"None of that is necessary. It's not as if we're in a situation where it is us or them.There's something peculiar about talking about the moral status of animals, when we are killing and eating them for no reason whatsoever."

-- Gary L. Francione

#Animal Quotes #Talking Quotes #Peculiar Quotes

“The 'natural' is not necessarily a 'human' value. Humanity has begun to transcend nature: we can no longer justify the maintenance of a discriminatory sex class system on grounds of its origins in nature. Indeed, for pragmatic reasons alone it is beginning to look as if we must get rid of it.”

Source : "Shulamith Firestone obituary" by Julie Bindel, www.theguardian.com. September 6, 2012.
“I've been allowed to develop my own character, which I'm still working on.”

Source : "DIVA TALK: Chatting with Wicked's Rue McClanahan Plus News of Cook, Eder and Menzel". Interview with Andrew Gans, www.playbill.com. July 22, 2005.
“I love the idea of anthropomorphizing machines. I love the idea of taking technology and giving it a personality.”
“...and whether or not we had now paid our dues, he was my blessing, and I was his...”
“I want a better world, but also a realistic world. We can only create a better world by becoming realistic.”

Source : Source: valuet.wordpress.com
“The problem is simply this: no one can feel like CEO of his or her life in the presence of the people who toilet trained her and spanked him when he was naughty. We may have become Masters of the Universe, accustomed to giving life and taking it away, casually ordering people into battle or out of their jobs . . . and yet we may still dirty our diapers at the sound of our mommy's whimper or our daddy's growl.”
“Verily, we know not what an evil it is to indulge ourselves, and to make an idol of our will.”
“Give me a land of boughs in leaf A land of trees that stand; Where trees are fallen there is grief; I love no leafless land.”

Source : A. E. Housman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of A. E. Housman (Illustrated)”, p.8, Delphi Classics

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