People care about animals. I believe that. They just don’t want to know or to pay. A fourth of all chickens have stress fractures. It’s wrong. They’re packed body to body, and can’t escape their waste, and never see the sun. Their nails grow around the bars of their cages. It’s wrong. They feel their slaughters. It’s wrong, and people know it’s wrong. They don’t have to be convinced. They just have to act differently. I’m not better than anyone, and I’m not trying to convince people to live by my standards of what’s right. I’m trying to convince them to live by their own.
Jonathan Safran FoerTags: animals animal-rights veganism vegetarian slaughter
Finally, Charlie gave up the hunt and placed (the puppy) back on the floor, dispatching fleas was not his idea of a romantic evening, unless you happened to be a twisted exterminator, he thought.
E.A. BucchianeriTags: humor animals dogs romance humour puppies funny weird pets dates bloodsuckers fleas exterminators pass-the-fleas-please pests romance-gone-wrong romantic-evening
They're animals, all right. But why are you so goddam sure that makes us human beings?
Stephen KingTags: life animals humanity humanity-and-society
Human beings have capitalized on the silence of animals, just as certain human beings have historically imposed silence on certain other human beings by denying slaves the right to literacy, denying women the right to own property, and denying both the right to vote.
Gary SteinerTags: injustice power animals morality justice silence veganism tragedy oppression violence slavery domestication
Not only are animals unable to avail themselves of language to assert their own rights, but many fewer humans have a clear sense of kinship with animals than have a clear sense of kinship with other humans. Among beings with subjective states of awareness, animals are the untouchable caste, those whom human others would rather not acknowledge, let alone render assistance.
Gary SteinerTags: power animals morality silence tragedy oppression violence invisibility kinship speciesism
We are beasts, you know, beasts risen from the savannas and jungles and forests. We have come down from the trees and up out of the water, but you can never, ever fully remove the feral nature from our psyches.
Yasmine GalenornTags: consciousness animals human-nature interconnection
Kinship with all creatures of the earth, sky, and water was a real and active principle. In the animal and bird world there existed a brotherly feeling that kept us safe among them... The animals had rights - the right of man's protection, the right to live, the right to multiply, the right to freedom, and the right to man's indebtedness. This concept of life and its relations filled us with the joy and mystery of living; it gave us reverence for all life; it made a place for all things in the scheme of existence with equal importance to all.
Luther Standing BearTags: animals animal-rights earth native-american mother-earth
Horses were never wrong. They always did what they did for a reason, and it was up to you to figure it out.
Jeannette WallsTags: life animals horses choices reasons
If ever you feel like an animal among men, be a lion.
Criss JamiTags: inspirational strength man animals courage authority lion nobility boldness uniqueness noble fierceness beast conquering courage-in-life
Eena had thought the whole idea of his picture was absolutely wonderful and had asked Willum what kind of animal she might be. He’d responded after only a moment of thought.
“I think you’d be a crioness.”
“Why is that?”
“Because they can fly.”
“Why would that remind you of me?” She’d been unable to guess his reasoning.
“Because few animals can fly. You can do things others can’t do. Like flying. It’s magic.”
“Oh. How very clever.”
The comparison had left her both impressed and flattered.
Tags: animals fantasy magic flying accomplishments richelle richelle-goodrich eena
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