Hunting Quotes - Page 5

• The definition of obscenity on the newsstands should be extended to many hunting magazines.

  Wayne Pacelle

  Magazines, Definitions, Animal Rights

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• Seafood is simply a socially acceptable form of bush meat. We condemn Africans for hunting monkeys and mammalian and bird species from the jungle yet the developed world thinks nothing of hauling in magnificent wild creatures like swordfish, tuna, halibut, shark, and salmon for our meals. The fact is that the global slaughter of marine wildlife is simply the largest massacre of wildlife on the planet.

  Paul Watson

  Marine, Thinking, Sharks

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• The real work of men was hunting meat. The invention of agriculture was a giant step in the wrong direction, leading to serfdom, cities, and empire. From a race of hunters, artists, warriors, and tamers of horses, we degraded ourselves to what we are now: clerks, functionaries, laborers, entertainers, processors of information.

  Edward Abbey

  Horse, Real, Warrior

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• Successful hunting, it could be said, is an act of terminal empathy: the kill depends on how successfully a hunter inserts himself into the umwelt of his prey--even to the point of disguising himself as that animal and mimicking its behavior.

  John Vaillant

  Successful, Animal, Empathy

  John Vaillant (2010). “The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival”, p.164, Vintage

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• My name is E. Howard Hunt. I'm currently retired from more than 22 years in the profession of espionage.

  E. Howard Hunt

  Years, Names, Hunts

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• As Americans, we have a long history with firearms. We also have a government built on compromise, so here is the compromise I propose: Ban assault rifles and handguns for everyone except police and military personnel. These weapons are made to kill humans and should be strictly limited. At the same time, allow responsible citizens to own rifles and shotguns. Rifles are for hunting big-game animals, shotguns are for hunting birds; non-automatic versions of these weapons should be available for those with an interest in hunting or target shooting.

  Nick Symmonds

  Military, Animal, Games

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• One of the less vaunted joys of Austen is that she is one of the greatest writers in the English language who also happened to write witty romance novels. Women enjoy the love stories in Austen the same way men read Hemingway for the hunting and fishing: it provides guiltless pleasure.

  Alessandra Stanley

  Witty, Writing, Men

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• The treasure shouldn't do the hunting, and you're a treasure.

  Ed Asner

  Dating, Treasure

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• Charity groped for the phone, coming up with it at last and croaking "hello" in a voice that sounded exactly like a bullfrog's mating call. Which made a kind of twisted sense - last night she'd been hunting for a mate as well.

  Elizabeth Jane Howard

  Night, Phones, Voice

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• Biography, like big game hunting, is one of the recognized forms of sport, and it is as unfair as only sport can be.

  Philip Guedalla

  Sports, Games, Biographies

  Philip Guedalla (1921). “Supers & supermen: studies in politics, history and letters”

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• There's more fun in hunting with the handicap of the bow than there is in hunting with the sureness of the gun.

  Fred Bear

  Fun, Gun, Bows

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• Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in.

  Peter Medawar

  Growing Up, Anger, Society

  Peter Brian Medawar (1996). “The Strange Case of the Spotted Mice and Other Classic Essays on Science”, p.116, Oxford University Press, USA

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• I decline to go fox hunting (nor did she want her sons William and Harry to be involved in hunting).

  Princess Diana

  Son, Want, Foxes

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• It is a surprisingly close progression from hunting animals to hunting and torturing people... catching and lynching blacks or smoking out Jews during the Holocaust.

  Aviva Cantor

  Animal, Lynching, People

  "The Club, the Yoke, and the Leash: What We Can Learn From the Way a Culture Treats Animals". Ms. magazine, Vol. 12, No. 2, August 1983.

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• We are a democracy and we don't believe in just hunting down gangsters and killing them. We believe in trying to find the gangsters and bring them back for trial, and give them a trial under rule of law. That's what democracies do.

  Cornel West

  Believe, Law, Giving

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• Now it’s either about technology that doesn’t work or about technology that’s used in bad ways. The anthology of the top twenty-five sci-fi stories in 1970 was, like, ‘Me and my friend the robot went for a walk on the moon,’ and in 2008 it was, like, ‘The galaxy is run by a fundamentalist Islamic confederacy, and there are people who are hunting planets and killing them for fun.’

  Peter Thiel

  Running, Fun, Islamic

  "No Death, No Taxes". Interview with George Packer, www.newyorker.com. November 28, 2011.

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• I wouldn't hunt a person down for food. But if he were already dead.

  Yasmine Bleeth

  Food, Hunts, Persons

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• The Second Amendment isn't about duck hunting or target shooting.

  Massad Ayoob

  Ducks, Second Amendment, Target

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• Jerry [Garcia] got high and Jerry's dead. I went hunting and I'm still Ted.

  Ted Nugent

  Jerry, Stills

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• Memories are hunting horns whose sound dies on the wind.

  Guillaume Apollinaire

  Memories, Wind, Sound

  "Cors de Chasse" (1912)

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• Because Christian morality leaves animals out of account, they are at once outlawed in philosophical morals; they are mere 'things,' mere means to any ends whatsoever. They can therefore be used for vivisection, hunting, coursing, bullfights, and horse racing, and can be whipped to death as they struggle along with heavy carts of stone. Shame on such a morality that is worthy of pariahs, and that fails to recognize the eternal essence that exists in every living thing, and shines forth with inscrutable significance from all eyes that see the sun!

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Christian, Horse, Struggle

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• I'm hunting for the truth. It might be a kind of poetic truth, and not just a factual one, because behind everything that happens to you, there is another truth, a secret life.

  Anne Sexton

  Secret, Might, Kind

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• Whether it was hunting, fishing, or playing sports, my children were going to grow up outside. They weren't going to be sitting on the couch inside. At least they didn't grow up to be nerds.

  Phil Robertson

  Sports, Children, Growing Up

  Phil Robertson (2013). “Happy, Happy, Happy: My Life and Legacy as the Duck Commander”, p.29, Simon and Schuster

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• I am an artist... It's self-evident that what that word implies is looking for something all the time without ever finding it in full. It is the opposite of saying, 'I know all about it. I've already found it.' As far as I'm concerned, the word means, 'I am looking. I am hunting for it. I am deeply involved.'

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Mean, Artist, Self

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• Most of my hunting experiences has been in tree stands. I've never called deer.

  Joe Teti

  Tree, Survival, Deer

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