Brian Reynolds Myers famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The idolatry of food cuts across class lines. This can be seen in the public's toleration of a level of cruelty in meat production that it would tolerate nowhere else. If someone inflicts pain on an animal for visual, aural, or sexual gratification, we consider him a monster, and the law makes at least a token effort at punishment. If someone's goal is to put the "product" in his mouth? ...
-- Brian Reynolds Myers

#Pain #Cutting #Animal
People who cannot distinguish between good and bad language, or who regard the distinction as unimportant, are unlikely to think carefully about anything else.
-- Brian Reynolds Myers

#Thinking #People #Language
Life cannot be classified in terms of a simple neurological ladder, with human beings at the top; it is more accurate to talk of different forms of intelligence, each with its strengths and weaknesses. This point was well demonstrated in the minutes before last December's tsunami, when tourists grabbed their digital cameras and ran after the ebbing surf, and all the 'dumb' animals made for the hills.
-- Brian Reynolds Myers

#Animal #Simple #Political
People tend to overlook the fact that North Korea's economy collapsed at about the same time as South Koreans lost faith in their own state. The late 1980s and early 1990s were a time when South Koreans were questioning the very legitimacy of their republic.
-- Brian Reynolds Myers

#Korea #People #Republic
That's a mistake I think that a lot of Western observers make is to assume that Korean nationalism is hundreds if not thousands of years old. When in fact nationalism is incompatible with Korean Confucian tradition.
-- Brian Reynolds Myers

#Mistake #Thinking #Years
If South Korea is going to survive, and keep the peace on the peninsula, its citizens need to start conveying support for their state.
-- Brian Reynolds Myers

#Korea #Support #Needs
I think the West needs to get away from the habit of regarding the regime's nuclear tests and ballistic launches as isolated provocations timed to generate maximum attention.
-- Brian Reynolds Myers

#Thinking #Needs #Nuclear
Talking is always a good idea. There's no harm in keeping lines of communication open.
-- Brian Reynolds Myers

#Communication #Talking #Ideas

The thing you realize as you get older and you play, that you don't really understand when you're a backup the first few offseasons, how important that mental rest is. It's a grind physically during the season, dealing with the hits and the physical pain that goes with playing in this game. But mentally it's probably more taxing, so you need that ability to find that escape.
I am for liberty of conscience in its noblest, broadest, and highest sense. But I cannot give liberty of conscience to the pope and his followers, the papists, so long as they tell me, through all their councils, theologians, and canon laws that their conscience orders them to burn my wife, strangle my children, and cut my throat when they find their opportunity.
If i get 8 hours to cut a tree i'll spend 7 hours to sharp my knife.
This is my life, I thought...I have excised the cancer from my past, cut it out; I have crossed the high plains, descended into the desert, traversed oceans, and planted my feet in new soil; I have been the apprentice, paid my dues, and have just become master of my ship. But when I look down, why do I see the ancient, tarred, mud-stained slippers that I buried at the start of the journey still stuck to my feet?
Was there any form of filth or crime without at least one Jew involved in it? If you cut into such a sore, you find, like a maggot in a rotting body, often dazzled by the sudden light, a Jew.
Cut Chemist and DJ Shadow are going to blow your funky mind!
It is totally unconscionable to subject defenseless animals to mutilation and death, just so a company can be the first to market a new shade of nail polish or a new, improved laundry detergent. It's cruel, it's brutal, it's inhumane, and most people don't want it.
Man is a perpetually wanting animal.
Fame is a very strange animal.
The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.

Brian Reynolds Myers famous quotes

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