"Animals are, like us, endangered species on an endangered planet, and we are the ones who are endangering them, it, and ourselves. They are innocent sufferers in a hell of our making."

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Source : Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson (1995). “When Elephants Weep: The Emotional Lives of Animals”, Doubleday

Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson

#Animal Quotes #Hell Quotes #Innocent Quotes

“Television has raised writing to a new low.”
“It would be a very odd chancellor of any UK government that insisted on a course of action that cost their own businesses hundreds of millions of pounds, that blew a massive hole in their balance of payments and, because assets and liabilities go hand in hand, would potentially leave the rest of the UK shouldering the entirety of UK debt.”
“There's the devil to pay.”
“In relation to the earth we have been autistic for centuries. Only now have we begun to listen with some attention and with a willingness to respond to the earth's demands that we cease our industrial assault, that we abandon our inner rage against the conditions of our earthly existence, that we renew our human participation in the grand liturgy of the universe.”

Source : Thomas Berry, Thomas Mary Berry (1996). “Creative Energy: Bearing Witness for the Earth”, Random House (NY)
“Damn any man who sympathizes with Indians! . . . . I have come to kill Indians, and believe it is right and honorable to use any means under God's heaven to kill Indians.”

Source : "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West (War Comes to the Cheyenne)". Book by Dee Brown (pp. 86-87), 1970.
“Beauty should be edible, or not at all.”
“You've got seconds to grab your audience's attention and only minutes to keep it.”
“In the Depression we had to divert corn acreage.”

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