Land of Ahimsa

All living beings have the spark of the divine

energy; therefore, to hurt another being

is to hurt oneself.

To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less

precious than that of a human being.

Mahatma Gandhi

Non-violence is not a garment to be put on

and off at will. Its seat is in the heart,

and it must be an inseparable part

of our being.

Mahatma Gandhi

It ill becomes us to invoke in our daily prayers

the blessings of God, the Compassionate,

if we in turn will not practice elemantary

compassion toward our fellow creatures.

Mahatma Gandhi

The greatness of a nation and its moral progress

can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

Mahatma Gandhi

I do feel that... we should cease to kill our fellow

creatures for the satisfaction of our bodily wants.

Mahatma Gandhi

Animals cannot speak but, but can you and  I

not speak for them and represent them?

Let us all feel their cry of agony and let us 

all help that cry to be heard in the world.

Rukmini Devi Arundale

The animal liberation movement is fighting

what is arguably the most entrenched

and widespread form of exploitation

in human history: speciesism.

Melanie Joy

Indulgence in animal killing for the taste

of the tongue is the grossest kind of ignorance.

A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

The line separating good and evil

passes not through states,

but right through every human heart.

Alexandr Solzhenitsyn

How to Talk to Meat-Eaters

I cannot teach anybody anything.

I can only make them think.

Socrates

Idealism without pragmatism is impotent.

Pragmatism without idealism is meaningless.

The key... is pragmatic idealism.

Richar M. Nixon

When dealing with people, remember you are

not dealing with creatures of logic,

but creatures of emotion.

Dale Carnegie

Never argue with stupid people,

they will drag you down to their level

and then beat you with experience.

Mark Twain

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

I don't want to belong to any club

that would accept me as a member.

Groucho Marx

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

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 is it will not be

conveyed to someone if it's spoken in anger.

Leo Tolstoy

Modern Warrior

Suffering is suffering, murder is murder

and the more helpless the victim,

the more horrific the crime.

Damien Mander

I am not a trinket

The whole concept of hunting is a very alien one

to me and I cannot comprehend how any person

can derive enjoyment or pleasure from

the suffering of another creature.

Mark Owen

Hunting is a coward's pastime.

In a world of boundless opportunities

for amusement, it's detestable that anyone

would choose to get thrills from killing

others who ask for nothing from life

but the chance to remain alive.

Roger Moore

Anyone who can not go into nature and enjoy it

without killing, should not be allowed entrance.

Henrik Ibsen

Men hunt I think, maybe, because they

have something wrong with their own

equipment and they need something

else to shoot.

Pamela Anderson

My strength needs no victims.

My strength is my compassion.

Patrik Baboumian

Jo Frederiks

Besides love and sympathy, animals exhibit

other qualities connected with the social

instincts which in us would be called moral.

Charles Darwin

If people were superior to animals,

they would take good care of them.

Winnie the Pooh

In whom there is no sympathy for living beings:

know him as an outcast.

Buddha

We cannot have peace among men whose hearts

delight in killing any living creature. By every

act that glorifies or even tolerates such

moronic delight in killing, we set back

the progress of humanity.

Rachel Carson

At his best, man is the noblest of all animals;

separated from law and justice

he is the worst.

Aristotle

🌱 Vegan for Life 💚

The stories we tell literally make the world.

If you want to change the world,

you need to change your story.

Michael Margolis

Three times a day I remind myself that

I value life and do not want to

cause pain to or kill others.

Nathalie Portman

If we begin with ourselves and do the things

that we need to do and become the best person

we can be, we have a much better chance

of changing the world for the better.

Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn

The mind that opens up to a new idea

never returns to its original size.

Albert Einstein

Humans think in stories, and we try to

make sense of the world by telling stories.

Yuval Noah Harari

Those who tell the stories rule society.

Plato

Storytelling reveals meaning without

committing the error of defining it.

Hannah Arendt

What you do makes a difference, and you have to

decide what kind of difference you want to make.

Jane Goodall

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 arc of the moral universe is long,

but it bends towards justice.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

As long as man continues to be the ruthless

destroyer of other living beings he will never

know health or peace. For as long as men

massacre animals, they will kill each other.

Indeed, he who sows the seed of murder

and pain cannot reap joy and love.

Pythagoras

In relation to animals, all people are Nazis;

for the animals it is an eternal Treblinka.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Progress is impossible without change,

and those who cannot change their minds

cannot change anything.

George Bernard Shaw

I'm opposed to fur and any kind of use of animal

products. I don't eat them, I don't wear them.

I'm not for the killing of any living creature.

Anytime it comes to any kind of animal cruelty,

I'm totally against it.

Bryan Adams

Respect life and life will respect you.

Love life and love will shower blessings on you.

Rajneesh

I am of the opinion that my life belongs to

the whole community and as long as I live,

it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can.

George Bernard Shaw

I hope life treats you as well as you treat animals.

Ricky Gervais

By choosing ourselves, we are creating

an image of what human beings should be.

Jean Paul Sartre

Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.

Albert Schweitzer

Be the change you want to see in the world.

Mahatma Gandhi

What we call love is in its essence

reverence for life.

Albert Schweitzer

Life isn't about finding yourself or finding

anything. Life is about creating

yourself and creating things.

Bob Dylan

I am an artist at living -

my work of art is my life.

D.T. Suzuki

There are two ways through life:

the way of Nature and the way of Grace.

You have to decide which one you'll follow.

Terrence Malick

Your legacy is every life you've ever toched.

