Those who are familiar with ancient folklore, or are up above the rest of us a moral notch or two, kill "respectfully" by offering prayers or apologies, in the hope that animals will "offer themselves" up to be voluntarily killed. However, it is a sad fact that no animal cares if those who might eat them invent reasons to justify their acts. —Bernd Heinrich More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I am a vegetarian. I'm not strict. I eat fish. And duck, but they're nearly fish, aren't they? . . . And pigs, cows, sheep, anything that lives near water. I'm like a postmodern vegetarian. I eat meat ironically. —Bill Bailey More about this quote Tags: food irony vegetarianism water Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency. —W. Somerset Maugham More about this quote Tags: sacrifice principles speed expediency Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Children lack morality, but they also lack fake morality. —Mignon McLaughlin More about this quote Tags: children morality Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Of course I lie to people. But I lie altruistically — for our mutual good. The lie is the basic building block of good manners. That may seem mildly shocking to a moralist — but then what isn't? —Quentin Crisp More about this quote Tags: truth shock manners lying Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We grow with years more fragile in body, but morally stouter, and can throw off the chill of a bad conscience almost at once. —Logan Pearsall Smith More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am. —Joseph Baretti More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The end is nothing, the road is all. —Willa Cather More about this quote Tags: journey path destination Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Beyond a certain point, the whole universe becomes a continuous process of initiation. —Robert Anton Wilson More about this quote Tags: universe beginnings process Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It is not the conscious changes made in their lives by men and women — a new job, a new town, a divorce — which really shape them, like the chapter headings in a biography, but a long, slow mutation of emotion, hidden, all-penetrative; something by which they may be so taken up that the practical outward changes of their lives in the world, noted with surprise, scandal, or envy by others, pass almost unnoticed by themselves. —Nadine Gordimer More about this quote Tags: attention progress aging change emotion surprise distraction Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time. —Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. More about this quote Tags: time age shock getting old Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Some people change when they see the light, others when they feel the heat. —Caroline Schoeder More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
You wake up one day and say, "You know what, I don't think I ever need to sleep or have sex again." Congratulations, you're ready to have children. —Ray Romano More about this quote Tags: children parenthood sex parenting sleep Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
What did we care . . . where we sat or how we lived, when youth throbbed hot in our veins, and our souls were all aflame with the possibilities of life? —Arthur Conan Doyle More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Our parents got divorced when we were kids, and it was kind of cool. We got to go to divorce court with them. It was like a game show. My mom won the house and car. We were all excited. My dad got some luggage. —Tom Arnold More about this quote Tags: perspective childhood divorce excitement separation Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email