Immanuel Kant Quotes
Cruelty to animals is contrary to man's duty to himself, because it deadens in him the feeling of sympathy for their sufferings, and thus a natural tendency that is very useful to morality in relation to other human beings is weakened.
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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.
Natalie Jeremijenko
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Stage and film are just two wildly different animals. Why compare the two?
Bebe Neuwirth
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There is something fascinating about every human being. The question is how much they're willing to divulge.
Nathaniel Rich
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Cruelty is not a literary value.
Salman Rushdie
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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.
Yann Martel
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I think I've become more comfortable about being a human being.
Cameron Diaz
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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.
Laura Mennell
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I've grown so much, not just as an actor, but as a human being.
Aaron Paul
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You really have to create everything in order to come away with a full human being on screen.
Samantha Mathis
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I have always loved animals since I was very young.
Nafisa Joseph
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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.
Edith Widder
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Having my animals or my children with me exorcises that feeling of not being wanted.
Eartha Kitt
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A human being is a deciding being.
Viktor E. Frankl
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I love shooting guns. Not at people or animals, but I love shooting blanks!
Maggie Q
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I don't think Osama is a Muslim. I don't think Osama is a human being.
Hamid Karzai
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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.
Ingrid Newkirk
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When I need to cry, I think of very sad things, mostly about animals.
Quvenzhane Wallis
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Heaven has given human beings three things to balance the odds of life: hope, sleep, and laughter.
Immanuel Kant
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Oh, the shortcomings and inconsistency of the average human being, especially when this human being is a man trying to manage women's affairs!
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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It's a big tree, but it has ramified and exfoliated, ... would be an enormous disruption.
Charles Fried
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Cruelty to animals is contrary to man's duty to himself, because it deadens in him the feeling of sympathy for their sufferings, and thus a natural tendency that is very useful to morality in relation to other human beings is weakened.
Immanuel Kant