07-08-2022, 10:59 AM
'Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.'
"The less a man knows the bigger the noise he makes and the higher the salary he commands.ÔÇØ
ÔÇ£Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.ÔÇØ
"Man is a religious animal. He is the only religious animal. He is the only animal that has the 'True Religion' - several of them! He is the only animal that loves his neighbour as himself but cuts his throat if his theology isn't straight. He has made a graveyard of the globe in trying his honest best to smooth his brother's path to happiness and heaven.."
Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it...
"It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions...
The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot."
I am not interested to know whether experimentation produces results that are profitable to the human race or doesn't...The pain which it inflicts upon unconsenting animals is the basis of my enmity toward it, and it is to me sufficient justification of the enmity without looking further...
In studying the traits and dispositions of the so-called lower animals, and contrasting them with man's, I find the result humiliating to me."
"The higher animals have no religion. And we are told that they are going to be left out in the Hereafter. I wonder why? It seems questionable taste."
Mark Twain (1835-1910).
"The less a man knows the bigger the noise he makes and the higher the salary he commands.ÔÇØ
ÔÇ£Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.ÔÇØ
"Man is a religious animal. He is the only religious animal. He is the only animal that has the 'True Religion' - several of them! He is the only animal that loves his neighbour as himself but cuts his throat if his theology isn't straight. He has made a graveyard of the globe in trying his honest best to smooth his brother's path to happiness and heaven.."
Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it...
"It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions...
The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot."
I am not interested to know whether experimentation produces results that are profitable to the human race or doesn't...The pain which it inflicts upon unconsenting animals is the basis of my enmity toward it, and it is to me sufficient justification of the enmity without looking further...
In studying the traits and dispositions of the so-called lower animals, and contrasting them with man's, I find the result humiliating to me."
"The higher animals have no religion. And we are told that they are going to be left out in the Hereafter. I wonder why? It seems questionable taste."
Mark Twain (1835-1910).
in order to be old & wise, you must first be young & stupid. (I'm still working on that.)