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“The difference between prose logic and poetic thought is simple. The logician uses words as a builder uses bricks, for the unemotional deadness of his academic prose; and is always coining newer, deader words with a natural preference for Greek formations. The poet avoids the entire vocabulary of logic unless for satiric purposes, and treats words as living creatures with a preference for those with long emotional histories dating from mediaeval times. Poetry at its purest is, indeed, a defiance of logic.”

Source: Some speculations on literature, history, and religion

“Heaven and earth are ruthless, and treat the various creatures as straw dogs; the sage is ruthless, and treats others as straw dogs.”

Earth Heaven Dog Creatures Treats Various Sage Ruthless Heaven And Earth Straws

Author:Laozi

“He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.”

Source: Lectures on Ethics

“Italy is good in the sense that when you bring a child to a restaurant in Italy, they're happy to see it. The waiters will say "complimenti" and welcome you and dote after the kid. They don't treat you like you just brought in this horrible probably soon-to-be-squealing creature who's going to be difficult.”

Children Kids Difficult Like You Creatures Treats Horrible Welcome Restaurants Waiter Squealing

Author:Anthony Bourdain

“We ought not to treat living creatures like shoes or household belongings, which when worn with use we throw away.”

Life Use Nature Ought Creatures Treats Shoes Belonging Household Worn Living Creatures

Author:Plutarch

“The creatures that want to live a life of their own, we call wild. If wild, then no matter how harmless, we treat them as outlaws, and those of us who are specially well brought up shoot them for fun.”

Ifs Want Wells Matter Fun Creatures Treats Hunting Outlaw

Book:This Simian World

Source: This Simian World

“My own sex, I hope, will excuse me, if I treat them like rational creatures, instead of flattering their fascinating graces, and viewing them as if they were in a state of perpetual childhood, unable to stand alone.”

Source: A vindication of the rights of woman: with strictures on political and moral subjects