Bowwow Quotes & Sayings

As a historian, I confess to a certain amusement when I hear the Judeo-Christian tradition praised as the source of our concern for human rights. In fact, the great religious ages were notable for their indifference to human rights in the contemporary sense. They were notorious not only for acquiescence in poverty, inequality, exploitation and oppression but for enthusiastic justifications of slavery, persecution, abandonment of small children, torture, genocide. — Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.

the more familiar a face, letter, number, sound, flavor, brand, or Chinese character becomes, the more we like it. It's true across different cultures and species; even baby chickens prefer the familiar. — Adam M. Grant

No, thats not how it happened ... Mr crepsley dropped. He was impaled on the stakes. He died. And it was awful ... His cries as he writhed there, bleeding and dying, burning and screaming, will stay with me till I die. Maybe I'll even carry them with me after I go. — Darren Shan

I think there's a passion for God like never before. — Michael W. Smith

It seemed to me it would be better to die standing up to a tyrant than to survive as a tool of his will. — Juliet Marillier

I'm walking insecurity. Without all this makeup, I look like a refugee when I get up in the morning ... I generally look like one major bowwow. I mean arf. — Connie Chung

Speciesism is a failure to empathize with those outside one's group. In general, speciesists simply disregard the myriad nonhumans whom humans intentionally hurt and kill. Who cares if millions of mice and rats are vivisected? They're 'only rodents'. What does it matter if billions of chickens live in misery until they die in pain and fear? They're 'just chickens'. They aren't human, so they don't count. Victimizers lack empathy for their victims, but absence of empathy doesn't justify victimization, whether the victims are human or nonhuman. — Joan Dunayer

Success is a decision, not a gift. — Steve Backley