Gary Steiner quotes

“Not only are animals unable to avail themselves of language to assert their own rights, but many fewer humans have a clear sense of kinship with animals than have a clear sense of kinship with other humans. Among beings with subjective states of awareness, animals are the untouchable caste, those whom human others would rather not acknowledge, let alone render assistance.”
-- Gary Steiner

Source : Gary Steiner (2012). “Animals and the Moral Community: Mental Life, Moral Status, and Kinship”, p.138, Columbia University Press

#Animal Quotes #Rights Quotes #Language Quotes

“To be ethical is to endeavor to find one's proper place in the larger scheme of things rather than to seek to assert human superiority over the natural world.”
-- Gary Steiner

Source : Gary Steiner (2012). “Animals and the Moral Community: Mental Life, Moral Status, and Kinship”, p.122, Columbia University Press

#World Quotes #Ethical Quotes #Natural Quotes

“Human beings have capitalized on the silence of animals, just as certain human beings have historically imposed silence on certain other human beings by denying slaves the right to literacy, denying women the right to own property, and denying both the right to vote.”
-- Gary Steiner

Source : Gary Steiner (2012). “Animals and the Moral Community: Mental Life, Moral Status, and Kinship”, p.138, Columbia University Press

#Animal Quotes #Silence Quotes #Vote Quotes

“Animals keep you company when you're really lonely. It helps because when you have a friend around who always likes you no matter what - it's harder to feel bad or down.”

“I'm a vegetarian and very much active in regards to how I feel about animal rights and protecting animals and giving animals a voice. But at the same time, I appreciate and respect other people's decisions to eat meat. The only thing that I hope is that people are educated, that they're aware, that they're living a conscious lifestyle.”

“As to women, the Islamic faith has given women rights that are equal to or more than the rights given them in the Old Testament and the Bible.”

“It can hardly be argued that either students or teachers shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate.”

Source : Tinker v. Des Moines Indep. Community School Dist. (1969)

“The true Tarot is symbolism; it speaks no other language and offers no other signs.”

Source : A. E. Waite (2012). “The Pictorial Key to the Tarot”, p.2, Courier Corporation

“Music is all about transporting people; speaking a language which languages fail to express.”

Source : Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. May 19, 2014.

“My first language was shy. It's only by having been thrust into the limelight that I have learned to cope with my shyness.”

“Act averse to nasty language and partial to fruity tea.”

“When a monkey nibbles on a weenis, it's funny in any language.”

“The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.”