Carolyn Heilbrun (Carolyn Gold Heilbrun) Quotes
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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 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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I love shooting guns. Not at people or animals, but I love shooting blanks!
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Our expression and our words never coincide, which is why the animals don't understand us.
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Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
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Actually, I don't like dogs. I'm from Morocco, and people there don't like animals.
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I'm hoping one day to open my own shelter. I would be the person with the three-legged dog. I just love animals more than people; I really do.
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The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.
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I have made hundreds of dives in submersibles, with each dive holding the promise of seeing an organism or a behavior that no one has ever seen before. But I have always wondered about the animals and behaviors that we're not seeing because our bright lights and loud thrusters scare them away.
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The paintings may communicate even better because people are lazy and they can look at a painting with less effort than they can read a poem.
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We need to find ways to communicate with each other.
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Mistress of love or of hate, occult science can dispense paradise or hell at its pleasure to human hearts; it disposes of all forms and confers beauty or ugliness; with the wand of Circe it changes men into brutes and animals alternately into men.
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There is today a frightful disappearance of living species, be they plants or animals. And it's clear that the density of human beings has become so great, if I can say so, that they have begun to poison themselves. And the world in which I am finishing my existence is no longer a world that I like.
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I was aware of what animals go through because I had driven animals to slaughter and I'd killed animals. And I was aware that there were certain ethical issues, but they weren't preying on my mind very heavily.
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If some animals are good at hunting and others are suitable for hunting, then the Gods must clearly smile on hunting.
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I've always talked a lot on stage - I really wanted to communicate my ideas and when you're playing at a lot of shitty punk clubs they don't have good PAs and so no one knows what you're singing about.
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Let us remember with humility the loneliness of being man in a universe we do not understand and the vulnerability of the human condition. The animals could do very well without us, but we cannot do without them.
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Dad's funeral was standing room only; most in attendance were strangers to me. At the back, a lone Marine stood silently, then left. People told me he'd saved their life or helped them in their darkest hour.
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We need not wait for the world to become more mystical; the world is mystical. Our problem is not that the world lacks magic; our problem is that we don't believe in its magic. We do not show up fully for life, and then wonder why life is not showing up more fully for us.
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The Great Tao flows everywhere, to the left and to the right, all things depend on it to exist, and it does not abandon them. To its accomplishments it lays no claims. It loves and nourished all things, but does not lord it over them.
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Whether animals admit it or not, they and I communicate.
