Caryl Chessman (Caryl Whittier Chessman) Quotes

It is my hope and my belief that you will be able to report that I died with dignity, without animal fear and without bravado. I owe that much to myself.

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• Most of the time, those who use animals in experiments justify that use by pointing to alleged benefits to human and animal health and the supposed necessity of using animals to obtain those benefits.

  

  Gary L. Francione
  • Time
  • Health
  • Animal

• There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with others however humble.

  

  Washington Irving
  • Real
  • Humble
  • Dignity

• Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Man
  • Animal
  • Act

• Those who insist on the dignity of their office show they have not deserved it.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • Show
  • Office
  • Dignity

• White supremacy is a very, very popular and trenchant belief in this country's history and heritage.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Country
  • History
  • Popular

• When I sit at that typewriter, I have to be frightened of what I'm trying to do. I'm frightened by my own belief that I can actually get a story down on paper.

  

  Barry Lopez
  • Trying
  • Belief
  • I Can

• Love and dignity cannot share the same abode.

  

  Ovid
  • Love
  • For Her
  • Dignity

• The petty man is eager to make boasts, yet desires that others should believe in him. He enthusiastically engages in deception, yet wants others to have affection for him. He conducts himself like an animal, yet wants others to think well of him.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • Believe
  • Man
  • Animal

• Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active.

  

  Edith Hamilton
  • Faith
  • Belief
  • Active

• A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Animal
  • Ears
  • Fence

• Here was irrefutable proof that he was using the Holocaust to speak of the extermination of animal life. Doomed creatures that could not speak for themselves were being given the voice of a most articulate people who had been similarly doomed. He was seeing the tragic fate of animals through the tragic fate of Jews. The Holocaust as allegory.

  

  Yann Martel
  • People
  • Life
  • Animal

• What if I am an aficionado of bullfights and I think, contrary to the animal cruelty people, that they ennoble both beast and man. I would not be able to market videos showing people how exciting a bullfight.

  

  Antonin Scalia
  • People
  • Animal

• I believe if you're prepared to kill the animal, you're allowed to eat it.

  

  Douglas Booth
  • Believe
  • Animal

• A tool is usually more simple than a machine; it is generally used with the hand, whilst a machine is frequently moved by animal or steam power.

  

  Charles Babbage
  • Power
  • Hand
  • Simple

• Some people say, 'Maude Apatow is my spirit animal.' I get that a lot. They tweet it to me.

  

  Maude Apatow
  • People
  • Animal

• I wanted to use what I was, to be what I was born to be - not to have a 'career', but to be that straightforward obvious unmistakable animal, a writer.

  

  Cynthia Ozick
  • Career
  • Animal

• For decades I have tried to peel back the layers of mystery surrounding many marine creatures, though most have held tightly to their secrets. One animal that keeps me pondering is the shark. Spellbound by these enigmatic animals since I first encountered them in New England, I never tire of watching their special blend of power and grace.

  

  Brian Skerry
  • Power
  • Animal
  • Marine

• If you have this enormous talent, it's got you by the balls, it's a demon. You can't be a family man and a husband and a caring person and be that animal. Dickens wasn't that nice a guy.

  

  Dustin Hoffman
  • Family
  • Guy
  • Nice

• Science reserves the highest reward for those of you who disprove our most cherished beliefs. At any moment someone from any walk of life could come forward and be responsible for a complete revision of our view of everything.

  

  Ann Druyan
  • Life
  • Science
  • Moments

• It is freedom, it is particularity, it is solitude that we are aiming at, and not Evil for its own sake

  

  Jean-Paul Sartre
  • Freedom
  • Evil
  • Solitude

• I'm definitely capable of just enjoying riding my bike these days.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Bike
  • Capable
  • Riding

• Part of the advantage, and part of the result of trying to be a producer and director, are the practical things, you find. It's so advantageous to go to a place that you already have a feel for, a literal and spiritual familiarity.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • Trying
  • Spiritual
  • Find

• Sometimes I read about someone saying with great authority that animals have no intentions and no feelings, and I wonder, 'Doesn't this guy have a dog?'

  

  Frans de Waal
  • Great
  • Guy
  • Wonder

• It is my hope and my belief that you will be able to report that I died with dignity, without animal fear and without bravado. I owe that much to myself.

  

  Caryl Chessman
  • Animal
  • Belief
  • Dignity