Alexandra Harney quotes

“The line we draw between animals that are socially acceptable and those we find repugnant can be awfully arbitrary.”
-- Alexandra Harney

Source : "A Love Story About... A Rat Named Mr. Tiffany" by Alexandra Harney, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 9, 2013.

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“To be nonviolent to human beings and to be a killer or enemy of the poor animals is Satan's philosophy. In this age there is always enmity against poor animals, and therefore the poor creatures are always anxious. The reaction of the poor animals is being forced on human society, and therefore there is always strain of cold or hot war between men, individually, collectively or nationally.”

“Indulgence in animal killing for the taste of the tongue is the grossest kind of ignorance”

“Man is not the only animal who labors; but he is the only one who improves his workmanship.”

“Man is a perpetually wanting animal.”

“Fame is a very strange animal.”

“Some, while deploring animal abuses, on the same breath approve 'benefits to humans from certain animal abuses'! Who would criticize the Jewish holocaust or Black slavery, and YET praise the benefits to Germans or Whites??? This convenient ambiguity at the expense of animals is unacceptable!!!”

“I hear it's better to use animal products than synthetics, which are harmful to humans and the earth... but destroying one segment of the creation to allegedly save another is the idea of fools!!!”

“When you have trouble with things—whether it's figuring out whether to push or pull a door or the arbitrary vagaries of the modern computer and electronics industries—it's not your fault. Don't blame yourself: blame the designer.”

Source : "The Design of Everyday Things". Book by Donald Norman, Introduction to the 2002 Edition, p. x, 2002.

“To line only for some unknown future is superficial.”

“For me, there's a fine line between telling a story that's fictional with lots of details and then removing yourself too much from it, so it's bloodless, a little too fictional.”