"A liberal society cannot be defended by herbivores. We need carnivores to save us, but we had better make sure the meat-eaters hunt only on our orders."

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Source : "Lesser Evils" by Michael Ignatieff, www.nytimes.com. May 2, 2004.

Michael Ignatieff

#Order Quotes #Meat Quotes #Needs Quotes

“For the whole consequence of evolution from blind impulse through conscious will to self conscious knowledge, seems still somehow to correspond to a continued result of births, rebirths and new births, which reach from the birth of the child from the mother, beyond the birth of the individual from the mass, to the birth of the creative work from the individual and finally to the birth of knowledge from the work.”

Source : Otto Rank Association, Otto Rank (1976). “Journal”
“A gun can be dangerous. But a gun can protect you, you can hunt for food with it - you know, the tool itself is a tool. The intention of the party using the tool is a part of the process, right? You know: the knife cuts the steak, stabs the person, saves somebody from danger, cuts somebody out of a car.”
“Well, yeah, sometimes I get a little too creative.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“As small letters hurt the sight, so do small matters him that is too much intent upon them; they vex and stir up anger, which begets an evil habit in him in reference to greater affairs.”
“Every moment is all the things that have happened before and all the things that are going to happen, and...the way all those things look at one point on their way along a line.”
“Kate felt very offended. 'I am not an elf,' she insisted. 'I'm an Englishwoman!”

Source : Clare B. Dunkle (2006). “The Hollow Kingdom: Book I -- The Hollow Kingdom Trilogy”, p.154, Macmillan
“All effort at originality must end either in the quaint or the monstrous. For no man knows himself as an original; he can only believe it on the report of others.”

Source : Washington Allston, Richard Henry Dana (1850). “Lectures on Art, and Poems”, p.174, Scholarly Pub Office Univ of
“Humility is royalty without a crown.”

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