"I am not interested to know whether vivisection produces results that are profitable to the human race or doesn't...The pain which it inflicts upon unconsenting animals is the basis of my enmity toward it, and it is to me sufficient justification of the enmity without looking further."

-- Mark Twain

#Pain Quotes #Animal Quotes #Race Quotes

“I do walk with a bit of a swagger. I do swear a lot. And people are going to be offended by that. But in this PC world, you can't be honest.”
“We like slipping, but not falling; our real anxiety is to be tempted enough.”

Source : Augustus William Hare (1827). “Guesses at Truth”, p.180
“It is no coincidence that one cardinal rule in brainwashing is to remove from the victim all photographs of himself and people he has known.”
“A great gift is an answer waiting for a question.”
“I'm The Only Entity On Earth, Other Than Rogue States, That Has Received An Apology From The White House”
“How will the bombing of Baghdad, a city of five million, accomplish a regime change?”
“You doubt God? Well more to the point I credit God with the good sense to doubt me. What is mortality after all but divine doubt flashing over us? For an instant God suspends assent and poof! we disappear.”
“If you want to do anything, do it now, without compromise or concession, because you have only one life.”

Source : "Living without 'isms'" by Maya Jaggi, www.theguardian.com. August 1, 2008.

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