 | Thomas More (February 7, 1478 - July 6, 1535) on Animal Rights and Human Sympathy(published by RevoltSource) |
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English Lawyer, Judge, Social Philosopher, Author, Statesman, and Noted Renaissance Humanist
: Venerated in the Catholic Church as Saint Thomas More, he was an English lawyer, judge, social philosopher, author, statesman, and noted Renaissance humanist. He also served Henry VIII as Lord High Chancellor of England from October 1529 to May 1532. He wrote Utopia, published in 1516, which describes the political system of an imaginary island state. (From: Wikipedia.org.)
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Quote #5 on Ecological Struggle Quotes >> Animal Rights and Human Sympathy
“...for they suffer none of their citizens to kill their cattle, because they think that pity and good-nature, which are among the best of those affections that are born with us, are much impaired by the butchering of animals...”
Source: "Utopia," by Thomas More, 1516. Book 2, Of Their Traffic.
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