Ruth Harrison famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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We must do all in our power to educate the public, for I believe that in the end only a change of heart is really effective.
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If one person is unkind to an animal it is considered to be cruelty, but if a lot of people are unkind to animals (especially in the name of profit) the cruelty is condoned and will be defended by otherwise intelligent people.
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It is a sobering thought that animals could do without man, yet man would find it almost impossible to do without animals.
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Family organisation is broken and young animals are increasingly being denied a mother to turn to for comfort and for grooming. One of the saddest and most pathetic of farm practices - inevitable at the present time for the supply of dairy produce - is the separation of the calf from the cow at birth or soon after.
-- Ruth Harrison
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A country scratching a lazy irritation at sagging doorjambs and late trains, whose greatest attribute is a collective, smelly tolerance, where a chap will put up with almost everything, which means he won't care about anything enough to get out of a chair.A country of public insouciance and private, grubby guilt, where you can believe anything as long as you don't believe it too fervently. A country where the highest aspiration is for a quiet life.
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I still secretly believe that afternoons are the time for the test card and you shouldn't watch television when the sun is out.
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I believe it was the great ogre philosopher Gary who observed that complexity is, generally speaking, an illusion of conscious desire. All things exist in as simple a form as necessity dictates. When a thing is labeled 'complex,' that's just a roundabout way of saying you're not observant enough to understand it.
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Rather than making money I believe in making people happy, all other things are secondary. Money isn't important, creative satisfaction is
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The Holy Spirit is just as truly in us when He makes no sign as when the fountains of joy are overflowing, or the waters of peace are softly refreshing our weary and troubled heart.
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The greatest need of our age and of every age, the greatest need of every human heart, is to know the resources and sufficiency of God.
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I sought them far and found them, The sure, the straight, the brave, The hearts I lost my own to, The souls I could not save They braced their belts about them, They crossed in ships the sea, They sought and found six feet of ground, And there they died for me.
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People who deal with life generously and large-heartedly go on multiplying relationships to the end.
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I was in a fashion show and I had on a strapless top. When I got to the end the top was down
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Best of an island is once you get there - you can't go any farther...you've come to the end of things...
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