Quote by Ingrid Newkirk
All of us in society are supposed to believe that cruelty to anima

All of us in society are supposed to believe that cruelty to animals is wrong and that it is a good thing to prevent needless suffering. So if that is true, how can meat be acceptable under any but the most extraordinary circumstances, such as perhaps roasting the bird who died flying into a window? – Ingrid Newkirk

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I hope SeaWorld is exploring how, like Ringling, it can get out of the wild animal business. – Ingrid Newkirk

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Hope
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Although we have, in theory, abolished human slavery, recognized womens rights, and stopped child labor, we continue to enslave other species who, if we simply pay attention, show quite clearly that they experience parental love, pain, and the desire for freedom, just as we do. – Ingrid Newkirk

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Experience
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Why go for a costly, sickly, mass-produced purebred when shelters are full of one-of-a-kind mixed breeds who are literally dying for a home? – Ingrid Newkirk

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Home
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Companies that pollute should be taxed so that a products cost to society is reflected in the price of that product. – Eliot Spitzer

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In the society, where people are just parts in a larger machine, individuals are unable to develop fully. – Friedrich Schiller

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If you have to put someone on a pedestal, put teachers. They are societys heroes. – Guy Kawasaki

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In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning. – Carl Sandburg, New York Post, 9 September 1960

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After a few years of marriage, a man can look right at a woman without seeing her — and a woman can see right through a man without looking at him. – Helen Rowland

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A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward. – Franklin D. Roosevelt, radio speech, 26 October 1939

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Self-confidence is either a petty pride in our own narrowness, or the realization of our duty and privilege as Gods children. – Phillips Brooks

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This age thinks better of a gilded fool Than of a threadbare saint in wisdoms school. – Thomas Dekker

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