Why Don't Vegans Ride Animals? 🐎

The animals of the world exist for their own

reasons. They were not made for humans

any more than black people were made

for white, or women created for men.

Alice Walker

I sit on a man's back, choking him and making

him carry me, and yet assure myself and others

that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease

his lot by all possible means - except

by getting off his back.

Leo Tolstoy

He who is not a good servant

will not be a good master.

Plato

If I can stop one heart from breaking,

I shall not live in vain,

If I can ease one life the aching,

Or cool one pain,

Or help one fainting robin

Unto his nest again,

I shall not live in vain.

Emily Dickinson

The Measure of Man

The measure of a man is 

what he does with power.

Plato

The ultimate measure of a man is not

where he stands in moment of comfort

and convenience, but where he stands

at times of challenge and controversy.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

The human being cannot live in a condition

of emptiness for very long: if he is not growing

toward something, he does not merely stagnate;

the pent-up potentialities turn into morbidity

and despair, and eventually into

destructive activities.

Rollo May

No man is more unhappy than he who never

faces adversity. For he is not permitted

to prove himself.

Seneca

The greatness of a man is not in how much

wealth he acquires, but in his integrity

and his ability to affect those

around him positively.

Bob Marley

A life without self-reflection and exploration

is not one worth living.

Socrates

Only a man who knows what it is like to be

defeated can reach down to the bottom of

his soul and come up with the extra

ounce of power it takes to win

when the match is even.

Muhammad Ali

The obedient always thinks of themselves

as virtuous rather than cowardly.

George Carlin

The key to happiness doesn't lay in numbers in a

bank account but in the way we make others feel

and the way they make us feel.

Joe Rogan

The true worth of a man is to be

measured by the objects he pursues.

Marcus Aurelius

The only source of knowledge is experience.

Albert Einstein

Excellence in anything increases

your potential in everything.

Joe Rogan

You are in danger of living a life so comfortable

and soft, that you will die without ever

realizing your true potential.

David Goggins

Pursue what's in your heart, and

the universe will conspire to support you.

Rich Roll

We can judge the heart of a man

by his treatment of animals.

Immanuel Kant

In compassion lies the world's true strength.

Buddha

We should be measured by how we treat

the most vulnerable and powerless

in our society.

Cory Booker

Do not go where the path may lead. Go instead

where there is no path and leave a trail.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

My way of joking is to tell the truth.

It's the funniest joke in the world.

George Bernard Shaw

Whoever fights monsters should see to it that

in the process he does not become a monster.

And if you gaze long enough into an abyss,

the abyss will gaze back into you.

Friedrich Nietzsche

When evil men plot, good men must plan.

When evil men burn and bomb,

good men must build and bind.

When evil men shout ugly words of hatred,

good men must commit themselves

to the glories of love.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Fearful men control, intelligent men analyze,

but wise men listen with intent to understand.

J. Mike Fields

If we have to have a choice between being dead

and pitied, and being alive with a bad image,

we'd rather be alive and have the bad image.

Golda Meir

Intelligence is measured by a person's

ability to see validity within both sides

of contradicting arguments.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Democracy is the worst form of government,

except for all the others.

Winston Churchill

I'm in favor of animal rights as well as human

rights. That is the way of a whole human being.

Abraham Lincoln

Nature, in her indifference, makes no

distinction between good and evil.

Anatole France

Chaos was the law of nature;

order was the dream of man.

Henry Adams

If you are not liberal when you are young,

you have no heart,

and if you are not conservative when old,

you have no brain.

Winston Churchill

Competition is the law of the jungle,

but cooperation is the law of civilization.

Peter Kropotkin

When bad men combine, the good must

associate; else they will fall one by one.

Edmund Burke

If we are not prepared to defend a tolerant

society, then the tolerant will be destroyed,

and tolerance with them. We should

therefore claim, in the name of tolerance,

the right not to tolerate the intolerant.

Karl Popper

Someone Not Something

The animals of the world exist for their own

reasons. They were not made for humans

any more than black people were made

for white, or women created for men.

Alice Walker

Human are best protector or worst destroyer

of nature and humanity itself.

Sandeep Sahajpal

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

Animals are not ours to eat, wear,

experiment on, use for entertainment

or for any exploitative purpose.

Sharon Gannon

I don't see why someone should lose their life

just so you can have a snack.

Russell Brand

Animals are my friends...

and I don't eat my friends.

George Bernard Shaw

Anyone who moves is not

supposed to be eaten.

Bob Marley

I hold that the more helpless a creature,

the more entitled it is to protection

by man from the cruelty of man.

Mahatma Gandhi

The soul given to each of us is moved by

the same living spirit that moves the Universe.

Albert Einstein

In every living being there is the desire for love.

D.H. Lawrence

There is no fundamental difference between man

and animals in their ability to feel pleasure

and pain, happiness and misery.

