Mean Girls

Most people abuse power.

They use power to dominate others.

They use power to destroy others.

Ultimately, when you do this, you lose it.

Frederick Lenz

The limits of tyrants are prescribed by

the endurance of those whom they oppress.

Frederick Douglass

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

The greatest evil perpetrated is the evil

committed by nobodies, that is, by

human beings who refuse to be persons.

Hannah Arendt

Power is never the property of an individual;

it belongs to a group and remains in existence

only so long as the group keeps together.

Hannah Arendt

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

You Are What You Eat

When we eat factory-farmed animals we live,

literally, on tortured flesh.

Increasingly, that tortured flesh

is becoming our own.

Jonathan Safran Foer

I know, in my soul, that to eat a creature who

is raised to be eaten, and who never has

a chance to be a real being, is unhealthy.

It's like... you're just eating misery.

Alice Walker

I do feel that spiritual progress does demand...

that we should cease to kill our fellow

creatures for the satisfaction

of our bodily wants.

Mahatma Gandhi

Jo Frederiks

I refuse to eat animals because

I cannot nourish myself by the sufferings

and by the death of other creatures.

I refuse to do so, because I suffered

so painfully myself that I can feel

the pains of others by recalling

my own sufferings.

Edgar Kupfer-Koberwitz

The earth affords a lavish supply of richess

of innocent foods, and offers you banquets

that involve no bloodshed or slaughter.

Pythagoras

Worthless people live to eat and drink;

people of worth eat and drink to live.

Socrates

Veganism is not a diet.

It is a rejection of violence.

Marlana Mazmanian McCliman

Veganism has given me a higher level of

awareness and spirituality, primary because

the energy associated with eating has shifted...

by putting things into your body that violate

its spirit, it will be difficult not to perpetuate

that violence onto someone else.

Dexter Scott King

You become what you think.

You are what you eat.

Barbara Cartland

The basis of all animal rights should be

the Golden Rule: we should treat them as we

would wish them to treat us, were any

other species in our dominant position.

Christine Stevens

Jo Frederiks

To feed on death is to become food for death.

To live by other's pain is to become a prey

for pain. So has decreed the omni-will.

Know that and choose your course.

Mikhail Naimy

They muddy the water, to make it seem deep.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The thinking person must oppose all

cruel customs, no matter how deeply rooted

in tradition and surrounded by a halo.

When we have a choice, we must avoid

bringing torment and injury

into the life of another.

Albert Schweitzer

There is no religion without love, and people may

talk as much as they like about their religion,

but if it does not teach them to be kind

to man and animals, it is all a sham.

Anna Sewell

The eating of animals extinguishes

the seed of great compassion.

Buddha

Pick Me Vegans & Ex Vegans

People's opinions are mainly designed to make

them feel comfortable; truth, for most people,

is a secondary consideration.

Bertrand Russell

We are haunted by the horror of what we do

to animals, but we are equally haunted by

the knowledge of how unhaunted others are.

J.M. Coetzee

When people meet vegans, they become aware

in that moment that they eat animals.

They become uncomfortable and place

the feeling on the vegan. Their own sense

of mercy and compassion arises and

makes them uneasy. Mercy asks of you

to abstain from this cruelty.

Gary Smith

The hottest places in hell are reserved for

those who, in times of great moral crisis,

maintain their neutrality.

Dante Alighieri

When you see a good man, try to emulate

his example, and when you see a bad man,

search yourself for his faults.

Confucius

Cowards can never be moral.

Mahatma Gandhi

All rivers and some people are crooked because

they follow the path of least resistence.

Napoleon Hill

If you don't stick to your values when

they're being tested, they're not values:

they're hobbies.

Jon Stewart

To be yourself in a world that is constantly

trying to make you something else is

the greatest accomplishment.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We only become what we are by the radical

and deep-seated refusal of that which

others have made of us.

Jean Paul Sartre

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

🦊 Cruelty-Free Shopping 🐇

If one person is unkind to an animal

it is considered to be cruelty,

but if a lot of people are unkind to animals

(especially in the name of profit)

the cruelty is condoned and will be defended

by otherwise intelligent people.

Ruth Harrison

Behind every fur, there is a story.

It is a bloody, barbaric story.

Mary Tyler Moore

There is no kind way to rip the skin of animal's

backs. Anyone who wears any fur shares

the blame for the torture and gruesome deaths

of millions of animals each year.

