The whole universe is sum up in the human
being. Devil is not a monster waiting to
trap us. He is a voice inside. Look for your
devil in yourself, not in the others. Don't
forget that the one who knows his devil,
knows his God.
Shams Tabrizi
10 percent of any population is cruel,
no matter what, and 10 percent is merciful,
no matter what, and the remaining
80 percent can be moved in any direction.
Susan Sontag
When all are guilty, no one is;
and the very magnitude of the crime
becomes the best excuse for doing nothing.
Hannah Arendt
Any of us has the capacity for atrocity -
just as each of us has the capacity for heroism.
David Mamet
Your beliefs become your thoughts,
your thoughts become your words,
you words become your actions,
your actions become your habits,
your habits become your values,
your values become your destiny.
Mahatma Gandhi
A long habit of not thinking a thing is wrong,
gives it a superficial appearance of being right.
Thomas Paine
Only with awareness of carnism
can we reclaim our freedom of choice;
without awareness, there is no free choice.
Melanie Joy
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
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
There are no conditions to which a person cannot
grow accustomed, especially if he sees that
everyone around him lives in the same way.
Leo Tolstoy
Monsters exist, but they are too few in number
to be truly dangerous. More dangerous
are the common men, the functionaries
ready to believe and to act
without asking questions.
Primo Levi
Compassion is an unstable emotion.
It needs to be translated into action,
or it withers.
Susan Sontag
The individual has always had to struggle
to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe.
If you try it, you will be lonely often, and
sometimes frightened. But no price is too high
to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.
Rudyard Kipling
Both optimists and pessimists contributes
to society. The optimist invents the airplane,
the pessimist the parachute.
Bernard Shaw
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
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.
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.
Bernard Shaw
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