Maya Angelou

My life is my message.

Mahatma Gandhi

Let your life be your argument.

Albert Schweitzer

He who has a why to live for

can bear almost any how.

Friedrich Nietzsche

I believe that the reson of life is for

each of us simply to grow in love.

Leo Tolstoy

If we could live happy and healthy lives

without harming others, why wouldn't we?

Pam Ahern

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

Atheism, Apostasy & Spirituality

Prejudice, a dirty word, and faith,

a clean one, have something in common:

they both begin where reason ends.

Harper Lee

No man ever believes that the Bible means

what it says; He is always convinced

that is says what he means.

George Bernard Shaw

The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.

William Shakespeare

Disagreement is not oppression. Argument

is not assault. Words are not violence.

The answer to speech we do not like

is more speech.

Douglas Murray

It is usually futile to try to talk facts and

analysis to people who are enjoying a sense

of moral superiority in their ignorance.

Thomas Sowell

Women and freethinkers in traditional Muslim

communities inherit a double burden. If they

want to live in the modern world, they must

confront not only the theocrats, but many

secular liberals - whose apathy, sanctimony,

and hallucinations of 'racism' throw yet

another veil over their suffering.

Sam Harris

Bolshevism is to be reckoned with

Mohammedanism rather than with

Christianity and Buddhism.

Christianity and Buddhism are primarly

personal religions, with mystical doctrines

and a love of contemplation.

Mohammedanism and Bolshevism are

practical, social, unspiritual, concerned

to win the empire of the world.

Bertrand Russell

This is my simple religion.

There is no need for temples;

no need for complicated philosophy.

Our own brain, our own heart is our temple;

The philosophy is kindness.

Dalai Lama

Morality is doing what is right, no matter

what you are told. Religion is doing

what you are told, no matter what is right.

H.L. Mencken

Serving God is to do good,

but praying is thought an easier service

and therefore more generally chosen.

Benjamin Franklin

I know that what you call 'God' really exists,

but not in the form that you think; God is primal

cosmic energy, the love in your body,

your integrity, and your perception of

the nature in you and outside of you.

Wilhelm Reich

All were happy - birds, insects and children.

But grown-up people never left off cheating and

tormenting themselves and one another. It was

not this spring morning which they considered

sacred and important, not the beauty of God's

world, given to all creatures to enjoy -

a beauty which inclines the heart to peace,

to harmony and to love.

Leo Tolstoy

No one has ever seen God; but if we love

one another, God lives in us and his

love is made complete in us.

1 John 4:12

Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.

It is daily admission of one's weakness.

It is better in prayer to have a heart without

words than words without a heart.

Mahatma Gandhi

Most people do not pray; they only beg.

George Bernard Shaw

1. Fasting.

2. Create a morning routine.

3. Daily prayer/meditation.

4. Embrace personal accountability.

5. Read.

6. Change your diet.

7. Remove negative influences.

8. Stretching & exercise.

9. Daily affirmations.

10. Healing.

There are two ways through life:

the way of Nature and the way of Grace.

You have to decide which one you'll follow.

Terrence Malick

Love a man even in his sin, for that is

the semblance of Divine Love and

is the highest love on earth.

Love all of God's creation,

the whole and every grain of sand in it.

Love every leaf, every ray of  God's light.

Love the animals, love the plants,

love everything. If you love everything,

you will perceive

the divine mystery of things.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The Life You Can Sa🧡e

What you do makes a difference, and you have to

decide what kind of difference you want to make.

Jane Goodall

Be nice to the environment.

Be nice to animals.

Be nice to people.

If you do that, you will leave

a mark on the world.

Enock Maregesi

'Animal Liberation' became the indispensable

foundational text for the movement

whose name it bore.

J.M. Coetzee

Widely recognized as the foundational text

within the animal liberation movement,

Peter Singer's Animal Liberation opened

my eyes to the radical philosophy that all

animals are worthy of equal consideration.

Joaquin Phoenix

Your legacy is every life you've ever touched.

Maya Angelou

All the arguments to prove man's superiority

cannot shatter this hard fact: in suffering

the animals are our equals.

Peter Singer

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. I am exploring new narratives

that help build a bridge across the artifical

boundaries we have established between

ourselves and other species.

Gregory Colbert

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

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

The world has enough for everyone's need,

but not enough for everyone's greed.

Mahatma Gandhi

We must change our diet. The planet

can't support billions of meat-eaters.

David Attenborough

Jo Frederiks

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

I am of the opinion that my life belongs to

the whole community and as long as I live,

it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can.

George Bernard Shaw

Many people have ideas on how others

should change; few people have ideas

on how they should change.

Leo Tolstoy

The true worth of a man is to be

measured by the objects he pursues.

Marcus Aurelius

Never decide to do nothing just because you can

only do a little. Do what you can. You would

be surprised at what "little" acts have

done for the world.

Steve Maraboli

Each one of us makes a difference every day

by the choices we make. When billions start

making ethical decisions, we can put

the world on the right track.

Jane Goodall

A man is ethical only when he obeys

the compulsion to help all life which

he is able to assist, and shrinks from

injuring anyone who lives.

Albert Schweitzer

The difference between what we do and what we

are capable of doing would suffice to solve

most of the world's problems.

Mahatma Gandhi

Do your little bit of good where you are;

it's those little bits of good put together

that overwhelm the world.

Desmond Tutu

May our broken hearts fuel us to fix our world.

Cloe Wade