Jonathan Balcombe Quotes

#1. Most bloggers who rise above the clutter are quite often prolific -they work hard, not just writing content but networking, engaging in Social Media and more.

Darren Rowse

#2. I think we're insecure about our self-imposed spot at the top of the pyramid of life. New studies are continually undermining our superiority complex and forcing us to reconsider our relationship to animals.

Jonathan Balcombe

#3. There is no greater love potion than regular coffee, brewed his own. When a man tries it, he was not going anywhere.

Sophia Loren

#4. Anyone who's lived with companion cats or dogs knows that they are unique individuals with their own personalities. I think animals' secret to getting along is that they are not burdened by an ego.

Jonathan Balcombe

#5. Kill one man, and you are murderer

Jean Rostand

#6. The logical conclusion to a compassionate and respectful relationship to sentient animals is that we stop eating them.

Jonathan Balcombe

#7. For everything I wished were different about the old man, I found comfort in just as many things that never changed.

Craig Lancaster

#8. We have to realize that treating animals well is in our best interests, too. Cruelty is indivisible; when you are cruel to an animal, you are training yourself to be cruel to people, too (and vice versa).

Jonathan Balcombe

#9. Humbling as it may be, for all our vaunted brain power, humans emerge as nothing special in the sensory sweepstakes. Our senses of vision, hearing, smell, taste, and touch are middling, at best.

Jonathan Balcombe

#10. From my earliest memories I was fascinated by animals. I would explore my backyard for insects and gaze at anthills until my elbows became sore. When I was 8, my mother bought me a book of North American birds and I've been keen on birdwatching since.

Jonathan Balcombe

#11. I think ultimately what makes the show is not the reality but the drama.

Michael Loceff

#12. There's a civic nationalism in Britain and dozens of other countries.

Michael Ignatieff

#13. I sense that, without sensitivity to physical pain and pleasure, man would not have known self-interest, and consequently know just or unjust acts. Thus, physical sensitivity and self-interest are the authors of all justice.

Jonathan Balcombe

#14. As the corruption of our nature shews the absolute necessity of regeneration, so the absolute necessity of regeneration plainly proves the corruption of our nature; for why should a man need a second birth, if his nature were not quite marred in the first birth?

Thomas Boston

#15. The more we learn, the more questions arise.

Jonathan Balcombe

#16. When I watch animals, I realize I am watching individual with lives that matter, to them. It isn't just another chicken or another mouse. She is that particular hen, autonomous and unique. He is that particular mouse with a unique life and social identity.

Jonathan Balcombe

#17. When you're part of the opposition you want to stay. It's part of your identity. You're useless if you leave. You feel like you have failed.

Masha Gessen

#18. The difference is that these young people take it for granted that they're going to get whatever they want, and that we almost always took it for granted that we shouldn't. Only, I wonder - the thing one's so certain of in advance: can it ever make one's heart beat as wildly?

Edith Wharton

#19. She walked to the door in her fucking underwear, and opened it a crack before turning and sprinting into her bedroom, leaving me to greet the intruders. What in the actual fuck.

Christina Lauren

#20. We're just two completely confused souls, scared of a much unwanted yet crucial goodbye.

Colleen Hoover

#21. Humankind won't find peace as long as we're treating feeling animals as if they were so many blocks of wood.

Jonathan Balcombe

#22. Studies show that people who abuse animals are far more likely to engage in interpersonal violence. Violent crime rates tend to be higher in areas where slaughterhouses are related, even when controlling for other variables.

Jonathan Balcombe

#23. Careful, human." Grimalkin appeared on the corner of the stage, overshadowed by the dead chimera. "Do not lose your heart to a faery prince. It never ends well.

Julie Kagawa

#24. I ... must continue to strive for more knowledge and more power, though the new knowledge always contradicts the old and the new power is the destruction of the fools who misuse it.

George Bernard Shaw

#25. People don't like change when it comes to changing their own lifestyle habits.

Jonathan Balcombe