Tuesday, July 8, 2025

💣 Unpopular Opinions & Controversial Figures 🔥

Freethinkers are those who are willing to
use their minds without prejudice and
without fearing to understand things that
 clash with their own customs, privileges,
or beliefs. This state of mind is not common,
but it is essential for right thinking.

Leo Tolstoy


Everything that irritates us about others
can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

Carl Jung


If you do not say a thing in an irritating way,
you may as well not say it at all
because people will not trouble themselves
about anything that does not trouble them.

George Bernard Shaw


Those who are able to see beyond
the shadows and lies of their culture
will never be understood, let alone
believed, by the masses.

Plato


Free thinkers will always seem crazy to
those who can't see beyond conventions.
Never apologize for evolving
beyond people's comfort zone.

Albert Einstein


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


The minority is generelly formed by those who
really have an opinion, while the strenght
 of the majority is illusory, formed by 
the gangs who have no opinion.

Soren Kierkegaard


It's easy to stand in the crowd
but it takes courage to stand alone.

Mahatma Gandhi


Cowards can never be moral.
Mahatma Gandhi


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.


Do not go where the path may lead. Go instead
where there is no path and leave a trail.

Ralph Waldo Emerson


People's opinions are mainly designed to make
them feel comfortable; truth, for most people,
is a secondary consideration.

Bertrand Russell


Injustice results as much from treating unequals
equally as from treating equals unequally.

Aristotle


If everyone is thinking alike,
then no one is thinking.

Benjamin Franklin


If anyone can show me, and prove to me,
that I am wrong in thought or deed,
I will gladly change. I seek the truth,
which never yet hurt anybody. It is only
persistence in self-delusion and ignorance
which does harm.

Marcus Aurelius


Man proceeds in the fog. But when he looks
back to judge people of the past, he sees no fog
on their path. From his present, which was their
faraway future, their path looks perfectly clear
to him, good visibility all the way. Looking back,
he sees the path, he sees the people proceeding,
he sees their mistakes, but not the fog.

Milan Kundera


Intelligence is measured by a person's
ability to see validity within both sides
of contradicting arguments.

F. Scott Fitzgerald


I don't want to talk, to communicate, with
someone who agrees with me; I want to
communicate with you because
you see it differently.

Stephen Covey



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


True morality consists not in following
the beaten track, but in finding the true path
for ourselves, and fearlessly following it.

Mahatma Gandhi


Progress is impossible without change,
and those who cannot change their minds
cannot change anything.

George Bernard Shaw


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

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


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

Jo Frederiks

Every bit of meat, chicken or fish you eat,
every bit of leather or fur you wear,
has come from an animal that has
been tortured, pulled away from their
family and brutally killed.

Lewis Hamilton


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


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

Monday, July 7, 2025

🍖 Make the Connection 🐑

Compassion is ethical intelligence:
it is the capacity to make connections
and the consequent urge to act
to relieve the suffering of others.

Will Tuttle


I stopped eating meat some 50 years ago
when I looked at the pork chop on my plate
and thought: this represents fear, pain, death.

Jane Goodall


Don't talk of love and peace when you
have a dead animal on your plate.

Socrates


I am determined not to kill, not to let others kill,
and not to support any act of killing in the world.
We should consume in such a way that helps
to reduce the suffering of living beings.
And that way we can preserve
compassion in our hearts.

Thich Nhat Hanh



Non-violence, which is the quality of the heart,
cannot come by an appeal to the brain.

Mahatma Gandhi


Until he extends his circle of compassion
to include all living creatures,
man will not himself find peace.

Albert Schweitzer


A person with the capacity but not the inclination
to cease suffering is morally incomplete.

Mirko Bagaric


Compassion, in which all ethics must take root,
can only attain its full breadth and depth
if it embraces all living creatures and
does not limit itself to mankind.

Albert Schweitzer


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


Compassion is an unstable emotion.
It needs to be translated into action,
or it withers.

Susan Sontag


What do they know - all these scholars, all these
philosophers, all the leaders of the world -
about such as you? They have convinced
themselves that man, the worst transgressor
of all the species, is the crown of creation.
All other creatures were created merely to
provide him with food, pelts,
to be tormented, exterminated.

