"Although we have, in theory, abolished human slavery, recognized women's rights, and stopped child labor, we continue to enslave other species who, if we simply pay attention, show quite clearly that they experience parental love, pain, and the desire for freedom, just as we do."

-- Ingrid Newkirk

#Children Quotes #Pain Quotes #Rights Quotes

“Peter Bogdanovich is a good friend.”
“The roots of our grief coil so deeply into loss that death has cometo live with us like a family member who makes you happy by avoidingyou, but who is still one of the family. Our anger is a rage that Westerners cannot understand. Our sadness can make the stonesweep. And the way we love is no exception”
“Obviously, (winning the division) is big. To be No. 1 is always important..”
“Breaking the United States up into a number of pieces could be very good for the integration of those new nations with the rest of the world and the international law whose primary enemy is now the United States government. I think that it would be very good for democracy, for people to be within some hundreds of miles of their nation's capital, as they are in many other countries, so that they didn't have to travel thousands of miles to protest, to exercise their First Amendment rights, but that is the current state of affairs in this overly large, imperial nation.”

Source : Source: www.counterpunch.org
“Once upon a time I was such a good liar; I could talk the fish right into my mouths.”
“Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.”

Source : New York Times, January 8, 1981.
“I'm cool with being the sad guy, but I don't want to be the guy who nobody wants around because he's so miserable.”

Source : Interview with Larry Fitzmaurice, pitchfork.com. October 8, 2012.
“We seek not rest but transformation. We are dancing through each other as doorways.”

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