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
No man is capable of causing great evil
without thinking he's doing the right thing.
Socrates
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
If a man aspires towards a righteous life,
his first act of abstinence is
from injury to animals.
Albert Einstein
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
The principle can be established that for a man
who does not cheat, what he believes to be true
must determine his action.
Albert Camus
I cannot conceive of a greater loss
than the loss of one's self-respect.
Mahatma Gandhi
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
Formula for healthy relating:
practice integrity + honor dignity = connection and security
Integrity is the integration of the core moral values of compassion and justice and behaviors. It's treating others with respect.
Dignity is one's sense of inherent worth. When we honor someone's dignity, we percieve and treat them as no less worthy of respect than anyone else.
The reward for doing right is mostly
an internal phenomen; self-respect,
dignity, integrity, and self-esteem.
Laura Schlessinger
Happiness is when what you think,
what you say and what you do
are in harmony.
Mahatma Gandhi
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