Quote by Henry David Thoreau

I have no doubt that it is a part of the destiny of the human race, in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals, as surely as the savage tribes have left off eating each other when they came in contact with the more civilized.

I have no doubt that it is a part of the destiny of the huma

Summary

This quote suggests that as human civilization progresses, it is inevitable that we will eventually stop consuming animals, just like how savage tribes gave up cannibalism when they interacted with more civilized societies. It implies that our moral development and societal advancement will lead us towards rejecting the consumption of animals, indicating a belief in the inherent evolution of human ethics and behaviors.

Topics

By Henry David Thoreau

Liked the quote? Share it with your friends.

Random Quotations

The funniest memory that I can recall about my school days h

The funniest memory that I can recall about my school days has to be one incident that involved unfinished homework for numerous days. I didn't do any of my homework for days and days at a stretch, and kept stalling my teacher that I was extremely unwell and was under heavy medication.

But in a larger sense we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecra

But in a larger sense we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract.

Abraham Lincoln

IBM was the original contractor for much of the computer int

IBM was the original contractor for much of the computer interface design on the film.

Douglas Trumbull

Vision without action is a daydream. Action with without vis

Vision without action is a daydream. Action with without vision is a nightmare.

Japanese Proverb

Vision Visionary

Things we lose have a way of coming back to us in the end, i

Things we lose have a way of coming back to us in the end, if not always in the way we expect.

Neatness begets order but from order to taste there is the s

Neatness begets order but from order to taste there is the same difference as from taste to genius, or from love to friendship.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

While friendship has been by far the chief source of my happ

While friendship has been by far the chief source of my happiness, acquaintance or general society has always meant little to me, and I cannot quite understand why a man should wish to know more people than he can make real friends of.

I can pretty much live without fast food. I haven't eaten Mc

I can pretty much live without fast food. I haven't eaten McDonald's in so long, but it's okay.

Well, one of the problems about being psychoanalyzed is, as

Well, one of the problems about being psychoanalyzed is, as Nietzsche said, Be careful lest in casting out your devils that you cast out the best thing that's in you. So many people who are really in deep analysis look as though and act as though they have been filleted. There's no bone there, there's no stuff! How to get rid of ego as dictator and turn it into messenger and servant and scout, to be in your service, is the trick.

Joseph Campbell, The Hero's Jour

For gold is tried in the fire and acceptable men in the furn

For gold is tried in the fire and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity.

Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be w

Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.

Charles Spurgeon

Wisdom Men Great Knowledge

Design is about point of view, and there should be some sort

Design is about point of view, and there should be some sort of woman or lifestyle or attitude in one's head as a designer.