How to Talk to Meat-Eaters

I cannot teach anybody anything.

I can only make them think.

Socrates

When dealing with people, remember you are

not dealing with creatures of logic,

but creatures of emotion.

Dale Carnegie

Shame corrodes the very part of us

that believes we are capable of change...

Guilt is just as powerful, but its influence

is positive, while shame is destructive.

Brené Brown

The two words 'information' and

'communication' are often used

interchangeably, but they signify

 quite different things.

Information is giving out;

communication is getting through.

Sydney J. Harris

The superior man thinks of virtue;

the common man thinks of comfort.

Confucius

The best way to convince someone is by

making him realize that what you speak

came from his own mind.

Alan Watts

The most difficult subjects can be explained

to the most slow-witted man if he has not

formed any idea of them already; but

the simplest thing cannot be made clear

to the most intelligent man if he is firmly

persuaded that he knows already,

without a shadow of doubt,

what is laid before him.

Leo Tolstoy

Hypocrisy in anything whatever may deceive

the cleverest and most penetrating man,

but the least wide-awake of children

recognizes it, and is revolted by it,

however ingeniously it may be disguised.

Leo Tolstoy

The very man who has argued you down,

will sometimes be found, years later,

to have been influenced by what you said.

C.S. Lewis

People may hear your words,

but they feel your attitude.

John C. Maxwell

Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.

Simone de Beauvoir

It is vital that we be mindful of our language

choices as activists, lest we end up advocating

the very things we are fighting against.

Emily Moran Barwick

First, they ignore you, then they laugh at you,

then they fight you, then you win.

Mahatma Gandhi

The changes in our life must come from

the impossibility to live otherwise than to

the demands of our conscience, not from our

mental resolution to try a new form of life.

Leo Tolstoy

In order for the truth to be heard, it must

be spoken with love. No matter how wise

and true a spoken word will not be conveyed

to someone if it's spoken in anger.

Leo Tolstoy

🦊 Cruelty-Free Shopping 🐇

If one person is unkind to an animal

it is considered to be cruelty,

but if a lot of people are unkind to animals

(especially in the name of profit)

the cruelty is condoned and will be defended

by otherwise intelligent people.

Ruth Harrison

Behind every fur, there is a story.

It is a bloody, barbaric story.

Mary Tyler Moore

There is no kind way to rip the skin of animal's

backs. Anyone who wears any fur shares

the blame for the torture and gruesome deaths

of millions of animals each year.

Natalie Imbruglia

To be vegan is to disagree with cruelty.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Jo Frederiks

Wearing cosmetics that were tested on

animals makes you ugly on the inside.

Ricky Gervais

Being vegan for me is about trying to live a life

where I'm not contributing to

the cruelty in the world.

Jessica Chastain

Animals run no risk of going to hell.

They are already there.

Victor Hugo

Kill To Dress

People speak sometimes about the "bestial"

cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust

and offensive to beasts, no animal could

ever be so cruel as man, so artfully, so

artistically cruel.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Veganism is not a diet.

It is a rejection of violence.

Marlana Mazmanian McCliman

The world is not a factory and animals

are not products for our use.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Money, Money, Money... 💰

The best investment you can make,

is an investment in yourself.

Warren Buffet

Continuous effort is the key

to unlocking your potential.

Winston Churchill

Wealth is the slave of the wise man

and master of the fool.

Seneca

A calm mind, a fit body, and a house full of love.

These cannot be bought.

They must be earned.

Naval Ravikant

Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure,

when he is really selling himself to it.

Benjamin Franklin

1. Determine your need.

2. Sell what you don't need. Tax deductible donations.

3. Make a meal plan.

4. Enjoy simplicity.

5. Repair and take care.

6. Research. 

Is it worth the cost?

What will be the cost per use?

Will I get enough value out of it?

Is it something I want to take care of?

Is it worth taking up space in my home?

7. Shop second hand.

8. Remove temptations.

Beware of little expenses.

A small leak will sink a great ship.

Benjamin Franklin

There are two ways to increase your wealth.

Increase your means or decrease your wants.

The best is to do both at the same time.

Benjamin Franklin

1. Don't save - invest!

2. Negotiate.

3. Assess your true needs.

Is this vital for my well-being?

Is this something I need for my day-to-day routine?

Is this purchase out of my own insecurity

or something the media is pushing me to buy?

If I didn't buy this, what's the worst that could happen?

4. Create a financial calendar.

5. Know your number.

6. Research community resources.

7. Take advantage of credit cards.

8. Cultivate relationships around you.

1. Know your "happiness number".

2. Keep lifestyle inflation in check.

3. Invest in your well-being first.

4. Focus on building your story. Don't compare yourself to others.

5. Choose the option that brings the most value.

If it doesn't bring peace, profits or purpose

then don't give it your time, energy or attention.

Morgan Richard Olivier

Happy Thanksgiving

Understand that... you own nothing.

Everything that surround you is temporary,

only the love in your heart will last.

Buddha

He who is not contended with what he has,

would not be contended with what

he would like to have.

Socrates

Happiness is the spiritual experience of living

every minute with love, grace and gratitude.

Denis Waitley

Comparison is the thief of joy.

Theodore Roosevelt

A good heart will refuse the happiness

built on misfortune of others.

Saadie

Create all the happiness you are able to create;

remove all the misery you are able to remove.

Every day will allow you, will invite you to

add something to the pleasure of others,

or to diminish something of their pains.

Jeremy Bentham

Where there is love there is life.

