💞 Holy Cow 🐄

Cows are amongst the gentlest of breathing

creatures; none show more passionate tenderness

to their young when deprived of them; and,

in short, I am not ashamed to profess a deep

love for these quiet creatures.

Thomas de Quincey

The animals you eat are not those who devour

others; you do not eat the carnivorous beasts,

you take them as your pattern. You only

hunger for the sweet and gentle creatures

which harm no one, which follow you,

serve you, and are devoured by you

as the reward of their service.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

We know things about her that no one should

ever know, or want to know, about a fellow

being... the taste, texture and flavor of every

aspect of her despair, degradation and defeat.

We know every detail of what we have forced

her to be - an object to consume and excrete.

What we don't know, what we don't want to

know, is what we must know if we are

to restore our own humanity: who she is.

Joanna Lucas

 If we could live happy and healthy lives

without harming others,

why wouldn't we?

Pam Ahern

Animals are my friends...

and I don't eat my friends.

George Bernard Shaw

What we call love is in its essence

reverence for life.

Albert Schweitzer

This image was taken on a "kill line" inside

a slaughterhouse... My heart is

irreparably broken.

Sande Seldman Nosonowitz

Our prime purpose in this life is to help others.

And if you can't help them, at least

don't hurt them.

Dalai Lama

Create all the happiness you are able to create;

remove all the misery you are able to remove.

Every day will allow you, will invite you to

add something to the pleasure of others,

or to diminish something of their pains.

Jeremy Bentham

Man is as much a parasite on the cow

as the tapeworm is on man.

Milan Kundera

To know even one life has breathed easier

because you have lived. This is

to have succeeded.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Animals have personalities like people.

Walt Disney

In every living being there is the desire for love.

D.H. Lawrence

A mother's love does not derive from

the intellect but from the emotions,

in animals just as in humans.

Maimonides

Now I can look at you in peace;

I don't eat you anymore.

Franz Kafka

In the end, only three things matter:

how much you loved, how gently you

lived, and how gracefully you let go

of things not meant for you.

Buddha

How CD Controls Your Life

No man is capable of causing great evil

without thinking he's doing the right thing.

Socrates

Jo Frederiks

The indifference, callousness and contempt

that so many people exhibit toward animals

is evil first because it results in great suffering

in animals, and second because it results in

an incalculably great impoverishment

of the human spirit.

Albert Einstein

Evil comes from a failure to think.

It defies thought for as soon as thought

tries to engage itself with evil and examine

the premises and principles from which it

originates, it is frustrated because

it finds nothing there.

That is the banality of evil.

Hannah Arendt

People seldom do what they believe in.

They do what is convenient.

Bob Dylan

It's troubling when people get upset with vegans

for pointing out the suffering, rather than

getting upset with themselves for causing it.

Jo Tyler

Everything that irritates us about others

can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

Carl Jung

Those who lack the courage will always

find a philosophy to justify it.

Albert Camus

Psychologically speaking, one may say that

the hypocrite is too ambitious; not only does

he want to appear virtuous before others,

he wants to convince himself... Only

the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.

Hannah Arendt

I cannot conceive of a greater loss

than the loss of one's self-respect.

Mahatma Gandhi

Jo Frederiks

It is not what we eat but what we digest

that makes us strong;

not what we gain but what we save

that makes us rich;

not what we read but what we remember

that makes us learned; and

not what we profess but what we practice

that gives us integrity.

Francis Bacon

Integrity is choosing your thoughts and actions

based on values rather than personal gain.

Chris Karcher

To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest

thing in the world is to act in accordance

with your thinking.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Often, vegan advocates assume that a person's

defensiveness is the result of selfishness or

apathy, when in fact it is much more

likely the result of systematic and

intensive social conditioning.

Melanie Joy

Teaching a child not to step on a caterpillar

is almost as valuable to the child

as it is to the caterpillar.

Bradley Miller

Happiness is when what you think,

what you say and what you do

are in harmony.

Mahatma Gandhi

If a man aspires towards a righteous life,

his first act of abstinence is

from injury to animals.

Albert Einstein

The reward for doing right is mostly

an internal phenomen; self-respect,

dignity, integrity, and self-esteem.

Laura Schlessinger