J. M. Coetzee Quotes About Consciousness

Quotes about: Consciousness

• They have no consciousness therefore. Therefore what? Therefore we are free to use them for our own ends? Therefore we are free to kill them? Why? What is so special about the form of consciousness we recognize that makes killing a bearer of it a crime while killing an animal goes unpunished?...all this discussion of consciousness and whether animals have it is just a smokescreen. At bottom we protect our own kind. Thumbs up to human babies, thumbs down to veal calves.

  J. M. Coetzee

  Baby, Animal, Thumbs Down

• The mode of consciousness of nonhuman species is quite different from human consciousness.

  J. M. Coetzee

  Different, Consciousness, Humans

• If it is indeed impossible - or at least very difficult - to inhabit the consciousness of an animal, then in writing about animals there is a temptation to project upon them feelings and thoughts that may belong only to our own human mind and heart.

  J. M. Coetzee

  Writing, Heart, Animal

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