“Archaeologists only look at what lies beneath their feet. The sky and the heavens don't exist for them.”
― Murder in Mesopotamia
― Murder in Mesopotamia
“Of the animals I saw, I could write volumes. All were wild; for the Great Race's mechanised culture had long since done away with domestic beasts, while food was wholly vegetable or synthetic.”
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“Man is the victim of an environment which refuses to understand his soul.”
― Tales of Ordinary Madness
― Tales of Ordinary Madness
“If modern civilised man had to keep the animals he eats, the number of vegetarians would rise astronomically.”
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“The mass of the population before the modern era rarely ate meat as the mass of the peasantry rarely do in underdeveloped countries today. In Europe, in the Middle Ages, meat, especially red meat, was associated with aristocracy, landed gentry and their militaristic and hunting culture. It was this, also, that tended to strengthen the association of meat with power and aggression.”
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