💣 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

Few people are capable of expressing with

equanimity opinions which differ from

the prejudices of their social environment.

Most people are even incapable of

forming such opinions.

Albert Einstein

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

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

What the herd hates most is the one who thinks

differently; it is not so much the opinion itself,

but the audacity of wanting to think

for themselves, something that they

do not know how to do.

Arthur Schopenhauer

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

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

1. Natural hip swing.

2. Sitting position.

3. Smile and "smize".

4. Touch your hair gently.

5. Physical touch.

6. Touch your own wrists.

7. Sensual thoughts. Your energy.

8. Place your hand on your chest.

9. The tone of your voice.

10. Do everything with balance.

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 a person finds sexually attractive

and I will tell you their entire philosophy of life.

Show me the person they sleep with and I will

tell you their valuation of themselves.

Ayn Rand

Eroticism is first and foremost

a thirst for otherness.

Octavio Paz

The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.

Voltaire

If animals could speak, the dog would

be a blundering outspoken fellow;

but the cat would have the rare grace

of never saying a word too much.

Mark Twain

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

It is sexual energy which governs the structure

of human feeling and thinking.

Wilhelm Reich

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

🌱 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

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

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

'Animal Liberation' became the indispensable

foundational text for the movement

whose name it bore.

J.M. Coetzee

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

We have in fact, two kinds of morality,

side by side: one which we preach,

but do not practice, and other which we

practice, but seldom preach.

Bertrand Russell

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

Respect life and life will respect you.

Love life and love will shower blessings on you.

Rajneesh

Three times a day I remind myself that

I value life and do not want to

cause pain to or kill others.

Nathalie Portman

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

The Invisible Animals in Our Lives

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

From beasts we scorn as soulless,

in forest, field and den,

the cry goes up to witness,

the soullessness of men.

M. Frida Hartley

Could you look an animal in the eyes and say;

'my appetite is more important

than your suffering?'

Moby

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

You who feel no pain at the suffering of others,

it is not fitting for you to to be called a human.

Saadi

Why are vegans made fun of while

the inhumane factory farming process

regards animals and the natural world merely

as commodities to be exploited for profit?

Ellen Page

Think occasionally of the suffering

of which you spare yourself the sight.

Albert Schweitzer

Human beings are not machines,

and however powerful the pressure to conform,

they sometimes are so moved by what

they see as injustice that they dare

to declare their independence.

In that historical possibility lies hope.

Howard Zinn

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

Man is not what he thinks he is,

he is what he hides.

André Malraux

If people understood that for two minutes

of pleasure, there is a lifetime of suffering.

Khaled bin Alwaleed

When we look at the world through another

animal's eyes, we have to realise that,

inside we're all the same - and so we all

deserve to live free from suffering.

Joaquin Phoenix

Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.

Albert Schweitzer

Jo Frederiks

My body will not be a tomb for other creatures.

Leonardo da Vinci

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

💗Chicken 🐥 Love 🐔🐓

Respect life and life will respect you.

Love life and love will shower blessings on you.

Rajneesh

Animals are my friends...

and I don't eat my friends.

George Bernard Shaw

Jo Frederiks

I did not become a vegan for my health,

I did it for the health of the chickens.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

The story of the chicken is the saddest story

ever told, and we are its authors.

T.B.A

The beauty you see in me

is a reflection of you.

Rumi

Our prime purpose in this life is to help

others. And if you can't help them,

at least don't hurt them.

Dalai Lama

Love is the beauty of the soul.

Saint Augustine

The soul is the same in all living creatures,

although the body of each is different.

Hippocrates

I believe that the reason of life

is for each of us simply to grow in love.

Leo Tolstoy

Now I can look at you in peace;

I don't eat you anymore.

Franz Kafka

Just how destructive does a culinary preference

have to be before we decide to eat something else?

If contributing to the suffering of billions of

animals that live miserable lives and, quite often,

die in horrific ways isn't motivating,

what would be?

Jonathan Safran Foer

Being healthy doesn't need to be expensive,

and with plant-based alternatives you can have

the same taste and texture as real chicken,

without the harmful effects to our body,

the environment and chickens.

Cameron Newton

Why are you so afraid of change? Nothing

in this world can be without change. Only

one rule is constant: do not do anything

inhumane to others.

Marcus Aurelius

Every time you spend money, you're casting

a vote for the kind of world you want.

Anna Lappé

The greatness of a nation and its moral progress

can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

Mahatma Gandhi

The greater your capacity for love,

the more beauty you find in the world.

Jane Smiley

In every living being there is the desire for love.

D.H. Lawrence

What we call love is in its essence

reverence for life.

Albert Schweitzer

I greet you from the other side of sorrow

and despair, with a love so vast and

shattered it will reach you everywhere.

Leonard Cohen

📷 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

You, who feel no pain at the suffering

of others, it is not fitting for you

to be called a human.

Saadi

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.