Anti Whaling Side

Famous quotes containing the words whaling and/or side:

    The only thing that was dispensed free to the old New Bedford whalemen was a Bible. A well-known owner of one of that city’s whaling fleets once described the Bible as the best cheap investment a shipowner could make.
    —For the State of Massachusetts, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)

    Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other.... Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)