118 quotes found
“A reduction of meat consumption by only 10% would result in about 12 million more tons of grain for human consumption. This additional grain could feed all of the humans across the world who starve...”
“We generally accept that it's natural for carnivorous wild animals to kill other animals in order to live. But people don't often think (or even know) about the extraordinary and unnatural sufferin...”
“Kinship with all creatures of the earth, sky, and water was a real and active principle. In the animal and bird world there existed a brotherly feeling that kept us safe among them... The animals h...”
“We dont crave animal-based meat, dairy, and eggs, but we do crave fat, salt, flavor, texture, and familiarity.”
“The vegan lifestyle is a compassionate way to live that supports life, supports fairness and equality, and promotes freedom.”
“The character of the Indian's emotion left little room in his heart for antagonism toward his fellow creatures .... For the Lakota (one of the three branches of the Sioux Nation), mountains, lakes,...”
“Poor animals! How jealously they guard their pathetic bodiesthat which to us is merely an evenings meal, but to them is life itself.”
“In the preface of "The Rifles" "Another rule we followed was never kill an animal that we were not going to use for food or clothing." Barnabas Piryuaq"Well, in those high latitudes we found such q...”
“I return one last time to the places of death all around us, the places of slaughter to which, in a huge communal effort, we close our hearts. Each day a fresh holocaust, yet, as far as I can see, ...”
“Humans as a whole are but an unwholesome hole with a sorry ass. In short, a**holes.”
“What's with all the cheering over the apocalypse, anyway? Oh, yay, we get to kill poor helpless humans.""The excitement over the apocalypse had nothing to do with humans.""Could have fooled me.""Hu...”
“As long as humans feel they are forced to defend their own rights and worth by placing someone beneath them, oppression will not end.”
“I've known humans, and I know beasts. The beast is better. It is unpretentious. It kills for food. Humans do 'cause they're just not any good.”
“We look at the world through our own eyes, naturally. But by looking from the inside out, we see an inside-out world. This book takes the perspective of the world outside usa world in which humans ...”
“When you start with a necessary evil, and then over time the necessity passes away, what's left?”
“Often, the greater our ignorance about something, the greater our resistance to change.”
“Make ethical choices in what we buy, do, and watch. In a consumer-driven society our individual choices, used collectively for the good of animals and nature, can change the world faster than laws.”
“To give preference to the life of a being simply because that being is a member of our species would put us in the same position as racists who give preference to those who are members of their race.”
“To be full of being is to live as a body-soul. One name for the experience of full being is joy.”
“Very little of the great cruelty shown by men can really be attributed to cruel instinct. Most of it comes from thoughtlessness or inherited habit. The roots of cruelty, therefore, are not so much ...”
