“Monkeys, who very sensibly refrain from speech lest they should be set to earn their livings.”

Travis McGee series, A Purple Place for Dying (1964)
Context: ... it is like what we have done to chickens. Forced growth under optimum conditions, so that in eight weeks they are ready for the mechanical picker. The most forlorn and comical statements are the ones made by the grateful young who say Now I can be ready in two years and nine months to go out in and earn a living rather than wasting 4 years in college. Education is something that should be apart from the necessities of earning a living, not a tool therefore. It needs contemplation, fallow periods, the measured and guided study of the history of man’s reiteration of the most agonizing question of all: Why? Today the good ones, the ones who want to ask why, find no one around with any interest in answering the question, so they drop out, because theirs is the type of mind which becomes monstrously bored at the trade-school concept. A devoted technician is seldom an educated man. He can be a useful man, a contented man, a busy man. But he has no more sense of the mystery and wonder and paradox of existence than does one of those chickens fattening itself for the mechanical plucking, freezing and packaging.

"Fee-fi-fo-fem, I Smell The Blood Of A Racist", http://www.wnd.com/2014/05/fee-fi-fo-fem-i-smell-the-blood-of-a-racist/ WorldNetDaily.com, May 15, 2014.
2010s, 2014

"The Protestant Mystics", p. 73
Forewords and Afterwords (1973)

Mahayana, Laṅkāvatāra Sūtra, Chapter Eight. On Meat-eating

Source: The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam (2004), p. 29

Diogenes of Sinope, as quoted in Pearls of Thought (1882), edited by Maturin Murray Ballou, p. 22
Misattributed