If we eliminated the dog from our lives, nothing much would happen to our ecology. Independent of man, the dog is a vandal. With m...an, he does a little sheep-herding, a little watch-dogging. He helps law enforcement officers control the troublesome ghetto-dwellers and protest marchers. He sniffs out "hash" and "grass." He goes out on weekends and helps man murder other forms of life for pleasure. But mostly he is just an adjunct to man's ego.... The cat owes man nothing. Some experts estimate that there is one homeless cat managing on its own for every one with a home, which makes a total cat population in the U.S. of more than fifty million. That means the largest nonhuman animal population in the nation, short of rodents, whose number is beyond estimate. Eliminate cats from our ecology and, in a matter of weeks, we would be overrun by rodents.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Progress, under whose feet the grass mourns and the forest turns into paper from which newspaper plants grow, has subordinated the... purpose of life to the means of subsistence and turned us into the nuts and bolts for our tools.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We are living now, not in the delicious intoxication induced by the early successes of science, but in a rather grisly morning-aft...er, when it has become apparent that what triumphant science has done hitherto is to improve the means for achieving unimproved or actually deteriorated ends.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The day that the Black man takes an uncompromising step and realizes that he is within his rights, when his own freedom is being j...eopardized, to use any means necessary to bring about his freedom or put a halt to that injustice, I don't think he'll be by himself.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It's just like when you've got some coffee that's too black, which means it's too strong. What do you do? You integrate it with cr...eam, you make it weak. But if you pour too much cream in it, you won't even know you ever had coffee. It used to be hot, it becomes cool. It used to be strong, it becomes weak. It used to wake you up, now it puts you to sleep.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »