Right to Rescue

Never, never be afraid to do what's right,

especially if the well-being of a person

or animal is at stake. Society's punishments

are small compared to the wounds we inflict

on our soul when we look the other way.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Jo Frederiks

Atrocities are not less atrocities when they occur

in laboratories and are called medical research.

George Bernard Shaw

I abhor vivisection with my whole soul. All

the scientific discoveries stained with innocent

blood I count as of no consequence.

Mahatma Gandhi

Run to the rescue with love and peace will follow.

River Phoenix

Vivisection is a social evil because if it

advances human knowledge, it does so

at the expense of human character.

George Bernard Shaw

Whether we exploit animals to eat, wear, to

entertain us, or to learn, the truth of animal

rights requires empty cages, not larger cages.

Tom Regan

Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.

Adam Smith

One has a moral responsibility

to disobey unjust laws.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

An unjust law is itself a species of violence.

Arrest for its breach is more so.

Mahatma Gandhi

The day may come when the rest of the animal

creation acquire those rights which never

could have been withholden from them

but by the hand of tyranny.

Jeremy Bentham

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

What I think about vivisection is that if people

admit that they have the right to take the life

of living beings for the benefit of many,

there will be no limit to their cruelty.

Leo Tolstoy

The assumption that animals are without

rights and the illusion that our treatment

of them has no moral significance is a

positively outrageous example of human

crudity and barbarity. Universal compassion

is the only guarantee of morality.

Arthur Schopenhauer

If possessing a higher degree of intelligence

does not entitle one human to use another

for his or her own ends, how can it entitle

humans to exploit non-humans?

Peter Singer

I have seen firsthand how injustice

gets overlooked when the victims are

powerless or vulnerable, when they have

no one to speak up for them and no means of

representing themselves to a higher authority.

Animals are in precisely that position.

Unless we speak out on their behalf,

abuse and cruelty goes unchallenged.

Desmond Tutu

A basic fact about nonviolent resistence is

that it is based on the conviction that

the universe is on the side of justice.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

There can be no doubt as to which side is right

and which side is wrong, for compassionate

defense of life is a force of good and sadistic

mass destruction of life is a force for evil.

Paul Watson

The arc of the moral universe is long,

but it bends towards justice.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

To know even one life has breathed easier

because you have lived. This is

to have succeeded.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We are all victims of the violence that animals

suffer... their liberation is also our liberation.

George Bernard Shaw

Why should the law refuse its protection to any

sensitive being? The time will come when

humanity will extend its mantle

over everyone who breathes.

Jeremy Bentham

There is no fundamental difference between man

and animals in their ability to feel pleasure

and pain, happiness and misery.

Charles Darwin

Who We Really Are

I have always felt that the way we treat animals

is a pretty good indicator of the compassion

we are capable of for the human race.

Ali MacGraw

Jo Frederiks

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

Tsunami of Indifference

Evil thrives on apathy

and cannot exist without it.

Hannah Arendt

Any of us has the capacity for atrocity - 

just as each of us has the capacity for heroism.

David Mamet

Jo Frederiks

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

Individuals

The systematic torture of sentient beings,

whatever the pretext and in whatever form,

cannot achieve anything more than it

already has: to show us what is the lowest

point of debasement man can reach.

Joaquin Phoenix

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

Execution of the Soul

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

Whoever does wrong, wrongs himself;

whoever does injustice, does it to himself,

making himself evil.

Marcus Aurelius

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.

George 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

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.

George Bernard Shaw

A good heart will refuse the happiness

built on the misfortune of others.

Saadie

Freedom from Indoctrination

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

Friendship

The only way to have a friend

is to be a friend.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#1: Give up the ideal.

#2: Stop dividing.

#3: Let your secrets out.

#4: Motherhood v. Career.

1. Be fake-friendly.

2. Make people feel bad about themselves.

3. Be possessive.

4. Buy your friends.

5. Move too fast.

6. Do too much.

7. Perform your friendship.

8. Don't be yourself.

Be civil to all;

serviceable to many;

familiar with few;

friend to one;

enemy with noone.

Benjamin Franklin

Associate yourself with people of good quality,

for it is better to be alone than in bad company.

Booker T. Washington

1. Jealousy.

2. Passive-aggressive behavior.

3. Malicious gossip.

4. Negative Nancy.

5. Drama queen.

6. Troublemaking.

7. Attention seeking.

8. Flirting with somebody else's man.

9. Comparing & competing.

10. Exploitation.

You will never be as happy in any other way

as you will be when you know that

you are making others happy.

Napoleon Hill

If having a soul means being able to feel love

and loyalty and gratitude, then a lot of

animals are better off than a lot of humans.

James Herriot

The key is to keep company only with people who

uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.

Epictetus

Attract what you want

by being what you want.

Buddha

A Feminine Impression - How to find other feminine women

- Visualize the kind of women you want to have in your life. Focus on how you're going to feel around them.

- Be alluring, kind and approachable.

- Listen to your intuition.

When you help someone up a hill,

you find yourself closer to the top.

Brownie Wise

Happy is the man who can make others better,

not merely when he is in their company,

but even when he is in their thoughts.

Seneca

The Warrior 🛡️

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.

Adversity is the trial of principle.

Henry Fielding

You are in danger of living a life so comfortable

and soft, that you will die without ever

realizing your true potential.

David Goggins

How we treat the vulnerable

is how we define ourselves.

