Jose Ortega y Gasset Quotes

The time will come when public opinion will no longer tolerate amusements based on the mistreatment and killing of animals. The time will come, but when? When will we reach the point that hunting, the pleasure in killing animals for sport, will be regarded as a mental aberration?

In a thousand apparently humble ways men busy themselves to make some right take the place of some wrong,--if it is only to make abetter paste blacking,--and they are themselves so much the better morally for it.

We are not to expect perfection in this world; but mankind, in modern times, have apparently made some progress in the science of government.

The hunter who accepts the sporting code of ethics keeps his commandments in the greatest solitude, with no witness or audience other than the sharp peaks of the mountain, the roaming cloud, the stern oak, the trembling juniper, and the passing animal.

Don't hunt what you can't kill

Dating back to Teddy Roosevelt, hunters have been the pillar of conservation in America, doing more than anyone to conserve wildlife and its habitat.

A peculiar virtue in wildlife ethics is that the hunter ordinarily has no gallery to applaud or disapprove of his conduct

The flesh is sweeter, where the creature has some chance for its life; for that reason, I always use a single ball, even if it be at a bird or a squirrel; besides, it saves lead, for, when a body knows how to shoot, one piece of lead is enough for all, except hard-lived animals.

There was never any question about the morality of hunting, but neither was there any acceptance of killing for the sake of a trophy.

Sorry excuses for hunters and friends. Both of us.

Whenever I see a photograph of some sportsman grinning over his kill, I am always impressed by the striking moral and esthetic superiority of the dead animal to the live one.

It is usual for a Man who loves Country Sports to preserve the Game in his own Grounds, and divert himself upon those that belongto his Neighbour.

The measure of progress of civilization is the progress of the people.

I've gone out with my shotgun. This is hunting country out there. You better run.

The end of knowledge is wisdom The end of culture is perfection The end of wisdom is freedom The end of education is character. And character consists of eagerness to renounce one's selfish greed.

I can't imagine deer hunting. I used to think I couldn't imagine deer hunting because killing a deer seemed so awful. But now I think about just sitting in a tree and doing nothing all day and probably not even seeing a deer. Not moving and sitting in a tree? That seems rough.

It's not imitating anything; it has become a better version of itself.

So much has been done, exclaimed the soul of Frankenstein - more, far more, will I achieve; treading in the steps already marked, I will pioneer a new way, explore unknown powers, and unfold to the world the deepest mysteries of creation.

Don’t aim for perfection, aim for success.

If you want to shoot rare, fast-moving elephants, you should always carry a loaded gun.

Do not wait until the conditions are perfect to begin. Beginning makes the conditions perfect.

They oughtta change Black History Month to Black Progress Month and start measuring it.

Everybody has to start somewhere. You have your whole future ahead of you. Perfection doesn't happen right away.

If you have methods without principles, you're going to have trouble. But if you develop methods based on principles, then you can make progress.

It is very strange, and very melancholy, that the paucity of human pleasures should persuade us ever to call hunting one of them.