Carnivores Quotes

• For the most part, we carnivores do not eat other carnivores. We prefer to eat our vegetarian friends.

  Robert Breault

  Vegetarian, Vegan

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• You stupefied me. We waxed,
  Carnivores, late and alight
  In the beaded winter. All was ominous, luminous.

  John Ashbery

  Life, Winter, Late

  John Ashbery (1986). “Selected Poems”

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• A liberal society cannot be defended by herbivores. We need carnivores to save us, but we had better make sure the meat-eaters hunt only on our orders.

  Michael Ignatieff

  Order, Meat, Needs

  "Lesser Evils" by Michael Ignatieff, www.nytimes.com. May 2, 2004.

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• If any vegans came over for dinner, I could whip them up a salad, then
  explain my philosophy on being a carnivore: If God had not intended for
  us to eat animals, how come He made them out of meat?

  Sarah Palin

  Philosophy, Animal, Meat

  "Sarah Palin on Animal Rights". Interview with Andrew Kirschner, kirschnerskorner.com. January 26, 2016.

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• I say, if you're going to eat a creature alive, you have to expect some screaming. That is the carnivore's burden.

  John Hodgman

  Alive, Burden, Creatures

  "Humorist John Hodgman Plays 'Not My Job'". "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!" with Carl Kasell and Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. December 24, 2010.

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• I've read that it's the smell some carnivores use to find their prey. Imagine the trembling victim trying to hide, but knowing that the smell of its own fear will kill it.

  Jo Nesbo

  Fear, Smell, Knowing

  Jo Nesbo (2010). “The Snowman: Harry Hole 7”, p.65, Random House

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• It is the nature of carnivores to get power and then, having disposed of their enemies, to deploy the emollient powers of Great Art to make themselves look like herbivores.

  Robert Hughes

  Art, Enemy, Looks

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• I'm the god of war, the resurrector of the horror-core. The carnivore, destroying you wasn't hard at all

  Vinnie Paz

  War, Horror, Destroying

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• I'm somewhat shy about the brutal facts of being a carnivore. I don't like meat to look like animals. I prefer it in the form of sausages, hamburger and meat loaf, far removed from the living thing.

  John Updike

  Animal, Meat, Shy

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• The wolf is carnivore incarnate and he's as cunning as he is ferocious; once he's had a taste of flesh then nothing else will do.

  Angela Carter

  Flesh, Taste, Cunning

  Angela Carter (1997). “Burning your boats: the collected short stories”, Penguin Group USA

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• I've never been crazy when it comes to controlling my diet. I just avoid processed foods, don't mix carbs and make sure I get my protein. I'm a carnivore. I love my wild game and especially my buffalo meat.

  Diego Sanchez

  Crazy, Games, Meat

  Interview with John Scott Lewinski, www.askmen.com. March 16, 2011.

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• Once she'd loved my filet mignon, my carnivore inklings, but now she was a vegan princess, living off of beans. She'd given up the cheese and bacon, sworn off Burger King, and when I wouldn't do the same she gave me back my ring. I stood there by the romaine lettuce, feeling my heart pine. Wishing that this meatless beauty still would be all mine. She turned around to go to checkout, fifteen items or less. And I knew this was the last go-round, so this is what I said. ... "Don't you ever give me no rotten tomato, 'cause all I ever wanted was your sweet potato.

  Sarah Dessen

  Sweet, Kings, Princess

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• Lions cannot afford to hunt mice because they literally will starve to death, even if they catch them. Lions and all large carnivores have to hunt game large enough to justify the investment, so they have to hunt antelope and zebra. Why is this important? Because most senior executives are really big on chipmunks.

  Newt Gingrich

  Leadership, Senior, Zebras

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• It almost seems to me that man was not born to be a carnivore.

  Albert Einstein

  Men, Vegetarianism, Vegan

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.454, Princeton University Press

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• In the animal kingdom, one of the keys to survival is to outwit your enemies. And when you're surrounded by carnivores, one of the best strategies is to fade into the background and disappear.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Animal, Keys, Survival

  "How Smart Are Animals?". "NOVA scienceNOW", www.pbs.org. February 9, 2011.

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• He burst into the house and ate Grandma, an entirely valid course of action for a carnivore such as himself.

  James Finn Garner

  Grandma, House, Action

  James Finn Garner (2011). “Politically Correct Bedtime Stories”, p.6, Souvenir Press

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• I think anyone who is a carnivore needs to understand that meat does not originally come in these neat little packages.

  Julia Child

  Thinking, Humane Way, Meat

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think that we reject the evidence that our world is changing because we are still, as that wonderfully wise biologist E. O. Wilson reminded us, tribal carnivores. We are programmed by our inheritance to see other living things as mainly something to eat, and we care more about our national tribe than anything else. We will even give our lives for it and are quite ready to kill other humans in the cruellest of ways for the good of our tribe. We still find alien the concept that we and the rest of life, from bacteria to whales, are parts of the much larger and diverse entity, the living Earth.

  James Lovelock

  Wise, Thinking, Our World

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• Looking back now on the whole sexual scene we can see that our species has remained much more loyal to its basic biological urges than we might at first imagine. Its primate sexual system with carnivore modifications has survived all the fantastic technological advances remarkably well.

  Desmond Morris

  Sex, Loyal, Might

  Desmond Morris (1986). “The illustrated naked ape: a zoologist's study of the human animal”, Crown Pub

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• Are you a vegetarian?' I ask, based on the evidence in front of me. She nods. 'Why?' 'Because I have this theory that when we die, every animal that we've eaten has a chance at eating us back. So if you're a carnivore and you add up all the animals you've eaten--well, that's a long time in purgatory, being chewed.' 'Really?' She laughs. 'No. I'm just sick of the question. I mean, I'm a vegetarian because I think it's wrong to eat other sentient creatures. And it sucks for the environment.

  David Levithan

  Mean, Animal, Thinking

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• I think the evidence is pretty clear. If you look at various characteristics of carnivores versus herbivores, it doesn't take a genius to see where humans line up.

  William C. Roberts

  Thinking, Looks, Genius

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• So I am living without fats, without meat, without fish, but am feeling quite well this way. It always seems to me that man was not born to be a carnivore.

  Albert Einstein

  Men, Feelings, Meat

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.454, Princeton University Press

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• When a caterpillar eats a leaf, then a thrush eats the caterpillar, or when a hawk eats the thrush only 5 to 20% of usable energy is transferred from one level to the next. ... Thus herbivores will account for a much smaller fraction of the biomass [than plants] and the carnivores for a still smaller fraction.

  Richard Heinberg

  Environmental, Energy, Levels

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• I try to write in the first person - the first person not of a journalist but of a carnivore, an eater, a gardener, someone trying to figure out what to feed his family.

  Michael Pollan

  Writing, Trying, Firsts

  Source: leitesculinaria.com

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• All breathing beings are spiritual; this includes everyone who breathes, whether they are animals or humans, carnivores or vegetarians.

  Sharon Gannon

  Spiritual, Animal, Breathing

  "Sharon Gannon on Veganism". jivamuktiyoga.com. November 16, 2016.

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