Charles Darwin

Jo Frederiks

We've objectified certain animals so much

that we refer to them as 'livestock'.

'Stock' that just so happens to be alive.

An inconvenience that they were

even alive to begin with.

Ed Winters

I don’t want to eat anything that had a mother.

Fred Rogers

The pain that we cause is the cause of our pain.

Leif Erikson

Only those who are capable of loving strongly

can also suffer great sorrow, but this same

necessity of loving serves to counteract

their grief and heals them.

Leo Tolstoy

Jo Frederiks

One should not kill a living being,

nor cause anyone to be killed,

nor should one incite another to kill.

Do not injure any being,

either strong or weak, in the world.

Buddha

The world is not a factory and

animals are not products for our use.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Asian Stereotypes

Stereotypes, they're sensual, cultural weapons.

That's the way that we attack people. At an

artistic level, stereotypes are terrible writing.

Junot Diaz

"Neoteny" is "remaining young" and... human

evolution has been dominated by it. Behavioral

traits such as curiosity about the world,

flexibility of response, and playfulness is common

to all young mammals... Humanity has

advanced, not because it has been sober,

responsible, and cautious, but because it has

been playful, rebellious, and immature.

Tom Robbins

It is not the strongest of the species that survive,

nor the most intelligent,

but the one most responsive to change.

Charles Darwin

The most potent weapon in the hands

of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.

Steven Bantu Biko

The pursuit of otherness, the sense that we are

somehow different than our brothers and sisters,

allows for all the great evils.

Anna Quindlen

The problem with stereotypes is not that they are

untrue, but that they are incomplete.

They make one story become the only story.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Eroticism is first and foremost

a thirst for otherness.

Octavio Paz

Wokism & Infighting

The task is not, so much to see what no one

has seen yet; but to think what nobody has 

thought yet, about that which everybody sees.

Arthur Schopenhauer

If you have men who will exclude any of God's

creatures from the shelter of compassion,

you will have men who will deal

 likewise with their fellow men.

St. Francis of Assisi

Speciesism is like racism, sexism and

homophobia: it involves using a morally

irrelevant criterion to block membership

in the moral community.

Gary L. Francione

It is not an act of kindness to treat animals

respectfully. It is an act of justice.

Tom Regan

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

Injustice anywhere is a threat

to justice everywhere.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Freedom, human rights, tolerance, peace

and prosperity are like the eternal flame

that must be guarded, nurtured and never,

ever taken for granted.

Konstantin Kisin

Love your enemies, for they tell you your faults.

Benjamin Franklin

I'm not entitled to have an opinion unless

I can state the arguments against my position

better than the people who are in opposition.

I am qualified to speak only when

I've reached that state.

Charlie Munger

When you see a good man, try to emulate

his example, and when you see a bad man,

search yourself for his faults.

Confucius

People who say things like "I can't worry

about animals when there are humans

who need help" tend to do f*ck all

to help humans neither...

Kindness is kindness. Simple as that.

Ricky Gervais

A ruler who hides behind paid executioners

soon forgets what death is.

George R.R. Martin

The price good men pay for indifference to

public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.

Plato

There is only one thing worse than fighting with

your allies, and that is fighting without them.

Winston Churchill

Evil people always support each other;

that is their chief strength.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Those who love peace must learn to organize

as effectively as those who love war.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

When bad men combine, the good must

associate; else they will fall one by one.

Edmund Burke

From Trauma To Triumph

Your wounds lead you to your purpose.

Mastin Kipp

It can ruin you life only if it ruins your character.

Marcus Aurelius

The dark does not destroy the light: it defines it.

Brené Brown

Sometimes the only way we can survive our own

memories is to shape them into a story

that makes sense out of events

that seem inexplicable.

Yeonmi Park

We can't learn without pain.

Aristotle

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet.

Only through experience of trial and suffering

can the soul be strenghtened, ambition

inspired, and success achieved.

Helen Keller

Given the choice between the experience of pain

and nothing, I would choose pain.

William Faulkner

Recognize that your birth was a response to

the world's requirements, not solely

your own wishes.

Epictetus

Don't lose faith. Promise yourself that you will

be a success story, and I promise you that all

the forces of the universe will unite to come

to your aid; you might not feel today or

for a while, but the longer you wait

the bigger the prize.

George Bernard Shaw

The purpose of life is not to be happy.

It is to be useful, to be honorable,

to be compassionate, to have it make some

difference that you have lived and lived well.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We should try to be parents of our future

rather than the offspring of our past.

Miguel de Unamuno

What is to give light must endure burning.

Viktor Frankl

Success, like happiness, cannot be pursued;

it must ensue, and it only does so as the side

effect of one's personal dedication to a cause

greater than oneself.

