📷 Ethics & Art 🖌️

Art is not what you see,

but what you make others see.

Edgar Degas

Today's Guernica

The aim of art is to represent not

the outward appearance of things,

but their inward significance.

Aristotle

The purpose of art is to stop time.

Bob Dylan

Aesthetics is the mother of ethics.

Joseph Brodsky

Indefensible

Ethics is the aesthetics of the soul.

Pierre Reverdy

Beautiful makes you come back for more.

It makes you ask questions. That's part

of it's power. It makes you think about

the experience it's giving you.

Diane Keaton

Nick Brandt

Non-violence, which is the quality of the heart,

cannot come by an appeal to the brain.

Mahatma Gandhi

From beasts we scorn as soulless,

in forest, field and den,

the cry goes up to witness,

the soullessness of men.

M. Frida Hartley

It is our hearts, not just our heads, that call

for an end to it all, that demand of us that we

overcome, for them, the habits and forces behind

their systematic oppression. That requires

both our passion and our discipline.

The fate of animals is in our hands.

God grant we are equal to the task.

Tom Regan

Reason is the slave of the passions.

David Hume

To have compassion means to have passion

for all things... for all human beings,

for the animals... everything the Earth contains.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

We Are All 269

We must realize that all life is valuable

and that we are united to all life.

Albert Schweitzer

An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.

Charles Bukowski

Art is the lie that enables us

to realize the truth.

Pablo Picasso

I am an artist at living -

my work of art is my life.

D.T. Suzuki

I think having land and not ruining it

is the most beautiful art that

anybody could ever want.

Andy Warhol

The opposite of love is not hate,

it's indifference.

The opposite of art is not ugliness,

it's indifference.

The opposite of faith is not heresy,

it's indifference.

The opposite of life is not death,

it's indifference.

Elie Wiesel

Jo Frederiks

I've Seen You in the Meat Aisle

~ by Emma Murphy

I've seen you in the meat aisle,

Seen you choosing who to eat,

Eyeing up their body parts

In rows all nice and neat.

I've seen you grabbing bottled milk

That wasn't made for you

And I know you never think about

The suffering they knew.

I've watched your fill your trolley up

With misery and pain,

Eggs and cheese, a leg, a wing,

My heart just broke again.

You say I should respect your choice,

That it's your right to choose,

Well, legally perhaps you win,

But morally, you lose.

I don't know how you do it

But you close your ears and eyes

To the slaughterhouse, the blood and screams,

Their fear, despair and cries.

It doesn't even cross your mind,

You bite and drink and chew,

And you keep yourself from knowing

That they died because of you.

So no, I don't respect your choice,

There's no respect from me.

You are putting in your stomach

Someone you refuse to see.

The animals, they have no voice,

Convenient for you,

But have a heart and look at those

Who lost their lives for you.

Someone, not something.

🌻 What is Veganism? 🌱

Veganism is a philosophy and way of living

which seeks to exclude - as far as is possible

and practicable - all forms av exploitation of,

and cruelty to, animals for food, clothing or

any other purpose; and by extension,

 promotes the development and use of

animal-free alternatives for the benefit

of animals, humans and the environment.

In dietary terms it denotes the practice

of dispensing with all products

derived wholly or partly from animals.

If we could live happy and healthy lives

without harming others, why wouldn't we?

Pam Ahern

A good heart will refuse the happiness

built on the misfortune of others.

Saadie

We know we cannot be kind to animals

until we stop exploiting them -

exploiting animals in the name of science,

exploiting animals in the name of sport,

exploiting animals in the name of fashion,

and yes, exploiting animals in the name of food.

César Chávez

Widely recognized as the foundational text

within the animal liberation movement,

Peter Singer's Animal Liberation opened

my eyes to the radical philosophy that all

animals are worthy of equal consideration.

Joaquin Phoenix

My own view is that being vegan is not an end

 in itself, but a means towards reducing both

human and animal suffering and leaving

a habitable planet to future generations.

Peter Singer

It is not an act of kindness to treat animals

respectfully. It is an act of justice.

Tom Regan

The assumption that animals are without

rights and the illusion that our treatment

of them has no moral significance is a

positively outrageous example of human

crudity and barbarity. Universal compassion

is the only guarantee of morality.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Animals have a right to live, and whilst that

sounds very simple, our culture has denied

them that right in so many ways. In the same

way as I think that humans deserve the chance

for a good life, I extend that to animals.

Paul McCartney

Whether we exploit animals to eat, wear, to

entertain us, or to learn, the truth of animal

rights requires empty cages, not larger cages.

Tom Regan

Sympathy beyond the confines of man, that is,

humanity to animals, seems to be one of

the latest moral acquisitions.

Charles Darwin

If you don't want to be beaten, imprisoned,

mutilated, killed or tortured, then you

shouldn't condone such behavior towards

anyone, be they human or not.

Moby

Veganism serves as the criterion by which

we know that the pursuit of moral progress

on the part of humanity is genuine and sincere.

Veganism is the acid test of humanitarianism.

Leo Tolstoy

Every effort should be made to stop

the wanton, cruel slaughter of animals,

which must be destructive to our morals.

Nikola Tesla

Shame on such a morality that is worthy of

pariahs; and that fails to recognize the eternal

essence that exists in every living being,

and shines forth with inscrutable significance

from all eyes that see the sun!

Arthur Schopenhauer

Animals suffer as much as we do.

True humanity does not allow us

to impose such sufferings on them.

Until we extend our circle of compassion to

all living beings, humanity will not find peace.

Albert Schweizer

The idea that we have the right to inflict suffering

and death on other sentient beings for the trivial

reasons of palate pleasure and fashion is,

without a doubt, one of the most arrogant and

morally repugnant notions in the history

of human thought.

Gary L. Francione

The greatest thing in the world is not so much

where we stand as in what direction

we are moving.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The vegan believes that if we are to be true

emancipators of animals we must renounce

absolutely our traditional and conceited

attitude that we have the right to use them

to serve our needs.

Donald Watson

Be the change you want to see in the world.

Mahatma Gandhi

Alone we can do so little;

together we can do so much.

Helen Keller

We cut the throat of a calf and hang him up

by the heels to bleed to death so that our veal

cutlet may be white; we nail geese to a board

and cram them with food because we like

the taste of liver disease; we tear birds to pieces

to decorate our women's hats; we mutilate

domestic animals for no reason at all except

to follow an instinctively cruel fashion;

and we connive at the most abominable

tortures in the hope of discovering some

magical cure for our own diseases by them.

George Bernard Shaw

Success is not achieved by the impractical who

merely contemplate, but by the individuals

who face reality head-on and take

purposeful action.

Plato

Do not take that which is not yours,

including the lives of other animals.

Anthony Douglas Williams

The time will come when humanity will extend

its mantle over everyone who breathes.

Jeremy Bentham