If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons. —C. S. Lewis More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If one person is unkind to an animal, it is considered to be cruelty, but where a lot of people are unkind to animals, especially in the name of commerce, the cruelty is condoned and, once sums of money are at stake, will be defended to the last by otherwise intelligent people. —Ruth Harrison More about this quote Tags: kindness money animals cruelty commerce Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
What, is the jay more precious than the lark because his feathers are more beautiful? —William Shakespeare More about this quote Tags: beauty preciousness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
When it comes to having a central nervous system and the ability to feel pain, hunger, and thirst, a rat is a pig is a dog is a boy. —Ingrid Newkirk More about this quote Tags: hunger pain animals Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There's a schizoid quality to our relationship with animals, in which sentiment and brutality exist side by side. Half the dogs in America will receive Christmas presents this year, yet few of us pause to consider the miserable life of the pig — an animal easily as intelligent as a dog — that becomes the Christmas ham. —Michael Pollan More about this quote Tags: dogs brutality animals Christmas Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It is an important and popular fact that things are not always what they seem. For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much — the wheel, New York, wars, and so on — whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man — for precisely the same reasons. —Douglas Adams More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something. —Unknown More about this quote Tags: listening Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
My parents taught me how to listen to everybody before I made up my own mind. When you listen, you learn. You absorb like a sponge-and your life becomes so much better than when you are just trying to be listened to all the time. —Wilson Mizner More about this quote Tags: listening Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
As I get older, I've learned to listen to people rather than accuse them of things. —Po Bronson More about this quote Tags: listening Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly. —Plutarch More about this quote Tags: listening Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It is the province of knowledge to speak and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen. —Oliver Wendell Holmes More about this quote Tags: listening Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Maybe I wanted to hear it so badly that my ears betrayed my mind in order to secure my heart. —Margaret Cho More about this quote Tags: listening Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A good listener is a good talker with a sore throat. —Katharine Whitehorn More about this quote Tags: listening Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Listen. Do not have an opinion while you listen because frankly, your opinion doesn't hold much water outside of Your Universe. Just listen. Listen until their brain has been twisted like a dripping towel and what they have to say is all over the floor. —Hugh Elliott More about this quote Tags: listening Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble. —Frank Tyger More about this quote Tags: listening Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email