Russell Brand

We can forgive the Arabs for killing our

children. We cannot forgive them for

forcing us to kill their children.

Golda Meir

Don't expect justice where might is right.

Plato

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

People seem good while they are oppressed,

but they only wish to become oppressors in

their turn: life is nothing but a competition

to be the criminal rather than the victim.

Bertrand Russell

I object to violence because when it appears

to do good, the good is only temporary;

the evil it does is permanent.

Mahatma Gandhi

A gem cannot be polished without friction,

nor a man perfected without trials.

Seneca

The world hates a Jew who hits back. The world

loves us only when we are to be pitied.

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

If the Arabs put down their guns there would be

no more fighting. If the Israelis put down theirs

there would be no more Israel.

Golda Meir

You can kill a man but you can't kill an idea.

Sophocles

If you don't stand for something

you will fall for anything.

Malcolm X

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

Marcus Aurelius

Peace will come when the Arabs will love

their children more than they hate us.

Golda Meir

You're only lonely if you're not there for you.

Phil McGraw

Those who tell the stories rule society.

Plato

There are many causes I would die for.

There is not a single cause I would kill for.

Mahatma Gandhi

God and Satan alike are essentially human

figures, the one a projection of ourselves,

the other of our enemies.

Bertrand Russell

Human beings have a strong dramatic instinct

toward binary thinking, a basic urge to divide

things into two distinct groups... Good versus

bad... It is simple and intuitive, and also

dramatic because it implies conflict,

and we do it without thinking, all the time.

Hans Rosling

You always become the thing you fight the most.

Carl Jung

You can chain me, you can torture me,

you can even destroy this body,

but you will never imprison my mind.

Mahatma Gandhi

The man who has no inner life

is a slave to his surroundings.

Henri-Frédérik Amiel

Every war when it comes, or before it comes,

is represented not as a war but as an act of

self-defense against a homicidal maniac.

George Orwell

When the student is ready the teacher will

appear. When the student is truly ready

the teacher will dissappear.

Lao Tzu

Nothing happens to any man which

he is not formed by nature to bear.

Marcus Aurelius

We are only as strong as we are united,

as weak as we are divided.

J.K. Rowling

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

separated from law and justice

he is the worst.

Aristotle

When the rich wage war it's the poor who die.

Jean-Paul Sartre

God grant me the serenity to accept the things

I cannot change, the courage to change

the things I can, and the wisdom

to know the difference.

Reinhold Niebuhr

People are sent to teach you.

If you don't learn you'll keep

making the same mistake.

Learn the lesson and be free.

Mastin Kipp

We don't see things as they are,

we see them as we are.

Anaïs Nin

🍴 All Life is Connected 🌍

We're at war with nature.

If we win, we're lost.

Hubert Reeves

Eating animals has brought us to our knees

as a species. I think it's time to re-examine

our world in a way that doesn't abuse

other species.

Brian May

The concept of factory farming is one 

of our biggest failures as a species.

Khaled bin Alwaleed

Jo Frederiks

The fate of animals is more important to me

than the fear of appearing ridiculous; it is

indissolubly connected with the fate of men.

Émile Zola

Our fate is inextricably linked to the health and

resilience of the Earth and our fellow earthlings,

and when these are harmed and made to suffer,

so are we.

Gene Baur

The New Swiss Army Knife of the Future

In our hands now lies not only our own future,

but that of all other living creatures

with whom we share the Earth.

David Attenborough

The whole creation groans under the weight

of the evil we humans visit upon these

powerless creatures.

Tom Regan

We are the collateral damage of carnism;

we pay for it with our health,

our environment and our taxes.

Melanie Joy

Reality cannot be ignored except at a price;

and the longer the ignorance is persisted in,

the higher and more terrible becomes

the price that must be paid.

Aldous Huxley

Nothing will benefit human health and

increase the chances for survival of life on Earth

as much as the evolution to a vegan diet.

If the whole world adopts veganism,

it can change the destiny of humankind.

Albert Einstein

We are, quite literally, gambling with the future

of our planet - for the sake of hamburgers.

Peter Singer

Veganism is the 'single biggest way' to reduce

your environmental impact on the planet.

Joseph Poore

The Elephant in the Room

Man can no longer live for himself alone.

We must realize that all life is valuable

and that we are united to all life.

Albert Schweitzer

Every time you spend money you're casting

a vote for the kind of world you want.

Anna Lappé

Palm Oil and Pollution

Do your little bit of good where you are;

it's those little bits of good put together

that overwhelm the world.

Desmond Tutu

We are all victims of the violence that animals

suffer... their liberation is also our liberation.

George Bernard Shaw

Jo Frederiks

Ironically, people will do anything to protect

their children, except protect the planet.

Khaled Bin Alwaleed

We are made wise not by the recollection

of our past, but by the responsibility

for our future.

George Bernard Shaw

Jo Frederiks

I think that the Earth's immune system is trying

to get rid of us, as well it should.

Kurt Vonnegut

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.

Gregory Colbert

What will save us is not technology or science.

What will save us is the ethical

transformation of our society.

Carmelite Father Eduardo Agosta Scarel

How we treat animals is powerfully connected

to our relationship with the world itself.

Nathalie Portman

In the Belly of the Beast

While we ourselves are the living graves

of murdered animals, how can we expect

any ideal living conditions on this Earth?

George Bernard Shaw