Top 31 Marc Bekoff Quotes
#1. He shrugged. "I don't know either. I can't read Frog-speak.
Ashley Gardner
#2. All animals, including humans, have a right to lives of dignity and respect, without forced intrusions.
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#3. Dreams are difficult to build and easy to destroy.
Seth Godin
#4. Often, the greater our ignorance about something, the greater our resistance to change.
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#5. These enthusiasts often like to hang signs that say "Gone Fishin'" or "Gone Huntin'". But what these slogans really mean is "Gone Killing.
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#6. I worked the Giants win over the Texans earlier this season. The Giants ran the heck out of the ball. Eli Manning rolled out away from Watt just about every time and changed the release point on his passes. The Cowboys have a road map.
Dan Fouts
#7. When animals express their feelings they pour out like water from a spout. Animals' emotions are raw, unfiltered, and uncontrolled. Their joy is the purest and most contagious of joys and their grief the deepest and most devastating. Their passions bring us to our knees in delight and sorrow.
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#9. Emotions are the gifts of our ancestors. We have them and so do other animals. We must never forget this.
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#10. May the Lord open, Janine would have replied, tonelessly, in her transparent voice, her voice of raw egg white.
Margaret Atwood
#11. With my Roman Catholic upbringing, I have a set of principles that serve me well in good times and bad.
Steve Garvey
#12. It's bad biology to rob nonhuman animals of their emotional lives.
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#13. Make ethical choices in what we buy, do, and watch. In a consumer-driven society our individual choices, used collectively for the good of animals and nature, can change the world faster than laws.
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#14. Maintaining a close relationship with the Savior is the only goal Paul would set. He wasn't perfect at it, but he singlemindedly pursued it. And he encourages us to do so today. Life is much simpler when we choose to pursue only one thing - the race before us. Don't look back.
Various
#15. Humans are a part of nature, not apart from nature.
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#16. Let us remember that animals are not mere resources for human consumption. They are splendid beings in their own right, who have evolved alongside us as co-inheritors of all the beauty and abundance of life on this planet
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#17. A reduction of meat consumption by only 10% would result in about 12 million more tons of grain for human consumption. This additional grain could feed all of the humans across the world who starve to death each year- about 60 million people!
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#18. A sure cure for seasickness is to stand underneath a tree.
Spike Milligan
#19. Although other animals may be different from us, this does not make them LESS than us
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#20. Why is it that blood, rather than peace, sells?
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#21. ...rewilding is all about being nice, kind, compassionate, empathic, and harnessing our inborn goodness and optimism. We must all work together at this. It's about time we focus on the good side of human and animal nature. ... nature offers many lessons for kinder society. Blood shouldn't sell.
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#22. Without close and reciprocal relationships with other animal beings, we're alienated from the rich, diverse, and magnificent world in which we live.
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#23. Lacking a shared language, emotions are perhaps our most effective means of cross-species communication. We can share our emotions, we can understand the language of feelings, and that's why we form deep and enduring social bonds with many other beings. Emotions are the glue that binds.
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#24. Some people say they love animals and yet harm them nonetheless; I'm glad those people don't love me.
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#25. I would like to believe that it is, and will continue to be, human compassion for other beings that will result in our giving them the protection they deserve, because of who they are, not because of what they can do for us or because some law tells us what we have to do.
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#27. Animals are not property or "things" but rather living organisms, subjects of a life, who are worthy of our compassion, respect, friendship, and support.
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#28. I didn't want to, even in my imagination, even for a second, to conflate this sophisticated woman with my mother, a woman so frugal and clueless that she had once given me - to have! to know! to wear! - her stretch black lace underwear that had shrunk in the dryer, though I was only ten.
Lorrie Moore
#29. Art hurts. Art urges voyages - and it is easier to stay at home.
Gwendolyn Brooks
#30. Fortune, to show us her power in all things, and to abate our presumption, seeing she could not make fools wise, has made them fortunate.
Michel De Montaigne
#31. We must remain hopeful that a universal ethic of courage, caring, sharing, respect, radical compassion, and love will make a difference even if we do not see the positive results of our efforts ... We can never be too generous or too kind.
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