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“We are taught that corporations have a soul, which is the most terrifying news in the world.”
― Postscript on the Societies of Control
― Postscript on the Societies of Control
“We live in a culture that has institutionalized the oppression of animals on at least two levels: in formal structures such as slaughterhouses, meat markets, zoos, laboratories, and circuses, and through our language. That we refer to meat eating rather than to corpse eating is a central example of how our language transmits the dominant culture's approval of this activity.”
― The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory
― The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory
“Nothing evokes the end of the world more than a man running straight ahead on a beach, swathed in the sounds of his walkman . . . Primitives, when in despair, would commit suicide by swimming out to sea until they could swim no longer. The jogger commits suicide by running up and down the beach. His eyes are wild, saliva drips from his mouth. Do not stop him.”
― America
― America
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