Natalie Imbruglia

Jo Frederiks

We know we cannot be kind to animals

until we stop exploiting them -

exploiting animals in the name of science,

exploiting animals in the name of sport,

exploiting animals in the name of fashion,

and yes, exploiting animals in the name of food.

César Chávez

Wearing cosmetics that were tested on

animals makes you ugly on the inside.

Ricky Gervais

Every time you spend money you're casting

a vote for the kind of world you want.

Anna Lappé

To be vegan is to disagree with cruelty.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Being vegan for me is about trying to live a life

where I'm not contributing to

the cruelty in the world.

Jessica Chastain

It's medieval to me that the fashion industry

still kills millions of animals a year.

Stella McCartney

A good heart will refuse the happiness

built on the misfortune of others.

Saadie

Animals run no risk of going to hell.

They are already there.

Victor Hugo

Kill To Dress

People speak sometimes about the "bestial"

cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust

and offensive to beasts, no animal could

ever be so cruel as man, so artfully, so

artistically cruel.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Man has made the Earth a hell for animals.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Make ethical choices in what you buy, do and

watch. In a consumer-driven society our

individual choices, used collectively for

the good of animals, can change

the world faster than laws.

Marc Bekoff

Veganism is not a diet.

It is a rejection of violence.

Marlana Mazmanian McCliman

The world is not a factory and animals

are not products for our use.

Arthur Schopenhauer

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

Consider the Turkey 🦃

Don't talk of love and peace when

you have a dead animal on your plate.

Socrates

People who say they love animals sit down

to enjoy the flesh of creatures who have been

utterly deprived of everything that could make

their lives worth living and who endured

the awful suffering and the terror

of the abattoirs.

Jane Goodall

Mend the part of the world

that is within your reach.

Clarissa Pinkola Estés

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

Ricky Gervais

Flesh eating is unprovoked murder.

Benjamin Franklin

Thanksgiving dinner's sad and thankless

Christmas dinner's dark and blue

When you stop and try to see it

From the turkey's point of view

Sunday dinner isn't sunny

Easter feasts are just bad luck

When you see it from the view point

of a chicken or a duck

Oh how I once loved tuna salad

Pork and lobsters, lamb chops too

Till I stopped and looked at dinner

From the dinner's point of view

Shel Silverstein

Every culture has something to be ashamed of,

but every culture also has the right to change,

to challenge negative traditions,

and to create new ones.

Azar Nafisi

Where there is love there is life.

Mahatma Gandhi

Happy Thanksgiving

Understand that... you own nothing.

Everything that surround you is temporary,

only the love in your heart will last.

Buddha

He who is not contended with what he has,

would not be contended with what

he would like to have.

Socrates

Happiness is the spiritual experience of living

every minute with love, grace and gratitude.

Denis Waitley

Comparison is the thief of joy.

Theodore Roosevelt

If you celebrate Thanksgiving, stop paying

someone to hurt animals for your Thanksgiving

centerpiece. Choose a vegan roast so that

everyone can have something

to be thankful for this season.

Joaquin Phoenix

A good heart will refuse the happiness

built on misfortune of others.

Saadie

Create all the happiness you are able to create;

remove all the misery you are able to remove.

Every day will allow you, will invite you to

add something to the pleasure of others,

or to diminish something of their pains.

Jeremy Bentham

Where there is love there is life.

Mahatma Gandhi

Consciousness & A.I. 🤖

Emotion is the chief source of consciousness.

There is no change from darkness to light or

from inertia to movement without emotion.

Carl Jung

Man is an animal with primary instincts

of survival. Consequently his ingenuity

has developed first and his soul afterwards.

The progress of science is far ahead

of man's ethical behavior.

Charlie Chaplin

Gods always behave like the people

who created them.

Zora Neale Hurston

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

Computers will overtake humans with AI

within the next 100 years. When that happens,

we need to make sure the computers

have goals aligned with ours.

Stephen Hawking

Humanity's true moral test, its fundamental

test... consists of its attitude towards those

who are at its mercy: animals.

Milan Kundera

True empathy is not self-focused but

other-oriented. Instead of making humanity

the measure of all things, we need to evaluate

other species by what they are.

Frans de Waal

Compassion is the signature

of higher consciousness.

Amit Ray

If a group of beings were to land on Earth -

beings who considered themselves as superior

to you as you feel yourself to be to other animals

- would you concede them the rights over you

that you assume over other animals?

