🌱 The Vegan Community 🌻

People working together in a strong community

with a shared goal and a common purpose

can make the impossible possible.

Tom Vilsack

If you think we can't change the world,

it just means you're not one of those who will.

Jacque Fresco

The time will come when men such as I

will look upon the murder of animals

as they now look upon the murder of men.

Leonardo da Vinci

Think about what your skills are, and what you

enjoy doing, or what you're good at and

employ those specific skills to make

the world a better place.

Jo-Anne McArthur

Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked,

in which you can walk with love and reverence.

Henry David Thoreau

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

The key is to keep company only with people who

uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.

Epictetus

All truth passes through three stages.

First, it is ridiculed.

Second, it is violently opposed.

Third, it is accepted as self-evident.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful,

committed citizens can change the world.

Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.

Margaret Mead

A man can live and be healthy without killing

animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat,

he participates in taking life merely

for the sake of his appetite.

And to act so is immoral.

Leo Tolstoy

Good people are those who love animals.

Keanu Reeves

The Disclosure Podcast - Preacher Lawson

You meet saints everywhere.

They are people behaving decently

in an indecent society.

Kurt Vonnegut

We can judge the heart of a man

by his treatment of animals.

Immanuel Kant

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 can judge a man's true character by

the way he treats his fellow animals.

Paul McCartney

I'm so proud to be a vegan.

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

Being vegan helped me realize I can say and do

what I believe is right. That's powerful.

Alicia Silverstone

Truth has to be repeated constantly,

because Error also is being preached all the time,

and not just by a few, but by the multitude. In

the Press, Encyclopaedias, in Schools and

Universities, everywhere Error holds sway,

feeling happy and comfortable in

the knowledge of having Majority on its side.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Jo Frederiks

We are all victims of the violence that animals

suffer... their liberation is also our liberation.

George Bernard Shaw

My awareness of belonging to the invisible

community of those who strive for truth,

beauty and justice has prevented me

from feelings of isolation.

Albert Einstein

My life is my message.

Mahatma Gandhi

We are only as strong as we are united,

as weak as we are divided.

J.K. Rowling

The day the power of love overrules the love

of power, the world will know peace.

Mahatma Gandhi

Jo Frederiks

Sensuality

To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice

in the force of life itself and to be present in

all that one does, from the effort of loving

to the breaking of bread.

James Baldwin

Body language is more powerful than words.

Ricky Gervais

The femme fatale expresses woman's ancient

and eternal control of the sexual realm.

The specter of the femme fatale stalks

all of men's relationships with women.

Camille Paglia

Tell me what you love,

and I will tell you who you are.

Arsene Houssaye

Eroticism is first and foremost

a thirst for otherness.

Octavio Paz

The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.

Voltaire

Too much circulation makes the price go down.

Robert Greene

1. Confidence.

2. Elegance.

3. Femininity.

Familiarity breeds contempt.

Geoffrey Chaucher

Act the way you'd like to be and soon

you'll be the way you act.

Leonard Cohen

Every saint has a past,

and every sinner has a future.

Oscar Wilde

To play a wrong note is insignificant.

To play without passion is inexcusable.

Ludwig van Beethoven

Everything in the world is about sex

except sex. Sex is about power.

Oscar Wilde

People should be more like animals... they

should be more intuitive; they should not

be too conscious of what they do

while they do it.

Albert Einstein

You can be the ripest, juiciest peach in the world,

and there's still going to be somebody

who hates peaches.

Dita Von Teese

🐮Not Your Mother - Not Your Milk

We're taught as children that milk

comes from cows when in reality,

milk comes from mothers.

Preacher Lawson

Jo Frederiks

It is my firm conviction that man need take

no milk at all, beyond the mother's

milk that he takes as a baby.

Mahatma Gandhi

The animals you eat are not those who devour

others; you do not eat the carnivorous beasts,

you take them as your pattern. You only

hunger for the sweet and gentle creatures

which harm no one, which follow you,

serve you, and are devoured by you

as the reward of their service.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Man is as much a parasite on the cow

as the tapeworm is on man.

Milan Kundera

We know things about her that no one should

ever know, or want to know, about a fellow

being... the taste, texture and flavor of every

aspect of her despair, degradation and defeat.

We know every detail of what we have forced

her to be - an object to consume and excrete.

What we don't know, what we don't want to

know, is what we must know if we are

to restore our own humanity: who she is.

Joanna Lucas

Man has made the Earth a hell for animals.

Arthur Schopenhauer

The dairy industry tried to convince you

for 20 years that milk was good for you.

It's a lie, but they tried anyway.

Steve Jobs

Whiteness rests upon a foundational premise:

the definition of white as the norm or standard

for human, and people of color

as the deviation from that norm.

Robin DiAngelo

Humans are the only animals that drink

the milk of the mother of another species.

All other animals stop drinking milk

altogether after weaning.

Michael Klaper

Thou never didst them wrong, nor no man

wrong; And as the butcher takes away the calf

And binds the wretch, and beats him when he

strays, Bearing him to the bloody slaughter-

house, Even so remorseless have they borne him

hence; And as the dam runs lowing up and

down, Looking the way her harmless young

went, And can do nought but wail

her darling's loss.

