"All the arguments to prove man's superiority cannot shatter this hard fact: in suffering the animals are our equals."

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Source : "Peter Singer" by Ed Vulliamy, www.theguardian.com. February 14, 2009.

Peter Singer

#Encouragement Quotes #Animal Quotes #Equality Quotes

“It is an impressively arrogant move to conclude that just because you donâ€™t like something, it is empirically not good. I donâ€™t like Chinese food, but I donâ€™t write articles trying to prove it doesnâ€™t exist.”
“I don't know if I'd go with an alien to space. I would have to feel the alien's vibe. I'm a vibe person.”
“If I had to guess and put a name on it, I'd say that at some point, the drug war was as much a function of class and social control as it was of racism.”
“Don't try to blame the rest of the world. The blame only lies with you. Recognize that immediately.”
“Trust me, when they read the [Oscar] results, my face was...frozen. But then I thought about it, and I just decided just to...let it go.”
“If you expect nothing, you can never be disappointed. Apart from a few starry-eyed poets or monks living on a mountaintop somewhere, however, we all have expectations. We not only have them, we need them. They fuel our dreams, our hopes, and our lives like some super-caffeinated energy drink.”
“When John Travolta had the opportunity to do The Boy In The Plastic Bubble, he brought me and a couple other people from the movie to just be the students and have some parts, because he wanted to help us out. I thought that was really sweet.”
“The parasite of art, the virus of art, never ceases to gnaw awat at your brain, never ceases to torture you with the knowledge that whatever you’re doing could be done more beautifully, more powerfully, more stirringly, more disturbingly, more deeply.”

Source : Brian Morton (2004). “A Window Across the River”, p.96, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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