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“O God, enlarge within us the sense of fellowship with all living things, even our brothers, the animals, to whom Thou gavest the earth as their home in common with us. We must remember with shame that in the past we have exercised the high dominion of man with ruthless cruelty so that the voice of the earth, which should have gone up to thee in song, has been a groan of pain. May we realize that they live, not for us alone, but for themselves and for Thee and that they love the sweetness of life.”

“There is, as yet, no sense of pride in the husbandry of wild plants and animals, no sense of shame in the proprietorship of a sick landscape. We tilt windmills in behalf of conservation in convention halls and editorial offices, but on the back forty we disclaim even owning a lance.”

Animal Land Pride Office Sick Shame Plant Landscape Forty Halls Conventions Conservation Behalf Editorials Plants And Animals Tilt Windmills

Book:A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There

Source: A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There

“In you, humanity is precarious; and so, in dread and in shame, you kill the animal in you. And its slaughter poisons you.”

Humanity Animal Shame Poison Dread Slaughter Precarious Olaf

Book:Last and first men, and Last men in London

Source: Last and first men, and Last men in London

“Plants do everything animals do, but slowly. They migrate, communicate, deceive, stalk their food and, with an ostentation of styles and perfumes to put the animal kingdom to shame, they make love. It's just that catching them in flagrante delicto might require time-lapse photography.”

Might Animal Style Photography Shame Plant Communicate Kingdoms Deceiving Making Love Perfume Catching Stalking Lapses Animal Kingdom Ostentation Migrate Time Lapse

Author:Barbara Kingsolver

“There is seemingly no biological benefit to acting with conscience; if there were, only moral individuals would survive and procreate. Sadly, we know that's not true. The benefit of conscience is that you won't suffer guilt (private) or shame (public), and that by your own self-imposed definition, you are a moral human, a special kind of animal who takes unique pride in elevating him/herself above the termites.”

Source: How Could You Do That?!: Abdication of Character, Courage, Consci

“I felt shame for living in a nation of unprecedented prosperity-a nation that spends a smaller percentage of income on food than any other civilization has in human history-but in the name of affordability treats the animals it eats with cruelty so extreme it would be illegal if inflicted on a dog.”

Ifs Humans Would Be Names Nations Felt Animal Dog Civilization Treats Shame Prosperity Extremes Income Cruelty Illegal Human History Percentages Unprecedented Affordability

Author:Jonathan Safran Foer

“I have exposed myself and am not ashamed to stand there naked. "Shame" is what we call the monster that attached itself to men when they aspired beyond the animals.”

Men Animal Shame Monsters Naked Innocence Ashamed Exposed

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“Animals don't think in terms of victims and villains, or good and bad, or evil, or shame.”

Thinking Evil Term Animal Shame Victim Villain Good And Bad

Author:Justin Torres

“Shame doesn't exist in the animal kingdom. It's a human conception.”

Humans Animal Shame Kingdoms Conception Animal Kingdom

Author:Justin Torres

“Mari remembered what she had read in the young girl's eyes the moment she had come into the refectory: fear. Fear. Veronika might feel insecurity, shyness, shame, constraint, but why fear? That was only justifiable when confronted by a real threat: ferocious animals, armed attackers, earthquakes, but not a group of people gathered together in a refectory. But human beings are like that,' she thought. 'We've replaced nearly all our emotions with fear.”

People Feels Humans Real Moments Might Eye Together Young Girl Fear Human Beings Animal Emotion Groups Shame Threat Remembered Insecurity Replaced Constraints Earthquakes Shyness

Author:Paulo Coelho

“He had been content with daily labour and rough animal enjoyments, 'till Catherine crossed his path. Shame at her scorn, and hope of her approval, were his first prompts to higher pursuits; and, instead of guarding him from one and winning him to the other, his endeavors to raise himself had produced just the contrary result.”

Firsts Winning Animal Results Path Higher Shame Raises Contrary Pursuit Enjoyment Labour Rough Endeavor Approval Scorn Prompts Guarding

Author:Emily Bronte

“Such silly things, children -- and so embarrassing -- because they keep changing themselves out of shame, out of a need to be loved or something. While animals are born who they are, accept it, and that is that. They live with greater peace than people do.”

People Needs Children Born Animal Accepting Greater Shame Silly Embarrassing Silly Things

Author:Gregory Maguire

“Those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art.”

Littles Art Nature Animal Environment Air Musician Shame Environmental Curious Pet Laws Of Nature Nimble Bird Watching

Book:The Complete Angler

Source: The Complete Angler

“Because Christian morality leaves animals out of account, they are at once outlawed in philosophical morals; they are mere 'things,' mere means to any ends whatsoever. They can therefore be used for vivisection, hunting, coursing, bullfights, and horse racing, and can be whipped to death as they struggle along with heavy carts of stone. Shame on such a morality that is worthy of pariahs, and that fails to recognize the eternal essence that exists in every living thing, and shines forth with inscrutable significance from all eyes that see the sun!”

“An infallible characteristic of meanness is cruelty. Men who have practiced tortures on animals without pity, relating them without shame, how can they still hold their heads among human beings?”

Men Humans Stills Human Beings Animal Shame Pity Cruelty Torture Characteristics Animal Rights Infallible Meanness

Author:Samuel Johnson