Sunday, November 30, 2025

Blonde ๐Ÿ‘ฑ‍♀️

I am not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes
because I know I'm not dumb... and I also
know that I'm not blonde.

Dolly Parton



1. Look on the blonde side.
2. Wear a smile.
3. Be smart (instead of seeming so).
4. Treasure your word (and your sisters).
5. Live passionately.
6. Don't judge (lest you be judged).
7. Have faith in yourself.



A man is not finished when he is defeated.
He is finished when he quits.

Epictetus





Style is a way to say who you are
without having to speak.

Rachel Zoe



Marilyn is a kind of ultimate. She is uniquely
feminine. Everything she does is different,
strange and exciting; from the way she talks
to the way she uses that magnificient torso.
She makes a man proud to be a man.

Clark Gable


I've never fooled anyone. I've let people fool
themselves. They didn't bother to find out who
or what I was. Instead they would invent
a character for me. I wouldn't argue
with them. They were obviously
loving somebody I wasn't.

Marilyn Monroe


I knew I belonged to the public and the world,
not because I was talented or even beautiful,
but because I had never belonged to
anything or anyone else.

Marilyn Monroe


I used to think as I looked out on the Hollywood
night - there must be thousands of girls sitting
alone like me, dreaming of becoming a movie
star. But I'm not going to worry about them.
I'm dreaming the hardest.

Marilyn Monroe


I stopped eating animals a long time ago
because they deserve to be protected
from needless cruelty and violence.

Pamela Anderson


What people need to understand is that
if they are eating animals, they are
promoting cruelty to animals.

Pamela Anderson




As long as animals are considered an inferior
species, all kinds of evil and suffering will be
inflicted on them. They will be killed for our
needs, our leisure and pleasure.

Brigitte Bardot


Saturday, November 29, 2025

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



Friday, November 28, 2025

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
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


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


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

๐ŸฆŠ Cruelty-Free Shopping ๐Ÿ‡

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.

Cรฉsar Chรกvez


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 Lappรฉ


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

Thursday, November 27, 2025

Consider the Turkey ๐Ÿฆƒ

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 Estรฉs



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

Wednesday, November 26, 2025

Consciousness & A.I. ๐Ÿค–

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

Tuesday, November 25, 2025

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