"Nonviolence against humans cannot take firm hold in society as long as brutality and violence are practiced toward other animals."

-- Robert Thurman

#Animal Quotes #Long Quotes #Brutality Quotes

“Cut the pie any way you like, "meanings" just ain't in the head!”

Source : Hilary Putnam (1979). “Philosophical Papers: Volume 2, Mind, Language and Reality”, p.227, Cambridge University Press
“Someone with a fresh mind, one not conditioned by upbringing and environment, would doubtless look at science and the powerful reductionism that it inspires as overwhelmingly the better mode of understanding the world, and would doubtless scorn religion as sentimental wishful thinking. Would not that same uncluttered mind also see the attempts to reconcile science and religion by disparaging the reduction of the complex to the simple as attempts guided by muddle-headed sentiment and intellectually dishonest emotion?”
“When Pinterest works well, it helps you find things that are meaningful to you. We want to build a system that helps you do that.”

Source : "Ben Silbermann, Pinterest Founder And CEO, Talks Criticism, Fears". Interview with Sara Wilson, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 27, 2012.
“To possess your soul in patience, with all the skin and some of the flesh burnt off your face and hands, is a job for a boy compared with the pains of a man who has lived pretty long in the exhilarating world that drugs or strong waters seem to create and is trying to live now in the first bald desolation created by knocking them off.”

Source : Charles Edward Montague (1922). “Disenchantment”
“The Middle East has the highest unemployment percentage of any region in the world we have the largest youth cohort of history coming into the market place that frustration does translate into the political sphere when people are hungry and without jobs.”
“I think actors who take things too far are funny.”

Source : "Q&A – Dean Norris (Hank Schrader)". AMC Interview, www.amc.com. April 2009.
“The outdoors, the beautiful environment, both in fresh and salt water. And the thing that concerns me is the amount of kids that stand on street corners, or go into pinball parlours, and call it recreation.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I find it very difficult just to sit. I would love to learn how to do that with contentment.”

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