William Shakespeare

A mother's love does not derive from

the intellect but from the emotions,

in animals just as in humans.

Maimonides

We're exploiting female bodies and abusing

the magic of female animals to create milk.

Nathalie Portman

Being vegetarian here also means that we do not

consume dairy and egg products, because they

are products of the meat industry. If we stop

consuming, they will stop producing. Only

collective awakening can create enough

determination for action.

Thich Nhat Hanh

Cows are amongst the gentlest of breathing

creatures; none show more passionate

tenderness to their young when deprived

of them; and, in short, I am not ashamed

to profess a deep love for these quiet creatures.

Thomas de Quincey

The Art of Conversation

Nature has given us two ears, two eyes

and but one tongue to the end that we should

hear and see more than we speak.

Socrates

Every word has consequences.

Every silence, too.

Jean-Paul Sartre

- Speak softly.

- Don't raise your voice. But don't speak too quietly.

- Speak at a medium pace.

- Listen more than you speak. Don't share too much private information.

- Make eye contact. Smile. Use your eyes and body language.

- Don't interrupt others.

- Give people your undivided attention.

- Don't curse.

- Don't use words you don't know how to pronounce.

- Read.

- Study women who you want to be like. Do research the same way an actor does to build a character.

Information is giving out;

communication is getting through.

Sydney J. Harris

Change happens by listening and then

starting a dialogue with the people who are

doing something you don't believe is right.

Jane Goodall

Love your enemies, for they tell you you faults.

Benjamin Franklin

One of the most sincere forms of respect is

actually listening to what another has to say.

Bryant H. McGill

People are taught how to speak,

but their major concern

should be how to keep silent.

Leo Tolstoy

1. Your plans. Move in silence.

2. Your finances.

3. Your love life.

4. Someone else's confidential information (malicious gossip).

5. Your drama.

6. Your controversial views (religion, politics, social taboos).

7. Your good deeds.

Three can keep a secret,

if two of them are dead.

Benjamin Franklin

It is better to be king of your silence

than a slave of your words.

William Shakespeare

A fool is known by his speech;

and a wise man by silence.

Pythagoras

Wise men speak because they have something

to say; fools because they have to say something.

Plato

Strong minds discuss ideas,

average minds discuss events,

weak minds discuss people.

Socrates

If you propose to speak always ask yourself,

is it true, is it necessary, is it kind.

Buddha

I don't want easy. Easy doesn't make you grow.

Easy doesn't make you think.

Madonna

The more you discipline yourself,

the less you will be disciplined by others.

Napoleon Hill

The first step in a fascist movement is

the combination... of a number of men who

possess more than the average share of leisure,

brutality and stupidity. The next step is

to fascinate fools and muzzle the intelligent,

by emotional excitement on the one hand

and terrorism on the other.

Bertrand Russell

Think before you speak, read before you think.

Fran Lebowitz

He who speaks, sows. He who listens, collect.

Pythagoras

Speak only if it improves upon the silence.

Mahatma Gandhi

The trouble with the world is that the stupid are

cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.

Bertrand Russell

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

Opinion is really the lowest form of human

knowledge. It requires no accountability, no

understanding. The highest form of knowledge

is empathy, for it requires us to suspend

our egos and live in another's world.

Bill Bullard

1. Jokes about something that is true and sensitive.

2. Jokes with your opinions that are not positive.

3. Sarcasm that goes too far (if the person does not understand that you're being sarcastic). 

4. Jokes about stereotypes (racial/stereotypes/sexist/groups of people).

5. Vulgar jokes (sexist/sex/toilet humor/swearing).

6. Self-deprecating humor.

7. A badly told joke (storytelling - how the build-up process works. Work with pauses).

Nothing shows a man's character

more than what he laughs at.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

You can tell more about a person by what

he says about others than you can by

what others say about him.

Audrey Hepburn

If you think your belief is based upon reason,

you will support it by argument rather than

by persecution, and will abandon it if

the argument goes against you.

But if your belief is based upon faith,

you will realize that argument is useless,

and will therefore resort to force.

Bertrand Russell

Words are the clothes thoughts wear.

Samuel Becket

Listen with the intent to understand,

not the intent to reply.

Stephen Covey

There is an almost universal tendency, to suspect

the good faith of a man who holds opinions

that differ from our own opinions. It obviously

endangers the freedom and objectivity of our

discussion if we attack a person instead of

attacking an opinion, or more precisely, a theory.

Karl Popper

My point is not that religion itself is

the motivation for wars, murders and terrorist

attacks, but that religion is the principal label,

and the most dangerous one, by which a 'they'

as opposed to a 'we' can be identified at all.

Richard Dawkins

Intelligence is measured by a person's

ability to see validity within both sides

of contradicting arguments.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

No people have risen who thought only of rights.

Only those did so who thought of duties.

Mahatma Gandhi

Darkness cannot drive out darkness;

only light can do that.

Hate cannot drive out hate,

only love can do that.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

People will forget what you said,

people will forget what you did, but

people will never forget how you made dem feel.

Maya Angelou

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

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.

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

An unjust law is itself a species of violence.

Arrest for its breach is more so.

Mahatma Gandhi

Be the change you want to see in the world.

Mahatma Gandhi

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

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

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