Addiction & Recovery

When a person can't find a deep sense of

meaning, they distract themselves with pleasure.

Victor Frankl

 

Pleasures can become punishments

when taken beyond a certain point.

Marcus Aurelius

 

I learned through my body and soul that it was

necessary to sin, that I needed lust, that I had to

strive for property and experience nausea and

the depths of despair in order to learn not to

resist them, in order to learn to love the world,

and no longer compare it with some kind of

desired imaginary vision of perfection,

but to leave it as it is, to love it and

be glad to belong to it.

Hermann Hesse

I often think of alcohol as a genie in a bottle.

It promises everything but eventually

imprisons you in the bottle itself.

Erica Jong

Complete abstinence is easier

than perfect moderation.

Saint Augustine

Certified 'Humane' & Other Lies

The meat industry spends hundreds of millions of

dollars lying to the public about their product.

But no amount of false propaganda can

sanitise meat. The facts are absolutely clear.

Eating animals is bad for human health,

catastrophic for the environment and

a living nightmare for animals.

Chrissie Hynde

Jo Frederiks

Ignorance is not a simple lack of knowledge

but an active aversion to knowledge,

the refusal to know, issuing from cowardice,

pride or laziness of mind.

Karl Popper

As with any violent ideology, the populace must

be shielded from direct exposure to the victims,

lest they begin questioning the system or their

participation in it. This truth speaks for itself:

why else would the meat industry go to such

lengths to keep its practices invisible?

Melanie Joy

For, consciously, or subconsciously, it is with

deliberation that we don't know or fail to

understand - because incomprehension allows us,

with a good conscience, to evade unpleasant

obligations and responsibilities, because

ignorance is the best excuse for going on

doing what ones likes, but ought, not to do.

Aldous Huxley

Most people are not seeking truth - they are

searching for comfort in illusions.

Friedrich Nietzsche

We live in imaginary, virtual worlds created by

corporations that profit from our deception.

Chris Hedges

Truth has to be repeated constantly,

because Error also is being preached all the time,

and not just by a few, but by the multitude. In

the Press, Encyclopaedias, in Schools and

Universities, everywhere Error holds sway,

feeling happy and comfortable in

the knowledge of having Majority on its side.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Truth never damages a cause that is just.

Mahatma Gandhi

The truth is that people are brainwashed into

thinking that it's normal to consume animals.

They are so uncomfortable with confronting

what happens to those animals because

they are part and parcel of that cruelty.

Juliet Gellatley

Unless and until you are prepared to look

at the whole truth; and wherever it may go,

if you want to look the other way or

if you want to play favourites, then

somewhere along the line you're going to

find out that you're messing with divine justice.

Jordan Maxwell

COMFORTABLE LIES

Without ever committing an act of outright

evil ourselves, we collude with it

through our own apathy.

J.K. Rowling

Think occasionally of the suffering of which

you spare yourself the sight.

Albert Schweitzer

What an amount of suffering the poor creatures

have to endure in order to give a few moments

of pleasure to men devoid of thought.

Albert Schweitzer

Jo Frederiks

If slaughterhouses had glass walls,

everyone would be vegetarian.

Paul McCartney

To examine whether something is 'humane',

first determine whether you would

want it done to you.

Andrea Kladar

The truth is never loved by those

who profit from the lie.

John Chrysostom

I have seen firsthand how injustice

gets overlooked when the victims are

powerless or vulnerable, when they have

no one to speak up for them and no means of

representing themselves to a higher authority.

Animals are in precisely that position.

Unless we speak out on their behalf,

abuse and cruelty goes unchallenged.

Desmond Tutu

There is no right way to do the wrong thing.

Harold S. Kushner

Highway to Hell

The greatest danger of lies is not that they

replace truth, but that they destroy our

ability to recognize truth at all,

leaving a society lost without direction.

Hannah Arendt

When the suffering of another creature causes

you to feel pain, do not submit to the initial

desire to flee from the suffering one, but

on the contrary, come closer, as close

as you can to him who suffers,

and try to help.

Leo Tolstoy

No man chooses evil because it is evil;

he only mistakes it for happiness,

the good he seeks.

Mary Wollstonecraft