Throgmortons Commerce Quotes & Sayings

To be cut down to size is good for all of us, but particularly so for those who forget how transient are our cultures and institutions, how pointless and cruel our divisions, how vain our claims to special status for our practices and beliefs above those of others. — Alexander McCall Smith

Washington and the elder Napoleon. Both were brave men; both were true men; both loved their country and dared to expose their lives for their country's cause. — Matthew Simpson

Gratitude is riches. Complaint is poverty. — Doris Day

If someone is going out of his way to ignore you, he is not ignoring you, he is obsessed by you. — Ziad K. Abdelnour

You shall have joy, or you shall have power, said God; you shall not have both. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

As I discuss in Introduction to Animal Rights: Your Child or the Dog?, we may, in the lifeboat or burning-house situation, decide to favor the human over the nonhuman not because death is a lesser harm to the nonhuman, but because we do not know what death means to the nonhuman and we have a better idea what it means to the human. We might, therefore, rely on this - a matter of epistemological limitation on our part and not any empirical claim that death is a lesser harm to humans - as the tie-breaker. We might also flip a coin. We might also decide to choose the nonhuman for some other reason, such as that the human in question is very old and the nonhuman in question is very young. In no case, however, would I think it appropriate to invoke any notion that humans are "higher" animals. — Gary L. Francione

I've always loved the drama and the creating of a role and performance and all that comes with that, but I then also kind of like to have just the white picket fence life if that makes sense. — Nicole Kidman

If it has tires or testicles, you're going to have trouble with it. — Linda J. Furney