🐷Friends 💞 Not Food 🐖

Animals are my friends...

and I don't eat my friends.

George Bernard Shaw

When I see bacon, I see a pig, I see a little friend,

and that's why I can't eat it.

Paul McCartney

A dog looks up to man,

and a cat looks down on man,

but a pig will look man right in the eye

and see his equal.

Winston Churchill

The idea that some lives matter less is

the root of all that is wrong in the world.

Paul Farmer

Now I can look at you in peace;

I don't eat you anymore.

Franz Kafka

The beauty you see in me

is a reflection of you.

Rumi

If you've ever loved a cat or a dog,

or even a human, I hope you'll extend

your compassion to include all animals.

Mike White

We send one species to the butcher and give

our love and kindness to another

apparently for no reason other

than because it's the way things are.

Melanie Joy

The soul is the same in all living creatures,

although the body of each is different.

Hippocrates

Jo Frederiks

Ethics is nothing else than

reverence for life.

Albert Schweitzer

What we call love is in its essence

reverence for life.

Albert Schweitzer

In every living being there is the desire for love.

D.H. Lawrence

The greater your capacity for love,

the more beauty you find in the world.

Jane Smiley

As we let our own light shine, we unconsciously

give other people permission to do the same.

Nelson Mandela

The love for all living creatures

is the most noble attribute of man.

Charles Darwin

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

K-Wave

There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom,

lovers of honor and lovers of gain.

Plato

The successful forms of life are the parasites,

the ones who bleed their environment to

optimal exploitation, who stunt everything

 by taking a lion's share, who leave

their hosts alive but shriveled.

Adam Johnson

If a group of beings 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

Many of the actions by which men have

become rich are far more harmful to

the community than the obscure crimes of

poor men, yet they go unpunished because

they do not interfere with the existing order.

Bertrand Russell

Do not waste your time on social questions.

What is the matter with the poor is poverty;

what is the matter with the rich is uselessness.

George Bernard Shaw

The inherent vice of capitalism is

the unequal sharing of blessings.

The inherent virtue of socialism

is the equal sharing of miseries.

Winston Churchill

Both optimists and pessimists contributes

to society. The optimist invents the airplane,

the pessimist the parachute.

George Bernard Shaw

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

Why should man expect his prayer for mercy

to be heard by what is above him when he

shows no mercy to those under his power?

Pierre Troubetzkoy

Jo Frederiks

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 stories we tell literally make the world.

If you want to change the world,

you need to change your story.

Michael Margolis

The animal liberation movement is fighting

what is arguably the most entrenched

and widespread form of exploitation

in human history: speciesism.

Melanie Joy

In relation to animals, all people are Nazis;

for the animals it is an eternal Treblinka.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

The greatness of a nation and its moral progress

can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

Mahatma Gandhi

📷 Ethics & Art 🖌️

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

The purpose of art is to stop time.

Bob Dylan

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

An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.

Charles Bukowski

I am an artist at living -

my work of art is my life.

D.T. Suzuki

I think having land and not ruining it

is the most beautiful art that

anybody could ever want.

Andy Warhol

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.

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

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

Humanity's true moral test, its fundamental

test... consists of its attitude towards those

who are at its mercy: animals.

Milan Kundera

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

The Measure of Man

The measure of a man is 

what he does with power.

Plato

Human greatness does not lie in wealth

or power but in character and goodness.

Anne Frank

The human being cannot live in a condition

of emptiness for very long: if he is not growing

toward something, he does not merely stagnate;

the pent-up potentialities turn into morbidity

and despair, and eventually into

destructive activities.

Rollo May

No man is more unhappy than he who never

faces adversity. For he is not permitted

to prove himself.

Seneca

The greatness of a man is not in how much

wealth he acquires, but in his integrity

and his ability to affect those

around him positively.

Bob Marley

A life without self-reflection and exploration

is not one worth living.

Socrates

Only a man who knows what it is like to be

defeated can reach down to the bottom of

his soul and come up with the extra

ounce of power it takes to win

when the match is even.

Muhammad Ali

The obedient always thinks of themselves

as virtuous rather than cowardly.

George Carlin

Making the simple complicated is commonplace;

making the complicated simple, awesomely

simple, that's creativity.

Charles Mingus

You are in danger of living a life so comfortable

and soft, that you will die without ever

realizing your true potential.

David Goggins

Excellence in anything increases

your potential in everything.

Joe Rogan

The key to happiness doesn't lay in numbers in a

bank account but in the way we make others feel

and the way they make us feel.

Joe Rogan

The true worth of a man is to be

measured by the objects he pursues.

Marcus Aurelius

The ultimate measure of a man is not

where he stands in moment of comfort

and convenience, but where he stands

at times of challenge and controversy.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

My strength needs no victims.

My strength is my compassion.

Patrik Baboumian

Pursue what's in your heart, and

the universe will conspire to support you.

Rich Roll

We can judge the heart of a man

by his treatment of animals.

Immanuel Kant

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

We should be measured by how we treat

the most vulnerable and powerless

in our society.

Cory Booker

Compassion for animals is intimately associated

with goodness of character, and it may be

confidently asserted that he who is cruel

to animals cannot be a good man.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Man's highest duty is to protect

animals from cruelty.

 

Émile Zola

The opposite of courage is not cowardice,

it is conformity. Even a dead fish

can go with the flow.

Jim Hightower

Whoever fights monsters should see to it that

in the process he does not become a monster.

And if you gaze long enough into an abyss,

the abyss will gaze back into you.

Friedrich Nietzsche

When evil men plot, good men must plan.

When evil men burn and bomb,

good men must build and bind.

When evil men shout ugly words of hatred,

good men must commit themselves

to the glories of love.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

No people have risen who thought only of rights.

Only those did so who thought of duties.

Mahatma Gandhi

Nature, in her indifference, makes no

distinction between good and evil.

Anatole France

Chaos was the law of nature;

order was the dream of man.

Henry Adams

If you are not liberal when you are young,

you have no heart,

and if you are not conservative when old,

you have no brain.

Winston Churchill

There comes a time when one must choose

between contemplation and action.

This is called becoming a man.

Albert Camus

Competition is the law of the jungle,

but cooperation is the law of civilization.

Peter Kropotkin

When bad men combine, the good must

associate; else they will fall one by one.

Edmund Burke

Black History

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery,

I feel a strong impulse to see it tried

on him personally.

Abraham Lincoln

The white man's happiness cannot be

purchased by the black man's misery.

Fredrick Douglass

You can always count on Americans to do

the right thing - after they've tried

everything else.

Winston Churchill

All truth passes through three stages.

First, it is ridiculed.

Second, it is violently opposed.

Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Those who tell the stories rule society.

Plato

It's so clear that you have to cherish everyone.

I think that's what I get from these older black

women, that every soul is to be cherised,

that every flower is to bloom.

Alice Walker

The greatest crime against the black man

was not slavery or lynching, but that he was

taught to wear a mask of self-hate and self-doubt.

Malcolm X

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

Animals are my friends...

and I don't eat my friends.

George Bernard Shaw

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

Once we accept this view of animals - as our

resources - the rest is as predictable

as it is regrettable.

Tom Reagan

The soul is the same in all living creatures,

although the body of each is different.

Hippocrates

I don’t want to eat anything that had a mother.

Fred Rogers

I don't see why someone should lose their life

just so you can have a snack.

Russell Brand

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

Jo Frederiks

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

The pain that we cause is the cause of our pain.

Leif Erikson

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

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

Jo Frederiks

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