime against humanity' to funnel 100 million tons of grain and corn to ethanol when almost a billion people are starving. So what kind of crime is animal agriculture, which uses 756 million tons of grain and corn per year, much more than enough to adequately feed the 1.4 billion human who are living in dire poverty?” PeopleYearsHumansKindEnoughUseHumanityAnimalPovertyMillionsSpecialCrimeBillionsGrainAgricultureStarvingCornCrimes Against HumanityEthanolAnimal Agriculture Author:Jonathan Safran Foer