Viktor Frankl

There are ships sailing to many ports,

but not a single one goes where

life is not painful.

Fernando Pessoa

The wound is the place

where the light enters you.

Rumi

Eventually, you will come to understand that

love heals everything and love is all there is.

Gary Zukav

May our broken hearts fuel us to fix our world.

Cleo Wade

Stå stilla i smärtan

rotad i det som är ljus i dig.

Låt svärdet gå genom dig.

Kanske det inte alls är ett svärd.

Kanske det är en stämgaffel.

Du blir en ton.

Du blir den musik du alltid

längtat efter att få höra.

Du visste inte att du var en sång.

Ylva Eggehorn

God's Creatures 🐄🐑🦃🐠🐖

Earth was created for all of us, not some of us.

Anthony Douglas Williams

"Thou shall not kill" does not apply to murder

of one's own kind only, but to all living beings;

and this commandment was inscribed in

the human heart long before it was

proclaimed from Sinai.

Leo Tolstoy

The basis of all animal rights should be

the Golden Rule: we should treat them as we

would wish them to treat us, were any

other species in our dominant position.

Christine Stevens

We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation,

and have treated our distant cousins in fur

and feathers so badly that beyond doubt,

if they were able to formulate a religion,

they would depict the Devil in human form.

William Ralph Inge

The Gods created certain kinds of beings

to replenish our bodies; they are the trees

and the plants and the seeds.

Plato

Why should man expect his prayer for mercy

to be heard by what is above him when he

shows no mercy to those under his power?

Pierre Troubetzkoy

Where love is, there God is also.

Mahatma Gandhi

There is no religion without love, and people may

talk as much as they like about their religion,

but if it does not teach them to be kind

to man and animals, it is all a sham.

Anna Sewell

I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians.

Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.

Mahatma Gandhi

For if animals are God's creatures, we have no

absolute rights over them, only the duty to look

after them as God would look after them.

To stand with Jesus is to reject our view of

ourselves as gods and lords of creation. We are

to honor life for the sake of the Lord of the life.

Andrew Linzey

It ill becomes us to invoke in our daily prayers

the blessing of God, the Compassionate,

if we in turn will not practice elemantary

compassion toward our fellow creatures.

Mahatma Gandhi

Those who are merciful will be shown mercy

by the Most Merciful. Be merciful to those

on the earth and the One in the heavens

will have mercy on you.

Mishkat al-Masabih: Book 6, Chapter 7, 8:178

My religion is based on truth and non-violence.

Truth is my God. Non-violence is

the means of realising him.

Mahatma Gandhi

Man worships an invisible God

and destroys a visible Nature.

Unaware that this Nature he's destroying

is this God he's worshiping.

Hubert Reeves

Be kind to all creatures.

This is the true religion.

Buddha

Ajar Setiadi

No God would be a slave master,

a torturer and a killer of his animals, his babies.

If he was, then he would not be God.

He would be the Devil.

Gary Yourofsky

The Best Arguments Against Veganism

To find yourself, think for yourself.

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

I try to encourage people to think for themselves,

to question standard assumptions... Don't take

assumptions for granted. Begin by taking a

skeptical attitude toward anything that is

conventional wisdom. Make it justify itself.

Be willing to ask questions about what

is taken for granted. Try to think

things through for yourself.

Noam Chomsky

It is impossible for a man to learn

what he thinks he already knows.

Epictetus

Many are destined  to reason wrongly; others,

not to reason at all; and others to persecute

those who do reason.

Voltaire

Those who will not reason, are bigots,

those who cannot, are fools,

and those who dare not, are slaves.

Lord Byron

The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die.

As well the minds which are prevented from

changing their opinions; they cease to be mind.

Friedrich Nietzsche

You were not made to live as brutes,

but to follow virtue and knowledge.

Dante Alighieri

Let me give you a definition of ethics:

it is good to maintain and further life

it is bad to damage and destroy life.

Albert Schweitzer

Two percent of the people think.

Three percent of the people think they think.

And ninty-five percent of the people

would rather die than think.

George Bernard Shaw

Don't worry about siding for or against

the majority. Worry about taking up

any of their irrational beliefs.

Marcus Aurelius

It is difficult to get a man to understand

something when his salary depends on

his not understanding it.

Upton Sinclair

All the arguments to prove man's superiority

cannot shatter this hard fact:

in suffering the animals are our equals.

Peter Singer

The roots of education are bitter,

but the fruit is sweet.

Aristotle

Ultimately evil is done not so much by evil

people, but by good people who do not

know themselves and who do not

probe deeply.

Reinhold Niebuhr

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

Progress is impossible without change,

and those who cannot change their minds

cannot change anything.

George Bernard Shaw

The worst sin towards our fellow creatures

is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them:

that's the essence of inhumanity.

George Bernard Shaw