George Bernard Shaw

When dealing with people, remember you are

not dealing with creatures of logic,

but creatures of emotion.

Dale Carnegie

The Creature includes animals within its moral

codes, but is thwarted and deeply frustrated

when seeking to be included within the moral

codes of humanity. It learns that regardless

of its own inclusive moral standards, the human

circle is drawn in such a way that both it

and the other animals are excluded from it.

Carol J. Adams

The basis of all animal rights should be

the Golden Rule: we should treat them

as we would wish them to treat us, were

any other species in our dominant position.

Christine Stevens

The question is not, "Can they reason?"

nor "Can they talk?" but, "Can they suffer?"

Jeremy Bentham

The destiny of civilized humanity depends more

than ever on the moral forces it is capable

of generating.

Albert Einstein

Man worships an invisible God and destroys

a visible Nature. Unaware that this Nature

he's destroying is this God he's worshiping.

Hubert Reeves

War on Women

Before you think good or evil, who are you?

Huineng

Ultimately evil is done not so much by evil people,

but by good people who do not know themselves

and who do not probe deeply.

Reinhold Niebuhr

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

I sometimes try to imagine what would have

happened if we'd known the bonobo first

and the chimpanzee only later - or not at all.

The discussion about human evolution might not

revolve as much around violence, warfare and

male dominance, but rather around sexuality,

empathy, caring and cooperation.

Frans de Waal

The arc of the moral universe is long,

but it bends towards justice.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

It is impossible to think of the welfare of

the world unless the condition of women

is improved. It is not possible for a bird

to fly on only one wing.

Swami Vivekananda

The number of people with any criteria for

distinguishing between good and evil

is very small.

T.S. Eliot

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

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

The worst thing that we can do as women

is not stand up for each other, and this is

something we can practice every day,

no matter where we are and what we do

- women sticking up for other women,

choosing to protect and celebrate each other

instead of competing or critizing each other.

Amal Clooney

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.

When I despair, I remember that all through

history the way of truth and love has always

won. There have been tyrants and murderers

and for a time they seem invincible, but in

the end they always fall... think of it, always.

Mahatma Gandhi

Awaken to Your Destiny

You are not a drop in the ocean;

You are the entire ocean in a drop.

Rumi

The universe experiences itself through you

for a brief moment called life.

Eckhart Tolle

Pursuing self-esteem can be motivating,

but other sources of motivation, such as

goals that are good for the self and others,

can provide the same motivation

without the costs.

Jennifer Crocker & Lora Park

Jo Frederiks

I sometimes try to imagine what would have

happened if we'd known the bonobo first

and the chimpanzee only later - or not at all.

The discussion about human evolution might not

revolve as much around violence, warfare and

male dominance, but rather around sexuality,

empathy, caring and cooperation.

Frans de Waal

I believe that we are all creative beings and

that you were placed here on this earth

to create something of value to the world.

Something that will help others break free,

something that lights you up with passion and

something that is larger than just you.

Mastin Kipp

Service to others is the rent you pay

for your room here on earth.

Muhammad Ali

The meaning of life is to find your gift.

The purpose of life is to give it away.

Pablo Picasso

Success, like happiness, cannot be pursued;

it must ensue, and it only does so as the side

effect of one's personal dedication to a cause

greater than oneself.

Viktor Frankl

If you want to live a happy life,

tie it to a goal, not to people or objects.

Albert Einstein

Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and

go to the grave with the song still in them.

Henry David Thoreau

The best way to find yourself is to

lose yourself in the service of others.

Mahatma Gandhi

Life's most important and urgent question is:

what are you doing for others?

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Culture eats strategy for breakfast.

Peter Drucker

The thing about real life is that important events

don't announce themselves... Usually something

that is going to change your whole life is

a memory before you can stop and

be impressed about it.

Edith Schaeffer

The really important kind of freedom involves

attention, and awareness, and discipline, and

effort, and being able truly to care about other

people and to sacrifice for them, over and over,

in myriad petty little unsexy ways, every day.

David Foster Wallace

Two roads diverged in a wood and I -

I took the one less traveled by,

and that has made all the difference.

Robert Frost

Everything that's happened in your life

up until now has been preparing you

to live your purpose. These have been lessons

and now it's your time to step into your purpose

and make your mark. You are stronger than

your circumstances and what other people say.

There is something within you that is only

yours to give. Give us all you've got.

Mastin Kipp