If you want to test cosmetics, why do it on some poor animal who hasn't done anything? They should use prisoners who have been convicted of murder or rape instead. So, rather than seeing if perfume irritates a bunny rabbit's eyes, they should throw it in Charles Manson's eyes and ask him if it hurts.
Interpretation
This quote challenges the ethics of animal testing by suggesting an alternative that highlights human accountability.
Ellen Degeneres uses humor and provocative imagery to criticize the practice of testing cosmetics on animals, arguing that it is unjust to subject innocent creatures to suffering when there are human criminals who could be used instead. This raises ethical questions about how society prioritizes the treatment of animals compared to humans and questions the moral implications of using living beings for the sake of beauty products.
In practice
In a speech addressing animal rights, you could use this quote to highlight the absurdity of current testing practices.
Now,I'm no scientist,but I know what endorphins are. They're tiny little magical elves that swim through your blood stream and tell funny jokes to each other. When they reach your brain,you hear what they're saying and that boosts your health and happiness. "Knock Knock... Who's There?.. Little endorphin... Little endorphin who?... Little Endorphin Annie." And then the endorphins laugh and then you laugh. See? Its Science.
Find out who you are and be that person. That's what your soul was put on this Earth to be. Find that truth, live that truth and everything else will come.
When we were growing up our parents somehow made it clear that being famous was good. And I mistakenly thought that if I was famous then everyone would love me.
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I think beauty comes from actually knowing who you are. That's real beauty to me.
For some reason, we can't just enjoy somebody else's success. Somehow, that's going to affect us. If they have more, then I have less - and I don't know why.
Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
We recognize that there are no trivial occurrences in life if we get the right focus on them.
The very idea of supernatural magic - including miracles - is incoherent, devoid of sensible meaning.
To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we 'know' that it is. But as it registers on our hearts, it is not more terrible than one death fully imagined.
We do NOT know the past in chronological sequence. It may be convenient to lay it out anesthetized on the table with dates pasted on here and there, but what we know we know by ripples and spirals eddying out from us and from our own time.
Everything in our background has prepared us to know and resist a prison when the gates begin to close around us . . . But what if there are no cries of anguish to be heard? Who is prepared to take arms against a sea of amusements? To whom do we complain, and when, and in what tone of voice, when serious discourse dissolves into giggles? What is the antidote to a culture's being drained by laughter?
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