The Life You Can Sa🧡e

What you do makes a difference, and you have to

decide what kind of difference you want to make.

Jane Goodall

Be nice to the environment.

Be nice to animals.

Be nice to people.

If you do that, you will leave

a mark on the world.

Enock Maregesi

'Animal Liberation' became the indispensable

foundational text for the movement

whose name it bore.

J.M. Coetzee

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

Your legacy is every life you've ever touched.

Maya Angelou

All the arguments to prove man's superiority

cannot shatter this hard fact: in suffering

the animals are our equals.

Peter Singer

The destiny of animals cannot be separated

from the destiny of man, and the destiny

of man cannot be separated from the destiny

of all of nature. I am exploring new narratives

that help build a bridge across the artifical

boundaries we have established between

ourselves and other species.

Gregory Colbert

Our task must be to free ourselves... by widening

our circle of compassion to embrace all living

creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.

Albert Einstein

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

The world has enough for everyone's need,

but not enough for everyone's greed.

Mahatma Gandhi

We must change our diet. The planet

can't support billions of meat-eaters.

David Attenborough

Jo Frederiks

I think there is a connection between the way

we treat animals and the way we treat people

who are at the bottom of the hierarchy.

Angela Davis

I am of the opinion that my life belongs to

the whole community and as long as I live,

it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can.

George Bernard Shaw

Many people have ideas on how others

should change; few people have ideas

on how they should change.

Leo Tolstoy

The true worth of a man is to be

measured by the objects he pursues.

Marcus Aurelius

Never decide to do nothing just because you can

only do a little. Do what you can. You would

be surprised at what "little" acts have

done for the world.

Steve Maraboli

Each one of us makes a difference every day

by the choices we make. When billions start

making ethical decisions, we can put

the world on the right track.

Jane Goodall

A man is ethical only when he obeys

the compulsion to help all life which

he is able to assist, and shrinks from

injuring anyone who lives.

Albert Schweitzer

The difference between what we do and what we

are capable of doing would suffice to solve

most of the world's problems.

Mahatma Gandhi

May our broken hearts fuel us to fix our world.

Cloe Wade

📷 Ethics & Art 🖌️

Art is not what you see,

but what you make others see.

Edgar Degas

Today's Guernica

You use a glass mirror to see your face;

you use works of art to see your soul.

George Bernard Shaw

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

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.