Isaac Bashevis Singer


Animals and humans suffer and die alike.
Violence causes the same pain, the same
spilling of blood, the same stench of death,
the same arrogant, cruel, and brutal taking
of life. We don't have to be part of it.

Dick Gregory


Violence begins with the fork.
Mahatma Gandhi


The line separating good and evil passes
not through states, nor between political
parties either - but right through
every human heart.

Alexandr Solzhenitsyn


I felt that if I were to continue to live
in this world I had to do what I could
to reduce the suffering around me,
or at the very least, not to add to it....
I gave up eating meat.
I have not eaten it since.

Nick Cave

🍴 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


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


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



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 are 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

Thursday, July 3, 2025

Vegans in Media

Many people, especially ignorant people,
want to punish you for speaking the truth,
for being correct, for being you.
Never apologize for being correct,
or for being years ahead of your time.
If you're right and you know it,
speak your mind.
Even if you are a minority of one,
the truth is still the truth.

Mahatma Gandhi


Never, never be afraid to do what's right,
especially if the well-being of 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.


The further a society drifts from the truth,
the more it will hate those who speak it.

George Orwell


The truth is that people are brainwashed into
thinking that it's normal to consume animals.
They are so uncomfortable with confronting
what happens to those animals because
they are part and parcel of that cruelty.

Juliet Gellatley


Our grandchildren will ask us one day:
Where were you during the Holocaust
of the animals? What did you do against
those horrifying crimes? We won't be
able to offer the same excuse for
the second time, that we didn't know.

Helmut Kaplan


Animal rights is a part of my everyday life.
When you live by example, you create a
certain level of awareness. People I have
never discussed veganism with are adopting
new habits because they see it.

Joaquin Phoenix


You meet saints everywhere.
They are people behaving decently
in an indecent society.

Kurt Vonnegut


I cannot teach anybody anything.
I can only make them think.

Socrates


The thing that's annoying about there suddenly
being a lot of vegans is the nagging suspicion
that they might be right.

David Mitchell



You should not honor men more than truth.
Plato



We are not living in a private world of our own.
Everything we say and do and think
has its effect on everything around us.

John Galsworthy



You either approve of violence or you don't,
and nothing on Earth is more violent
or extreme than the meat industry.

Morrissey




First, they ignore you, then they laugh at you,
then they fight you, then you win.

Mahatma Gandhi








The treatment of animals by the food industry
is so excessively heartless, and such an affront
to natural justice, that we who by our silence
tacitly consent to these outrages deserve to
be shocked out of our sleep. In the long run,
Mr. Yourofsky may well be doing us
a moral service by confronting us, by
the spectacle of the crimes we participate in.

John Maxwell Coetzee


If it's not good enough for your eyes,
why is it good enough for your stomach?

Gary Yourofsky


The truth will set you free.
But first, it will piss you off.

Gloria Steinem

Attraction over Promotion 🏵️

Be the change you want to see in the world.
Mahatma Gandhi


We change the world not by what we say or do
but as a consequence of what we have become.

David R. Hawkins


By choosing ourselves, we are creating
an image of what human beings should be.

Jean Paul Sartre


The world is changed by your example,
not by your opinion.

Paulo Coelho



People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs
not on the basis of proof but on the basis of
what they find attractive.

Blaise Pascal


It is the best decision I've ever made
and I've enjoyed it so much more
than I could have ever expected.
It feels good to do the right thing.

Lucy Watson


It's the best decision I have ever made.
For my health and for the world and
for the sake of decency and compassion.

Paul Wesley


Let your life be your argument.
Albert Schweitzer


Every person I have met who has gone vegan
says it is the best decision they have ever made.

Lewis Hamilton


Being vegan is the right thing for yourself
and for the planet and animals.

Lenny Kravitz


Becoming vegan was the biggest change ever 
made in my life, and one of the greatest
accomplishments as well.

Woody Harrelson


I am not going to teach it unless I live it.
John C. Maxwell


Respect life and life will respect you.
Love life and love will shower blessings on you.

Rajneesh


My goal is to bring people together through
good food without harming animals.

Omari McQueen


Food is our common ground,
a universal experience.

James Beard


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


My life is my message.
Mahatma Gandhi


I am an artist at living -
my work of art is my life.

D.T. Suzuki


Being vegan helped me realize I can say and do
what I believe is right. That's powerful.

Alicia Silverstone


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