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“We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch. Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit.”
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“Animals are my friends...and I don't eat my friends.”
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“The question is not, "Can they reason?" nor, "Can they talk?" but "Can they suffer?”
― The Principles of Morals and Legislation
― The Principles of Morals and Legislation
“The assumption that animals are without rights and the illusion that our treatment of them has no moral significance is a positively outrageous example of Western crudity and barbarity. Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.”
― The Basis of Morality
― The Basis of Morality
“If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.”
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Emily’s 2022 Year in Books
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