Mahatma Gandhi

Ethics & Aesthetics

Art is not what you see,

but what you make others see.

Edgar Degas

Today's Guernica

You use a glass mirror to see your face;

you use works of art to see your soul.

George Bernard Shaw

Aesthetics is the mother of ethics.

Joseph Brodsky

Indefensible

Ethics is the aesthetics of the soul.

Pierre Reverdy

Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.

Albert Schweitzer

Nick Brandt

Non-violence, which is the quality of the heart,

cannot come by an appeal to the brain.

Mahatma Gandhi

From beasts we scorn as soulless,

in forest, field and den,

the cry goes up to witness,

the soullessness of men.

M. Frida Hartley

It is our hearts, not just our heads, that call

for an end to it all, that demand of us that we

overcome, for them, the habits and forces behind

their systematic oppression. That requires

both our passion and our discipline.

The fate of animals is in our hands.

God grant we are equal to the task.

Tom Regan

Reason is the slave of the passions.

David Hume

To have compassion means to have passion

for all things... for all human beings,

for the animals... everything the earth contains.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

We Are All 269

We must realize that all life is valuable

and that we are united to all life.

Albert Schweitzer

I am an artist at living -

my work of art is my life.

D.T. Suzuki

The opposite of love is not hate,

it's indifference.

The opposite of art is not ugliness,

it's indifference.

The opposite of faith is not heresy,

it's indifference.

The opposite of life is not death,

it's indifference.

Elie Wiesel

Jo Frederiks

I've Seen You in the Meat Aisle

~ by Emma Murphy

I've seen you in the meat aisle,

Seen you choosing who to eat,

Eyeing up their body parts

In rows all nice and neat.

I've seen you grabbing bottled milk

That wasn't made for you

And I know you never think about

The suffering they knew.

I've watched your fill your trolley up

With misery and pain,

Eggs and cheese, a leg, a wing,

My heart just broke again.

You say I should respect your choice,

That it's your right to choose,

Well, legally perhaps you win,

But morally, you lose.

I don't know how you do it

But you close your ears and eyes

To the slaughterhouse, the blood and screams,

Their fear, despair and cries.

It doesn't even cross your mind,

You bite and drink and chew,

And you keep yourself from knowing

That they died because of you.

So no, I don't respect your choice,

There's no respect from me.

You are putting in your stomach

Someone you refuse to see.

The animals, they have no voice,

Convenient for you,

But have a heart and look at those

Who lost their lives for you.

Someone, not something

War on Women

Before you think good or evil, who are you?

Huineng

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 reasonable man adapts himself to the world;

the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt

the world to himself. Therefore all progress

depends on the unreasonable man.

George Bernard Shaw

I sometimes try to imagine what would have

happened if we'd known the bonobo first

and the chimpanzee only later - or not at all.

The discussion about human evolution might not

revolve as much around violence, warfare and

male dominance, but rather around sexuality,

empathy, caring and cooperation.

Frans de Waal

The arc of the moral universe is long,

but it bends towards justice.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

It is impossible to think of the welfare of

the world unless the condition of women

is improved. It is not possible for a bird

to fly on only one wing.

Swami Vivekananda

The number of people with any criteria for

distinguishing between good and evil

is very small.

T.S. Eliot

One's life has value so long as one attributes

value to the life of others, by means of love,

friendship, indignation and compassion.

Simone de Beauvoir

I think there is a connection between the way

we treat animals and the way we treat people

who are at the bottom of the hierarchy.

Angela Davis

The worst thing that we can do as women

is not stand up for each other, and this is

something we can practice every day,

no matter where we are and what we do

- women sticking up for other women,

choosing to protect and celebrate each other

instead of competing or critizing each other.

Amal Clooney

The question is not whether we will be extremists,

but what kind of extremists we will be. For hate

or for love? For the preservation of injustice

or for the extension of justice?

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Competition is the law of the jungle,

but cooperation is the law of civilization.

Peter Kropotkin

When I despair, I remember that all through

history the way of truth and love has always

won. There have been tyrants and murderers

and for a time they seem invincible, but in

the end they always fall... think of it, always.

Mahatma Gandhi

Femininity at Work

The quality of your work reflects the quality

of your character. Focus on excellence in

all you do, and success will follow.

Epictetus

Don't climb mountains so that people

can see you. Climb mountains so

that you can see the world.

David McCullough Jr.

Don't pray for lighter burdens,

but for stronger backs.

Buddha

All anyone really requires to start a successful

career is a sound mind, a healthy body,

and a genuine desire to be as much service

as possible to as many people as possible.

Napoleon Hill

No matter how isolated you are and how

lonely you feel, if you do your work truly

and conscientiously, unknown friends

will come and seek you.

Carl Jung

No one can ride on the back

of a man unless it is bent.

Mahatma Gandhi

Criticism fulfils the same function as pain

in the human body. It calls attention to

an unhealthy state of things.

Winston Churchill

A day of worry is more exhausting

than a week of work.

John Lubbock

Your work is going to fill a large part of your life,

and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do

what you believe is great work. And

the only way to do great work

is to love what you do.

Steve Jobs

My hunger is not for success,

it is for excellence.

Mike Krzyzewski

The worst thing that we can do as women

is not stand up for each other, and this is

something we can practice every day,

no matter where we are and what we do

- women sticking up for other women,

choosing to protect and celebrate each other

instead of competing or critizing each other.

Amal Clooney

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

Euphemism is a human device to conceal

the horrors of reality.

Paul Johnson

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