Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
My ahimsa is my own. I am not able to accept in its entirety the doctrine of non-killing of animals.
Quotes to Explore
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Because animals are property, we consider as 'humane treatment' that we would regard as torture if it were inflicted on humans.
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In Yellowstone National Park, there are more 'do not feed the animals' signs than there are animals you might wish to feed.
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Stage and film are just two wildly different animals. Why compare the two?
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I like using animals because they help suspend my reader's disbelief. We have certain ideas about dentists. We don't have many ideas about rhinoceros dentists.
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The harming of animals for any reason is shameful, but torturing them for mere vanity is senseless. Slaughtering animals for their fur or harming them for cosmetic purposes is disgusting and not worth the perfect shade of lipstick.
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I have always loved animals since I was very young.
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One of the things that's frustrated me as a deep-sea explorer is how many animals there probably are in the ocean that we know nothing about because of the way we explore the ocean.
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Having my animals or my children with me exorcises that feeling of not being wanted.
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I love shooting guns. Not at people or animals, but I love shooting blanks!
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Animals aren't any better equipped to survive an emergency than humans are. Few people missed the fact that after Hurricane Katrina, people died because buses and emergency shelters wouldn't allow their animals.
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When I need to cry, I think of very sad things, mostly about animals.
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If all consciousness is subject to essential laws in a manner similar to that in which spatial reality is subject to mathematical laws, then these essential laws will be of most fertile significance in investigating facts of the conscious life of human and brute animals.
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Making lasting gifts for animals in our estate plans is perhaps the single most important thing we can do to ensure animals have the strongest possible voice for their protection.
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I've been out all over the world tranquilizing animals.
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Our expression and our words never coincide, which is why the animals don't understand us.
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Animals in the wild are lean, and I think we should be too.
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The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.
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In Los Angeles, you drive around, and you're coming back from a club or something, and all of a sudden, you'll encounter a coyote. And they're very lean, hungry-looking animals.
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But I wondered, how would I feel about killing someone? Now I know. It’s no big deal.
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I collect stuffed animals, and toy stores make me happy.
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I'm also a big Bob Dylan fan. The songs on The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan - which is one of his best early albums - they grow out of some of his difficulties with Suze Rotolo, and "Hard Rain," people say it had to do with the Cuban missile crisis - probably not. He denied it. I believe him, but it certainly had to do with the time.
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As full of spirit as the month of May, and as gorgeous as the sun in Midsummer.
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My ahimsa is my own. I am not able to accept in its entirety the doctrine of non-killing of animals.
