1,641 Quotes About Animal


  • Author John Berger
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    A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork. What is significant, and is so difficult for the urban stranger to understand, is that the two statements are connected by an and not by a but.

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  • Author John Burnside
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    What is essential - the one thing that could stop us being coarsened to other lives - is that we feel a great, living wave of animal life all around us, covering the earth.

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  • Author Kathryn Bigelow
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    There will come a time when the world will look back to modern vivisection in the name of science, as they do now to burning at the stake in the name of religion.

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  • Author Kenneth Burke
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    Man is/the symbol-using (symbol making, symbol-misusing) animal/inventor of the negative (or moralized by the negative)/separated from his natural condition by instruments of his own making/goaded by the spirit of hierarchy (or moved by the sense of order)/and rotten with perfection.

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