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.
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Stage and film are just two wildly different animals. Why compare the two?
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There is something fascinating about every human being. The question is how much they're willing to divulge.
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Cruelty is not a literary value.
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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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I think I've become more comfortable about being a human being.
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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've grown so much, not just as an actor, but as a human being.
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You really have to create everything in order to come away with a full human being on screen.
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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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A human being is a deciding being.
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I love shooting guns. Not at people or animals, but I love shooting blanks!
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I don't think Osama is a Muslim. I don't think Osama is a human being.
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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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To discover to the world something which deeply concerns it, and of which it was previously ignorant; to prove to it that it had been mistaken on some vital point of temporal or spiritual interest, is as important a service as a human being can render to his fellow creatures.
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To see the convulsions, agonies and tortures of a poor fellow-creature, whom they cannot restore nor recompense, dying to gratify luxury and tickle callous and rank organs, must require a rocky heart, and a great degree of cruelty and ferocity. I cannot find any great difference between feeding on human flesh and feeding on animal flesh, except custom and practice.
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I believe my office's efforts to educate the public are having a positive effect. We are seeing a larger percentage of charitable donations raised going to support charitable programs.
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To give students the best possible chance to succeed, education must prepare them to handle issues that transcend national boundaries.
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I don't do what you people want. I Do What I Want!
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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.
