“If you did everything your mind told you to do, you do some really strange stuff. You'll probably be in jail, you'll be in trouble. But, it's all about control. We all have to control our feelings. That's the thing that separates us from animals.” IfsMindFeelingsStuffAnimalTroubleStrangeJail Author:Mike Tyson
“Labor came to humanity with the fall from grace and was at best a penitential sacrifice enabling purity through humiliation. Laborwas toil, distress, trouble, fatigue--an exertion both painful and compulsory. Labor was our animal condition, struggling to survive in dirt and darkness.” HumanityFallAnimalDarknessStruggleGraceTroubleSacrificeConditionsLaborPainfulPurityDirtDistressToilHumiliationFatigueEnablingExertionCompulsoryStruggling To SurviveFalls From Grace Author:Shoshana Zuboff
“If the World War [I] demonstrated anything it was that government ownership is fraught with the gravest dangers and usually leads to disaster. Take Britain. The two problems which have caused the greatest trouble since the war ended have been transportation and coal. The government seized both industries when the war broke out. It got them into such a hopeless mess that it does not know how to turn [In] coal; the government now realizes, it took hold of the tail of a wild animal and is afraid to let go.” IfsKnowsWorldDoeHas BeensTwoWarProblemGovernmentTurnsRealizingAnimalKnow HowTroubleDangerIndustryLetting GoDisasterMessBrokeWar Of The WorldsBritainHopelessWorld War IOwnershipTailsCoalTransportationWild Animal Author:B. C. Forbes
“The ethic of Reverence for Life prompts us to keep each other alert to what troubles us and to speak and act dauntlessly together in discharging the responsibility that we feel. It keeps us watching together for opportunities to bring some sort of help to animals in recompense for the great misery that men inflict upon them, and thus for a moment we escape from the incomprehensible horror of existence.” MenFeelsMomentsHelpingTogetherOpportunitySpeakAnimalExistenceResponsibilityTroubleHorrorEthicsMiseryReverencePromptsReverence For LifeRecompense Author:Albert Schweitzer
“If a dog happens to catch a rabbit or another animal, it can very easily remove the hide. If a cat catches a squirrel, they have no trouble with that. But if a person does that, they will work all day and all night to get the skin off of an animal, because they don't have long canine teeth anymore.” IfsPersonsLongDoeHappensNightAnimalTroubleDogCatSkinsTeethRemoveRabbitsAll NightSquirrelsCanine Author:Neal Barnard