"The idea that it is funny to see wild animals coerced into acting like clumsy humans, or thrilling to see powerful beasts reduced to cringing cowards by a whip-cracking trainer is primitive and medieval. It stems from the old idea that we are superior to other species and have the right to hold dominion over them."

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Source : "Rose-Tinted Menagerie" by William Johnson, (p. 10), 1990.

Desmond Morris

#Powerful Quotes #Animal Quotes #Ideas Quotes

“For reforms ameliorate the situation of the working class, they lighten the weight of the chains labour is burdened with by capitalism, but they are not sufficient to crush capitalism and to emancipate the workers from their tyranny.”
“You never write down to the people - you write the best you can with the hope that someone else will feel the same way.”
“My belief in the growth and permanence of democracy is undimmed. I know that the people will cast off the new dictatorship as they did the old. I believe as firmly as in my youth that humanity will surmount the era of poverty and war. Life will be happier and more beautiful for all. I believe in the GOLDEN AGE.”
“How do you make things fair?”
“After the Soft Boys I just didn't want to work with any more guitarists.”
“The only bird that gives the poor a real tumble is the stork.”
“we all suffer in our different ways from being prisoners of birth.”
“Some rules are there for a reason - but it's one thing to have a rule that protects and another to have rules that stifle. I've seen a lot of those articles and I thought they were unreasonable when I was in school, but they're getting a little bit out of hand now. We should embrace what makes us different, our different styles, our creativity.”

Source : Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

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