Animal Holocaust

Auschwitz begins wherever someone

 looks at a slaughterhouse and thinks:

they're only animals.

Theodor Adorno

Do you know why so many survivors of

the Holocaust are vegan? Because

they know what it's like to be

treated like an animal.

Chuck Palahniuk

Human beings see oppression vividly

when they are the victims. Otherwise

they victimize blindly and without a thought.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Every.Day.

Holocaust victims were treated like animals,

and so logically we can conclude that

animals are treated like Holocaust victims.

Matt Prescott

Everyone believes in the atrocities of the enemy

and disbelieves in those of his own side,

without ever bothering to examine the evidence.

George Orwell

Jo Frederiks

Let me say it openly: we are surrounded by an

enterprise of cruelty which rivals anything that

the Third Reich was capable of, indeed dwarfs it,

in that ours is an enterprise without end,

self-regenerating, bringing animals ceaselessly

into the world for the purpose of killing them.

John Maxwell Coetzee

Our grandchildren will ask us one day:

Where were you during the Holocaust

of the animals? What did you do against

those horrifying crimes? We won't be

able to offer the same excuse for

the second time, that we didn't know.

Helmut Kaplan

When Will We Ever Learn

Only when we have become non violent

towards all life will we have learned

to live well with others.

César Chávez

'Never again' is not about what others shouldn't

do to us. It's about what we shouldn't do

to others. 'Never again' means that we must

never again perpetrate mass atrocities

against other living beings.

Alex Hershaft

In relation to animals, all people are Nazis;

for the animals it is an eternal Treblinka.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

💞 Holy Cow 🐄

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 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

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

 If we could live happy and healthy lives

without harming others,

why wouldn't we?

Pam Ahern

Animals are my friends...

and I don't eat my friends.

George Bernard Shaw

What we call love is in its essence

reverence for life.

Albert Schweitzer

This image was taken on a "kill line" inside

a slaughterhouse... My heart is

irreparably broken.

Sande Seldman Nosonowitz

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

Man is as much a parasite on the cow

as the tapeworm is on man.

Milan Kundera

To know even one life has breathed easier

because you have lived. This is

to have succeeded.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Animals have personalities like people.

Walt Disney

In every living being there is the desire for love.

D.H. Lawrence

A mother's love does not derive from

the intellect but from the emotions,

in animals just as in humans.

Maimonides

Now I can look at you in peace;

I don't eat you anymore.

Franz Kafka

In the end, only three things matter:

how much you loved, how gently you

lived, and how gracefully you let go

of things not meant for you.

Buddha

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

The more you discipline yourself,

the less you will be disciplined by others.

Napoleon Hill

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

Easy doesn't make you think.

Madonna

Change happens by listening and then

starting a dialogue with the people who are

doing something you don't believe is right.

Jane Goodall

If animals could speak, mankind would weep.

Anthony Douglas

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

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

Pythagoras

Think before you speak, read before you think.

Fran Lebowitz

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

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

You can tell more about a person by what

he says about others than you can by

what others say about him.

Audrey Hepburn

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

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

Listen with the intent to understand,

not the intent to reply.

Stephen Covey

Words are the clothes thoughts wear.

Samuel Becket

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

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

Intelligence is measured by a person's

ability to see validity within both sides

of contradicting arguments.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

The greatest thing in the world is not so much

where we stand as in what direction

we are moving.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

🦀What About Crustaceans? 🦞🦐

The question is not, Can they reason?

nor Can they talk? but rather,

Can they suffer?

Jeremy Bentham

Answer me, you who believe that animals are 

only machines. Has nature arranged for this

animal to have all the machinery of feelings

only in order for it not to have any at all?

Voltaire

No one will protect what they don't care about,

and no one will care about what

they have never experienced.

David Attenborough

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

The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die.

As well the minds which are prevented from

changing their opinions; they cease to be mind.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Do your little bit of good where you are;

it's those little bits of good put together

that overwhelm the world.

Desmond Tutu

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

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

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

Veganuary

The most ethical diet just so happens to be

the most environmentally sound diet and

just so happens to be the healthiest.

Michael Greger

Becoming vegan was the biggest change I ever

made in my life, and one of the greatest

accomplishments as well.

Woody Harrelson

It is the best decision I have ever made and I've

enjoyed it so much more than I could ever have

expected. It feels good to do the right thing.

Lucy Watson

Every person I have met who has gone vegan

says it is the best decision they have ever made.

Lewis Hamilton

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

My own view is that being vegan is not an end

in itself, but a means towards reducing both

human and animal suffering and leaving a

habitable planet to future generations.

Peter Singer

We love dogs and eat cows not because 

dogs and cows are fundamentally different -

but because our perception of them is different.

Melanie Joy

Being vegan is the right thing for yourself

and for the planet and animals.

Lenny Kravitz

What I want people to know is that it's a joy

to be vegan. It feels good intellectually,

morally, spiritually. It's just leading

with kindness basically. That's what we

all need to do. Lead with kindness

and that will change the world.

Jo-Ann McArthur

The good you want for others is also

the good that is meant for you.

Mastin Kipp

Being vegan for me is about trying to live a life

where I'm not contributing to

the cruelty in the world.

