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war outlook-on-life world
If the whole world went vegan, there would be less war. How you eat determines your mood and your outlook on life. Alexandra Paul
war jumping hatred
You can't rewind war. It spools on, and on, and on, looping and jumping, distorted and cracked with age, and the stories contract until only the nuggets of hatred remain and no one can even remember, or imagine, why the war was organized in the first place. Alexandra Fuller
war fighting men
The land itself, of course, was careless of its name. It still is. You can call it what you like, fight all the wars you want in its name. Change its name altogether if you like. The land is still unblinking under the African sky. It will absorb white man's blood and the blood of African men, it will absorb blood from slaughtered cattle and the blood from a woman's birthing with equal thirst. It doesn't care. Alexandra Fuller
war fighting wish
Whoever wishes peace among peoples must fight statism. Ludwig von Mises
war competition battle
It is merely a metaphor to call competition competitive war, or simply, war. The function of battle is destruction; of competition, construction. Ludwig von Mises
war government asking
Those who are asking for more government interference are asking ultimately for more compulsion and less freedom. Ludwig von Mises
war father essence
Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking. Peace and not war is the father of all things. Ludwig von Mises
war victory well-being
Wars of aggression are popular nowadays with those nations convinced that only victory and conquest could improve their material well-being. Ludwig von Mises
war father essence
War is harmful, not only to the conquered but to the conqueror. Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking. Peace and not war is the father of all things. Only economic action has created the wealth around us; labor, not the profession of arms, brings happiness. Peace builds, war destroys. Ludwig von Mises
men united
We are united with all life that is in nature. Man can no longer live his life for himself alone. Albert Schweitzer
men thinking matter
The thinking man must oppose all cruelties no matter how deeply rooted in tradition or surrounded by a halo. Albert Schweitzer
men problem great-men
For us the great men are not those who solved the problems, but those whodiscovered them. Albert Schweitzer
men thinking evil
Once a man recognizes himself as a being surrounded by other beings in this world and begins to respect his life and take it to the highest value, he becomes a thinking being. Then he values other lives and experiences them as part of his own life. With that, his goal is to help everyone take their life to the highest value; anything which limits or destroys a life is evil. That is morality. That is how men are related to the world around them. Albert Schweitzer
men thinking bears
Cold completely introspective logic places a philosopher on the road to the abstract. Out of this empty, artificial act of thinking there can result, of course, nothing which bears on the relation of man to himself, and to the universe. Albert Schweitzer
men doe musician
Pablo Casals is a great musician in all he does: a cellist without equal, and extraordinary conductor and composer with something to say. I have been profoundly impressed by all I have heard of his work, but he is a musician of this stature because he is also a great man. Albert Schweitzer
men thinking giving
The man who has become a thinking being feels a compulsion to give every will-to-live the same reverence for life that he gives to his own. He experiences that other life in his own. Albert Schweitzer
men destiny humans
The destiny of man is to be more and more human. Albert Schweitzer
men perfection personality
Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality. Albert Schweitzer
animal decision environmental
For me, going vegan was an ethical and environmental decision. I'm doing the right thing by the animals. Alexandra Paul
animal eight two
Once, I discovered the skulls of two impala rams, their horns locked into an irreversible figure-of-eight; the two animals had been trapped in combat, latched to each other during the battle of the rut. The harder they had pulled to escape from each other, the more intractably stuck they were, until they had fallen exhausted, to their knees, in an embrace of hatred that had killed them both. Alexandra Fuller
animal based biology happening interested neglect surprising time
I've always been interested in animal behavior, and I keep reading about it because it's so surprising all the time - so many things are happening around us that we neglect to look at. Part of the passion I have for biology is based on this wonderment. Isabella Rossellini
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I grew up in a family of filmmakers, so I always wanted to make films about animals, especially comical films. Something about animals amuses me. And they have a great mystery. It's the same mystique some people might feel looking at the stars or the ocean. Isabella Rossellini
animal men thinking
The thinking man must oppose all cruel customs no matter how deeply rooted in tradition or surrounded by a halo. We need a boundless ethics which will include the animals also. My life is full of meaning to me. The life around me must be full of significance to it. If I want others to respect my life, then I must respect the other life I see however strange it may be to mine. Ethics in our western world has hitherto been largely limited to the relation of man to man... but that is a limited ethics. Albert Schweitzer
animal sacred plant
Don't stop to ask whether the animal or plant you meet deserves your sympathy, or how much it feels, or even whether it can feel at all: respect it and consider all life sacred. Albert Schweitzer
animal compassion circles
We need a boundless ethic, one which will include the animals, too. Until we extend the circle of his compassions to all living things, we will not find peace. Albert Schweitzer
animal men thinking-man
A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him. Albert Schweitzer
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Man is the only creature in the animal kingdom that sits in judgment on the work of the Creator and finds it bad - including himself and Nature Elbert Hubbard