Tuesday, April 28, 2026

Be an Activist

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


We must take sides. Neutrality helps
the oppressor, never the victim.
Silence encourages the tormentor,
never the tormented.

Elie Wiesel


What you do makes a difference,
and you have to decide what kind
of difference you want to make.

Jane Goodall


The world will not be destroyed by those
who do evil, but by those who watch
 them without doing anything.

Albert Einstein


There are many noteworthy examples of
ordinary evil in every culture and country
around the globe, but in terms of preventable
evil I am hard pressed to find any examples
that approach those systematically perpetrated
by humans against the members of other species.

Lawrence Pope


It is more important to prevent animal suffering,
rather than sit to contemplate the evils
of the universe.

Buddha


The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression
and cruelty by the bad people but
the silence over that by the good people.

Martin Luther King, Jr.


- Make a clear intention - how do I want to contribute to this world?
- Take a leap of faith. Don't let fear determine your actions.
- Personal branding & communication skills to reach as many as possible.
- Plant seeds. You never know what they will grow into.
- Use your strengths. Direct them towards your mission.
- Have a positive vibe. Nudge and be inclusive but always maintain a clear message.


You can also commit injustice
by doing nothing.

Marcus Aurelius


Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.
Voltaire


Do your little bit of good where you are;
it's those little bits of good put together
that overwhelm the world.

Desmond Tutu


A good person will resist an evil system
with his whole soul.

Mahatma Gandhi


Think about what your skills are, and what you
enjoy doing, or what you're good at and
employ those specific skills to make
the world a better place.

Jo-Anne McArthur


It always seems impossible,
until it's done.

Nelson Mandela


An active minority always wins out
over a passive majority.

Robert Thompson


Our lives no longer belong to us alone:
they belong to all those who
need us desperately.

Eli Wiesel


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 higher authority.
Animals are in precisely that position.
Unless we speak out on their behalf,
abuse and cruelty goes unchallenged.

Desmond Tutu


Terror becomes total when it becomes
independent of all opposition; it rules
supreme when nobody any longer stands
in its way. If lawfulness is the essence of
non-tyrannical government and lawlessness
is the essence of tyranny, then terror is
the essence of totalitarian domination.

Hannah Arendt


The problem is that humans have victimized
animals to such a degree that they are
not even considered victims.
They are not considered at all.

Gary Yourofsky


If you are neutral in situations of injustice,
you have chosen the side of the oppressor.

Desmond Tutu


People who say it cannot be done
should not interrupt those who are doing it.

George Bernard Shaw


Those who love peace must learn to organize
as effectively as those who love war.

Martin Luther King, Jr.


There are many causes I would die for.
There is not a single cause I would kill for.

Mahatma Gandhi


People working together in a strong community
with a shared goal and a common purpose
can make the impossible possible.

Tom Vilsack


May our broken hearts fuel us to fix our world.
Cloe Wade


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


Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful,
committed citizens can change the world;
indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

Margaret Mead


One has a moral responsibility
to disobey unjust laws.

Martin Luther King, Jr.


Culture eats strategy for breakfast.
Peter Drucker


What you want to ignite in others
must first burn inside yourself.

Charlotte Brontรซ


Just one candle can light another and can light
thousands of other candles, so one heart
illuminates another heart and can
illuminate thousands of other hearts.

Leo Tolstoy


Many people, especially ignorant people,
want to punish you for speaking the truth,
for being correct, for being you.
Never apologize for being correct,
or for being years ahead of your time.
If you're right and you know it,
speak your mind.
Even if you are a minority of one,
the truth is still the truth.

Mahatma Gandhi


Life is no brief candle to me.
It is a sort of splendid torch
which I have got a hold of for the moment and
I want to make it burn as brightly as possible
before handing it on to future generations.

George Bernard Shaw


Be the change you want to see in the world.
Mahatma Gandhi

Sunday, April 26, 2026

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


Those who see deeply into the nature of reality
often struggle to belong, because awareness
separates them from the illusions
that comfort others.

Friedrich Nietzsche


Most people are not seeking truth - they are
searching for comfort in illusions.

Friedrich Nietzsche



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


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


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


If slaughterhouses had glass walls,
everyone would be vegetarian.

Paul McCartney


Think occasionally of the suffering of which
you spare yourself the sight.

Albert Schweitzer


To examine whether something is 'humane',
first determine whether you would
want it done to you.

Andrea Kladar


The horrifying things that are happening
to animals in order for you to keep
eating meat is inhuman.

Lewis Hamilton


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 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


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