Howard Williams Quotes
Who was Howard Williams?
Howard Williams was an English humanitarianism and vegetarianism activist. He was noted for authoring 'The Ethics of Diet', a history of vegetarianism, which was influential on the Victorian vegetarian movement. | Born | January 6, 1837 |
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| Died | September 21, 1931 |
| Aged | 94 years old |
Books by Howard Williams
Best Quotes by Howard Williams
The Ethics of Diet Quotes
“Blind hero-worship and idolatry of genius or intellect – even of intellect directed to high moral aims – forms no part of the Humanitarian creed;”
“Plato, it has been already observed, deserves his high place among the immortals, not so much on account of any special originality, or on account of any direct or substantial results from his speculative and transcendental philosophy, as on account of its general tendency to subordinate the lower to the higher nature – to refine, and, so to speak, spiritualize human thought.”
“The obligation to abstain from the flesh of animals, it is to be admitted, seems to have been founded, primarily, rather upon spiritual than upon strictly humanitarian reasons.”
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“I don’t have an ideology. I work on the basis of evolutionary guidelines because seven billion personas are in terrible danger. The past of human habitat is an open book of pros and cons. Self-creation is rainbowlike, consisting of all colors.”
