Saturday, February 8, 2025

πŸ– Make the Connection πŸ„πŸ–πŸ‘

Compassion is ethical intelligence:
it is the capacity to make connections
and the consequent urge to act
to relieve the suffering of others.

Will Tuttle


I stopped eating meat some 50 years ago
when I looked at the pork chop on my plate
and thought: this represents fear, pain, death.

Jane Goodall


Don't talk of love and peace when you
have a dead animal on your plate.

Socrates



I am determined not to kill, not to let others kill,
and not to support any act of killing in the world.
We should consume in such a way that helps
to reduce the suffering of living beings.
And that way we can preserve
compassion in our hearts.

Thich Nhat Hanh


Non-violence, which is the quality of the heart,
cannot come by an appeal to the brain.

Mahatma Gandhi


Until he extends his circle of compassion
to include all living creatures,
man will not himself find peace.

Albert Schweitzer


Every other knowledge is harmful to him
who does not have knowledge of goodness.

Michel de Montaigne


Compassion, in which all ethics must take root,
can only attain its full breadth and depth
if it embraces all living creatures and
does not limit itself to mankind.

Albert Schweitzer


Man is the only to whom the torture and death
of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.

James Anthony Froude


Compassion is an unstable emotion.
It needs to be translated into action,
or it withers.

Susan Sontag


What do they know - all these scholars, all these
philosophers, all the leaders of the world -
about such as you? They have convinced
themselves that man, the worst transgressor
of all the species, is the crown of creation.
All other creatures were created merely to
provide him with food, pelts,
to be tormented, exterminated.

Isaac Bashevis Singer


Animals and humans suffer and die alike.
Violence causes the same pain, the same
spilling of blood, the same stench of death,
the same arrogant, cruel, and brutal taking
of life. We don't have to be part of it.

Dick Gregory


A brave man will try to make the evil
stop with him.

Saul Bellow


I felt that if I were to continue to live
in this world I had to do what I could
to reduce the suffering around me,
or at the very least, not to add to it....
I gave up eating meat.
I have not eaten it since.

Nick Cave

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