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- The more we learn of the true nature of non-human animals, especially those with complex brains and corresponding complex social behavior, the more ethical concerns are raised regarding their use in the service of man -- whether this be in entertainment, as "pets," for food, in research laboratories, or any of the other uses to which we subject them.
- Jane Goodall (1934 - )
- Anyone who tries to improve the lives of animals invariably comes in for criticism from those who believe such efforts are misplaced in a world of suffering humanity.
- Jane Goodall (1934 - )
- If you look through all the different cultures. Right from the earliest, earliest days with the animistic religions, we have sought to have some kind of explanation for our life, for our being, that is outside of our humanity.
- Jane Goodall (1934 - )
- Yet I do fear thy nature; it is too full o' the milk of human kindness.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Macbeth, Act I, sc. 5
- Many species reciprocate, but only humans gossip, and much of what we gossip about is the vale of other people as partners for reciprocal relationships.
- Jonathan Haidt, The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom, 2005
- The perversity of the human spirit is such that when a young lady longs for one specific partner, every other partner counts for nothing.
- Monica Fairview, Darcy Cousins, 2010
- A curious part of the human psyche is that the moment that a person presumed to be in danger is discovered to be safe, everyone's anxiety turns into anger.
- Monica Fairview, Darcy Cousins, 2010
- There's nothing like a gleam of humor to reassure you that a fellow human being is ticking inside a strange face.
- Eva Hoffman
- He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.
- Harold Wilson (1916 - 1995), Speech to the Consultive Assembly of the Council of Europe, Strasbourg, France, January 23, 1967
- I know nothing grander, better exercise, better digestion, more positive proof of the past, the triumphant result of faith in human kind, than a well-contested American national election.
- Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892), Democratic Vistas
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