Henry Stephens Salt quotes
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“The animals you say were 'sent' for man's free use and nutriment. Pray, then, inform me, and be candid, why came they aeons before man did, to spend long centuries on earth. Awaiting their devourer's birth? Those ill-timed chattels, sent from heaven, were, sure, the maddest gift e'er given - 'sent' for man's use (can man believe it?) when there was no man to receive it!”
-- Henry Stephens SaltSource : "Seventy Years Among Savages". Book by Henry Stephens Salt, 1921.
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“It is beyond doubt that the chief motive of Vegetarianism is the humane one. Questions of hygiene and of economy both play their part, and an important part, in a full discussion of food reform; but the feeling which underlies and animates the whole movement is the instinctive horror of butchery, especially the butchery of the more highly organized animals, so human, so near akin to man.”
-- Henry Stephens SaltSource : "The Humanities of Diet". Book by Henry Stephens Salt, 1897.
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“I shall die ... as I have lived, rationalist, socialist, pacifist, and humanitarian.”
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“Religion has never befriended the cause of humaneness. Its monstrous doctrine of eternal punishment and the torture of the damned underlies much of the barbarity with which man has treated man; and the deep division imagined by the Church between the human being, with his immortal soul, and the soulless "beasts", has been responsible for an incalculable sum of cruelty.”
-- Henry Stephens SaltSource : "Seventy Years Among Savages". Book by Henry Stephens Salt, 1921.
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“I shall die as I have lived, rationalist, socialist, pacifist, and humanitarian.”
-- Henry Stephens SaltSource : "Henry Salt, Humanitarian Reformer and Man of Letters". Book by George Hendrick, 1977.
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“I advance no exaggerated or fanciful claim for Vegetarianism. It is not, as some have asserted, a "panacea" for human ills; it is something much more rational - an essential part of the modern humanitarian movement, which can make no true progress without it. Vegetarianism is the diet of the future, as flesh-food is the diet of the past.”
-- Henry Stephens SaltSource : "The Humanities of Diet". Book by Henry Stephens Salt, 1897.
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