There is always a well-known solution to every human problem—neat, plausible, and wrong. —H. L. Mencken More about this quote Tags: humanity society problem solving Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk? —Laurence J. Peter More about this quote Tags: humor personality Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It isn't the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it's the pebble in your shoe. —Muhammad Ali More about this quote Tags: life endurance Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The rooms of his apartment were full with the dog home again, convalescing. He was satisfied to know, even when she was out of sight, that somewhere in the apartment she was sleeping or eating or sitting watchfully. It was family, he guessed, more or less. Did most people want a house of living things at night, to know that in the dark around them other warm bodies slept? Such a house could even be the whole world. —Lydia Millet More about this quote Tags: presence home comfort Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Very little of the great cruelty shown by men can really be attributed to cruel instinct. Most of it comes from thoughtlessness or inherited habit.The roots of cruelty, therefore, are not so much strong as widespread.But the time must come when inhumanity protected by custom and thoughtlessness will succumb before humanity championed by thought. —Albert Schweitzer More about this quote Tags: habit cruelty instincts thoughtlessness inhumanity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I believe that animals have been talking to human beings ever since we were all made and put into this world. —Barbara Woodhouse More about this quote Tags: humanity communication animals earth Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
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 Steiner More about this quote Tags: humanity silence rights slavery Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There are mystical, unbreakable bonds between all members of the natural world including humans and animals. Whether or not we remember or acknowledge this relatedness, it still exists. —Elizabeth S. Eiler More about this quote Tags: humanity nature animals interconnectedness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contained. … They do not sweat and whine about their condition, they do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins, they do not make me sick discussing their duty to God, not one is dissatisfied, not one is demented with the mania of owning things, not one kneels to another nor to his kind that lived thousands of years ago, not one is respectable or unhappy over the whole earth. —Walt Whitman More about this quote Tags: life God peace animals whining Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
In order to maintain a well-balanced perspective, the person who has a dog to worship him should also have a cat to ignore him. —Peterborough Examiner More about this quote Tags: dogs cats worship ignoring Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Man, do not pride yourself on your superiority to the animals, for they are without sin, while you, with all your greatness, you defile the earth wherever you appear and leave an ignoble trail behind you — and that is true, alas, for almost every one of us! —Fyodor Dostoyevsky More about this quote Tags: sin pride greatness animals earth Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Every living creature on the earth is special. You want to be the one that puts an end to one of them? —Sue Monk Kidd More about this quote Tags: life death responsibility earth Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
People who let their dogs and cats have litters in order to show their children the “miracle of birth” should come witness the “miracle of death” performed in the back rooms of animal shelters all over the country. —Phyllis Wright More about this quote Tags: politics life death dogs cats birth animal shelters Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Practice love first on animals; they are more sensitive. —George Gurdjieff More about this quote Tags: love relationships sensitivity animals Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I am sometimes asked, “Why do you spend so much of your time and money talking about kindness to animals when there is so much cruelty to men?” I answer, “I am working at the roots.” —George T. Angell More about this quote Tags: kindness time money animals cruelty Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email