Likera Ria Quotes & Sayings

So far as this argument is concerned nonhuman animals and infants and retarded humans are in the same category; and if we use this argument to justify experiments on nonhuman animals we have to ask ourselves whether we are also prepared to allow experiments on human infants and retarded adults; and if we make a distinction between animals and these humans, on what basis can we do it, other than a bare-faced - and morally indefensible - preference for members of our own species? — Peter Singer

It is almost axiomatic that the best conversationalist is really the best listener. — Arlene Francis

It was just that he was fun in such an exhausting way because, being in advertising, he always wanted you to know how much fun he was having and where he had got his jacket from. — Douglas Adams

My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my soul; I am only its noisiest passenger. — Aldous Huxley

The nation has placed its faith in the precept that all laws should be inspired by actual needs here on earth as a basic fact of national life. — Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

In the same way once a book is printed and published it ceases to be the property of the
author; he commits it to the care of other people; — Virginia Woolf

Moral stupidity comes in two different forms: relativism and legalism. Relativism sees no principles, only people; legalism sees no people, only principles. — Peter Kreeft

Simon was still hoping that somewhere in the Sadowhunter manual was the secret of the Vulcan death grip. After all, as his instructors kept reminding them: All the stories are true. — Cassandra Clare

To appeal to contemporary man to revert, in this twentieth century, to a pagan-like nature worship in order to restrain technology from further encroachment and devastation of the resources of nature, is a piece of atavistic nonsense. — Norman Lamm

Our spiritual ancestors have also given birth to us, and they, tol, continue to give birth to us. — Thich Nhat Hanh

Today approximately three-quarters of all $100 bills circulate outside the United States. — Eric Schlosser

A people who have only just begun to emerge from a state of subjugation are in no position to be even-handed ... and it takes much patience and understanding and good will on the part of the strong ones both in the subjugated group and in the group holding the power to provide an atmosphere of stability in which the frightened bravado on both sides of the fence can dissipate itself without increasing the chaos that is already intrinsic in the situation. — Vivian Gornick