Jessica Chastain

I believe that every meat-free meal is a win

for animals and the planet. We're all

trying to make the world a bit better,

so why not sign up, take part, give it a go,

and see how you feel? It could be

the best thing you ever did.

Paul McCartney

It is better to do something than to do

nothing while waiting to do everything.

Winston Churchill

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

What you do makes a difference,

and you have to decide what kind

of difference you want to make.

Jane Goodall

Sometimes the smallest step in the right direction

ends up being the biggest step of your life.

Tip toe if you must, but take the step.

Naeem Callaway

If you look at the climate crisis or the violence

of our food system and feel helpless, thinking

'I wish there was something that I could do' -

you can. Right now. Sign up to try

vegan this January.

Joaquin Phoenix

Write Your Own Story 🪷

The most important relationship we can all have

is the one you have with yourself, the most

important journey you can take is one of

self-discovery. To know yourself, you must

spend time with yourself, you must not

be afraid to be alone. Knowing yourself

is the beginning of all wisdom.

Aristotle

It's not the events of our lives that shape us,

but our beliefs as to what those events mean.

Tony Robbins

Humans think in stories, and we try to

make sense of the world by telling stories.

Yuval Noah Harari

The stories we tell literally make the world.

If you want to change the world,

you need to change your story.

Michael Margolis

The mind and the body imprint each other.

What we think, we become.

What we become, we think.

Edgar Cayce

A season of loneliness and isolation

is when the caterpillar gets its wings.

Mandy Hale

It is a gift to not fit in. It sets you on a journey

of finding a sanctuary within yourself.

Brianna Wiest

Modern man lives under the illusion that he

knows what he wants, while he actually wants

what he is supposed to want. In order to accept

this it is necessary to realize that to know

 what one really wants is not comparatively

easy, as most people think, but one of the most

 difficult problems any being has to solve.

It is a task we frantically try to avoid

by accepting ready-made goals as though

they were our own.

Erich Fromm

We pursue external goals

to hit an internal emotional target.

Mastin Kipp

One of the greatest tragedies in life is to lose

your own sense of self and accept the version

of you that is expected by everyone else.

K.L. Toth

The person who follows the crowd will usually go

no further than the crowd. The person who

walks alone is likely to find himself in places

no one has ever seen before.

Albert Einstein

I much prefer the sharpest criticism of a single

intelligent man to the thoughtless approval

of the masses.

Johannes Kepler

1. Write down and practice your values.

2. Build a practice of contemplation.

3. Read. Expose yourself to people who had deeper thoughts than you.

You feel lonely not because nobody

is with you but because you are

not with you.

Shams Tabrizi

- Leave room for the unexpected.

- Find your unique way to contribute to someone's life.

- Set interesting goals and challenge yourself. Never stop learning.

- Slow down to appreciate what you already have.

- Fill your free time with meaningful hobbies.

Do not spoil what you have

by desiring what you have not;

remember that what you now have

was once among the things you only hoped for.

Epicurus

We live in a world where funerals are more

important than the deceased, marriage is more

important than love, looks are more important

than the soul. We live in a packaging

culture that despise content.

Sir Anthony Hopkins

Habits are the way you embody identity.

True behavior change is really identity change.

James Clear

Do not go where the path may lead. Go instead

where there is no path and leave a trail.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I don't know what your destiny will be,

but one thing I know: the only ones among you

who will be really happy are those

who sought and found how to serve.

Albert Schweitzer

Du ska tacka dina gudar,

om de tvingar dig att gå

där du inga fotspår

har att lita på.

Du ska tacka dina gudar,

om de gör all skam till din.

Du får söka tillflykt

lite längre in.

Det som hela världen dömer

reder sig ibland rätt väl.

Fågelfri var mången,

vann sin egen själ.

Den som tvingas ut i vildskog

ser med nyfödd syn på allt,

och han smakar tacksam

livets bröd och salt.

Du ska tacka dina gudar,

när de bryter bort ditt skal.

Verklighet och kärna

blir ditt enda val.

Karin Boye

Body Language

Body language is more powerful than words.

Ricky Gervais

- The art of eye contact.

- To be engaged is to be tuned in into every little movement and sound a person makes and how that plays into the words they're saying.

- To respect a person is to acknowledge that person and be engaged.

- Lean in. Speak clearly.

- While you're speaking, lose yourself in the person's face.

1. Being your worst self in public.

2. Being overly sexual.

3. Masculine body language cues.

a) Hunching

b) Legs spread apart.

c) Masculine gestures.

4. Masculine intonation when you speak.

5. Desperate look.

6. Stone cold.

7. Be feminine.

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch,

a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest

compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of

which have the potential to turn a life around.

Leo Buscaglia

1. Posture. Straighten your back. Shoulders back. Chest up. Elongate your neck.

2. Soft movement.

3. Elongate your body. Hold both legs together.

4. Expose your neck.

5. Pose: Place your leg in front of you and push your hip out.

6. Slower body movements.

7. Tilt your head and nod.

1. Eye contact.

2. Open posture.

3. Smile genuinely.

1. Natural posture.

2. The agreement.

3. Hands.

4. Head.

5. Speed.

6. Smile.

7. Eye contact.

Your body language shapes who you are.

Amy Cuddy