“[T]he belief that the bodies of other beings take a necessary part in human alimentation is more than a tradition: it is a convenience. For if human beings can hold on to the feeling that the flesh and blood of their fellows are in some way necessary to them, they are comparatively immune from those disturbances which the most cowed conscience is at times disposed to stir up.”

— J. Howard Moore

Source: The New Ethics (1907), What Shall We Eat?, p. 78

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1862–1916

Jacques Ozanam (1640–1718) French mathematician

Preface; lead paragraph
A Mathematical Dictionary: Or; A Compendious Explication of All Mathematical Terms, 1702

“… far greater Advantages would come to pass amongst Christians, if they would cease from Contention, Oppression, and (what tends and disposes them thereunto,) the killing of Beasts, and eating their Flesh and Blood; and in a short time humane murthers, and devilish feuds and cruelties among each other, would abate, and perhaps scarce have a being amongst them.”

Thomas Tryon (1634–1703) British hat maker

The Way to Health, Long Life and Happiness, London, 1697, p. 241 https://books.google.it/books?id=cQ83AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA241.

“To my mind the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being. I should be unwilling to take the life of a lamb for the sake of the human body. I hold that, the more helpless a creature, the more entitled it is to protection by man from the cruelty of man.”

Mahatma Gandhi (1869–1948) pre-eminent leader of Indian nationalism during British-ruled India

Part III, Chapter 18, A Month with Gokhale II
1920s, An Autobiography (1927)

“But nothing disturbs the feeling of specialness like the presence of other human beings feeling identically special.”

Jonathan Franzen book Freedom

Source: Freedom

“No human being can be immune to boasting. Even pretending you aren't bragging is already part of bragging.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

“Being human is difficult. Some people make it more difficult than others. I was one of those people.”

Lana Del Rey (1985) American singer-songwriter

Complex (24 January 2012)

“No human being can be more human than another human being. I liberate you from my ignorance.”

Maya Angelou (1928–2014) American author and poet

“There is nothing necessary or desirable for human nutrition to be found in meats or flesh foods, which are not found in and derived from vegetable products.”

John Harvey Kellogg (1852–1943) American physician

Source: The New Dietetics, What to Eat and How: A Guide to Scientific Feeding in Health and Disease, Battle Creek, MI: The Modern Medicine Publishing Co., 1921, p. 366 https://books.google.it/books?id=TNsMAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA366.

“Above all, it is necessary to recognize that knowledge cannot be pumped into human beings the way grease is forced into a machine. The individual may learn; he is not taught.”

Douglas McGregor (1906–1964) American professor

Source: The Human Side of Enterprise (1960), p. 211 (p. 289 in 2006 edition)

“The tradition that the universe was originally constructed and has ever since been, and is to-day, guided by the cerebral processes of an all-wise brain, is responsible for it all. Blinded by this inheritance, human beings condone the most palpable defects in the economies of the universe—limitations which, it is not violent to say, if possessed by a fellow human being, would be characterized as those of an imbecile.”

J. Howard Moore (1862–1916)

Source: Better-World Philosophy: A Sociological Synthesis (1899), The Social Problem, p. 87

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