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Typen der Gesellschaft, Druck und Verlag von W. Levysohn, Grünberg 1860, S. 101, MDZ https://reader.digitale-sammlungen.de/de/fs1/object/display/bsb10109366_00106.html

„Wir können nicht alle Genies sein; die Genies sind die Luxuspersonen der Menschheit.“

— Bogumil Goltz

Typen der Gesellschaft

„Der Mann, den seine Freunde, seine Künste und Wissenschaften verlassen haben, findet noch ein Asyl in seiner Familie und eine Freundin in seiner Frau.“

— Bogumil Goltz

„Die Männer regieren die Welt und die Frauen ihre Männer. Was wollen Sie noch mehr!“

— Bogumil Goltz

Zur Charakteristik und Naturgeschichte der Frauen, Sechste Auflage, Verlegt von Otto Janke, Berlin 1904, S. 245,

„[…] das Weib trachtet unendlich mehr danach, glücklich zu machen, als glücklich zu sein;“

— Bogumil Goltz

Zur Charakteristik und Naturgeschichte der Frauen, Sechste Auflage, Verlegt von Otto Janke, Berlin 1904, S. 83,

„Selbst gebildete Frauen vertragen nicht immer andauernd gleichmäßiges Glück und fühlen einen unbegreiflichen Antrieb zu Teufeleien und Narrheiten, durch welche eine Abwechslung und Unterbrechung in die Lebensruhe kommt, die ihnen ohne Episoden, Katastrophen und Eventualitäten zu monoton und langweilig erscheint.“

— Bogumil Goltz

Zur Charakteristik und Naturgeschichte der Frauen, Sechste Auflage, Verlegt von Otto Janke, Berlin 1904, S. 36,

„What humiliation, what disgrace for us all, that it should be necessary for one man to exhort other men not to be inhuman and irrational towards their fellow-creatures! Do they recognise, then, no mind, no soul in them — have they not feeling, pleasure in existence, do they not suffer pain? Do their voices of joy and sorrow indeed fail to speak to the human heart and conscience — so that they can murder the jubilant lark, in the first joy of his spring-time, who ought to warm their hearts with sympathy, from delight in bloodshed or for their ‘sport,’ or with a horrible insensibility and recklessness only to practise their aim in shooting! Is there no soul manifest in the eyes of the living or dying animal — no expression of suffering in the eye of a deer or stag hunted to death — nothing which accuses them of murder before the avenging Eternal Justice? …. Are the souls of all other animals but man mortal, or are they essential in their organisation? Does the world-idea (Welt-Idee) pertain to them also — the soul of nature — a particle of the Divine Spirit? I know not; but I feel, and every reasonable man feels like me, it is in miserable, intolerable contradiction with our human nature, with our conscience, with our reason, with all our talk of humanity, destiny, nobility; it is in frightful (himmelschreinder) contradiction with our poetry and philosophy, with our nature and with our (pretended) love of nature, with our religion, with our teachings about benevolent design — that we bring into existence merely to kill, to maintain our own life by the destruction of other life. …. It is a frightful wrong that other species are tortured, worried, flayed, and devoured by us, in spite of the fact that we are not obliged to this by necessity; while in sinning against the defenceless and helpless, just claimants as they are upon our reasonable conscience and upon our compassion, we succeed only in brutalising ourselves. This, besides, is quite certain, that man has no real pity and compassion for his own species, so long as he is pitiless towards other races of beings.“

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— Bogumil Goltz

Das Menschendasein in seinen weltewigen Zügen und Zeichen (1850); as quoted in The Ethics of Diet: A Catena of Authorities Deprecatory of the Practice of Flesh-eating https://archive.org/stream/ethicsofdietcate00will/ethicsofdietcate00will#page/n3/mode/2up by Howard Williams (London: F. Pitman, 1883), pp. 287-286.