"A day will come in which men..." - Quote by Leonardo Da Vinci
A day will come in which men will look upon an animal's murder the same way they look today upon a man's murder.
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“Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.”
“He who possesses most must be most afraid of loss.”
“If you find from your own experience that something is a fact and it contradicts what some authority has written down, then you must abandon the authority and base your reasoning on your own findings.”
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“By ahimsa we will be able to save the cow and also win the friendship of the English.”
“If you cannot attain knowledge without torturing a dog, you must do without knowledge.”
“[T]he moralists of Europe [have] pretended that beasts have no rights... a doctrine revolting/gross/barbarous... on which a native of the Asiatic uplands could not look without righteous horror.”
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“Freedom is not constituted primarily of privileges but of responsibilities.”
“And when at some future date the high court of history sits in judgment on each of us, recording whether in our brief span of service we fulfilled our responsibilities to the state, our success or failure, in whatever office we hold, will be measured by the answers to four questions: First, were we truly men of courage... Second, were we truly men of judgment... Third, were we truly men of integrity... Finally, were we truly men of dedication?-”
“The very idea of freedom presupposes some objective moral law which overarches rulers and ruled alike...Unless we return to the crude and nursery-like belief in objective values, we perish.”