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“It is a principle of nature to hate those whom you have injured.”
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“Instruments of coercion, once created, have a tendency to find their own natural masters.”
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“Reality is not simply there, it does not simply exist: it must be sought out and won.”
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“Eighty-five percent of recorded species live in the terrestrial realm, and the majority of these, some 850,000, are arthropods (that is, insects, spiders, and crustaceans). Most of the arthropod species are insects, and almost half of these are beetles, a fact that is said to have inspired a famous epigram from the British biologist J.B.S. Haldane. On being asked, one day, by some clerical gentlemen what his study of the natural world had revealed to him about God. Haldane is said to have replied that it indicated that He had "an inordinate fondness of beetles.”
― The Sixth Extinction: Patterns of Life and the Future of Humankind
― The Sixth Extinction: Patterns of Life and the Future of Humankind
“Let's just call things what they are. When a man's love of finery clouds his moral judgment, that is vanity. When he lets a demanding palate make his moral choices, that is gluttony. When he ascribes the divine will to his own whims, that is pride. And when he gets angry at being reminded of animal suffering that his own daily choices might help avoid, that is moral cowardice.”
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