"We need to renegotiate our contract with nature. Ecology is a unifying force that can diminish intolerance and expand our empathy towards othersâ€”both human and animal."

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Source : "Peace and Harmony: The Message of Our Discovery". Photo Magazine, No. 427, March 2006.

Gregory Colbert

#Animal Quotes #Empathy Quotes #Needs Quotes

“Classically, there are three ways in which humans try to find transcendence--religious meaning--apart from God as revealed through the cross of Jesus: through the ecstasy of alcohol and drugs, through the ecstasy of recreational sex, through the ecstasy of crowds. Church leaders frequently warn against the drugs and the sex, but at least, in America, almost never against the crowds.”
“If I ever wanted to pick someone's brain, like Larry David would obviously be the most relevant.”
“If we do not do the impossible, we shall be faced with the unthinkable.”

Source : "The Ecology of Freedom". Book by Murray Bookchin, p. 107, 2005.
“It is common to distinguish necessaries, comforts, and luxuries; the first class including all things required to meet wants which must be satisfied, while the latter consist of things that meet wants of a less urgent character.”

Source : Alfred Marshall (1997). “Principles of Economics”
“It is one of the consolations of philosophy that the benefit of showing how to dispense with a concept does not hinge on dispensing with it.”
“You can find flaws in Agassi and Sampras, but Federer has none.”
“Like electricity, the Light is everywhere, but one must know how to activate it. I have come for that.”
“The doctrine of thrift for the poor is dumb and cruel, like advising them to try and lift themselves by their bootstraps.”

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