🥩Meat is Murder 🐑🐖🐄🐓

From beasts we scorn as soulless,

In forest, field and den,

The cry goes up to witness,

The soullessness of men.

M. Frida Hartley

Flesh eating is unprovoked murder.

Benjamin Franklin

Jo Frederiks

The butcher with his bloody apron incites

bloodshed, murder... From cutting the throat

of a young calf to cutting the throats of

our brothers and sisters is but a step.

While we ourselves are living

graves of murdered animals...

Isadora Duncan

You either approve of violence or you don't,

and nothing on Earth is more violent

or extreme than the meat industry.

Morrissey

Feeling comfortable?

Until we have the courage to recognize cruelty

for what it is - whether its victim is human

or animal - we cannot expect things

to be much better in this world.

Rachel Carson

Cruelty to animals is as if man did not love

God... there is something so satanic in

tormenting those who have never harmed us,

and who cannot defend themselves,

who are utterly in our power.

John Henry Newman

Jo Frederiks

However scrupulously the slaughterhouse is

concealed in the graceful distance of miles,

there is complicity.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Unless and until you are prepared to look

at the whole truth; and wherever it may go,

if you want to look the other way or

if you want to play favourites, then

somewhere along the line you're going to

find out that you're messing with divine justice.

Jordan Maxwell

Truly man is the king of beasts.

We live by the death of others.

We are burial places.

Leonardo da Vinci

Jo Frederiks

All beings tremble before violence.

All fear death, all love life.

See yourself in others.

Then whom can you hurt?

What harm can you do?

Buddha

If you don't like seeing pictures of violence

towards animals being posted,

you need to help stop the violence,

not the pictures.

Marie Sarantakis

Jo Frederiks

Ruthless man... You turn against the dead flesh,

it revolts you, it must be transformed by fire,

boiled and roasted, seasoned and disguised with

drugs; you must have butchers, cooks, turnspits,

men who will rid the murder if its horrors,

who will dress the dead bodies so that the taste

deceived by these disguises will not reject what

is strange to it, and will feast on corpses,

the very sight of which would sicken you.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Indifference is the acid of life.

It erodes all the spirit that's in us

and makes us useless to anyone else.

Joan D. Chittister

The scariest thing about hearing the slaughter

is the silence that comes afterwards...

because you know there was a life...

and now there isn't.

Tal Gilboa

Who We Really Are

The whole universe is sum up in the human

being. Devil is not a monster waiting to

trap us. He is a voice inside. Look for your

devil in yourself, not in the others. Don't

forget that the one who knows his devil,

knows his God.

Shams Tabrizi

Jo Frederiks

10 percent of any population is cruel,

no matter what, and 10 percent is merciful,

no matter what, and the remaining

80 percent can be moved in any direction.

Susan Sontag

When all are guilty, no one is;

and the very magnitude of the crime

becomes the best excuse for doing nothing.

Hannah Arendt

Tsunami of Indifference

Evil thrives on apathy

and cannot exist without it.

Hannah Arendt

Any of us has the capacity for atrocity - 

just as each of us has the capacity for heroism.

David Mamet

Jo Frederiks

Your beliefs become your thoughts,

your thoughts become your words,

you words become your actions,

your actions become your habits,

your habits become your values,

your values become your destiny.

Mahatma Gandhi

A long habit of not thinking a thing is wrong,

gives it a superficial appearance of being right.

Thomas Paine

Jo Frederiks

Tomorrow the sun will rise to a world

without you in it. You've been given

no reason to live yet you'll fight for another

day in a world that broke your spirit,

that took your freedom and that

showed you the depth of cruelty

capable by humankind.

Emma Hurst

Only with awareness of carnism

can we reclaim our freedom of choice;

without awareness, there is no free choice.

Melanie Joy

Individuals

The systematic torture of sentient beings,

whatever the pretext and in whatever form,

cannot achieve anything more than it

already has: to show us what is the lowest

point of debasement man can reach.

Joaquin Phoenix

Often, vegan advocates assume that a person's

defensiveness is the result of selfishness or

apathy, when in fact it is much more likely

the result of systematic and intensive

social conditioning.

Melanie Joy

There are no conditions to which a person cannot

grow accustomed, especially if he sees that

everyone around him lives in the same way.

Leo Tolstoy

Execution of the Soul

Monsters exist, but they are too few in number

to be truly dangerous. More dangerous

are the common men, the functionaries

ready to believe and to act

without asking questions.

Primo Levi

Whoever does wrong, wrongs himself;

whoever does injustice, does it to himself,

making himself evil.

Marcus Aurelius

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

Both optimists and pessimists contributes

to society. The optimist invents the airplane,

the pessimist the parachute.

George Bernard Shaw

Life is no brief candle to me.

It is a sort of splendid torch

which I have got a hold of for the moment and

I want to make it burn as brightly as possible

before handing it on to future generations.

George Bernard Shaw

Freedom from Indoctrination

I have always felt that the way we treat animals

is a pretty good indicator of the compassion

we are capable of for the human race.

Ali MacGraw

A good heart will refuse the happiness

built on the misfortune of others.

Saadie

The line separating good and evil passes

not through states, nor between political

parties either - but right through

every human heart.

Alexandr Solzhenitsyn

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

Mad Men

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

The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die.

Friedrich Nietzsche

When a person can't find a deep sense

of meaning, they distract themselves

with pleasures.

Victor Frankl

People had a habit of looking at me as if I were

some kind of mirror instead of a person.

They didn't see me, they saw their own lewd

thoughts, then they white-masked themselves

by calling me the lewd one.

Marilyn Monroe

Everything that irritates us about others

can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

Carl Jung

Do not go where the path may lead. Go instead

where there is no path and leave a trail.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

What separates the talented individual from

the successful one is a lot of hard work.

Stephen King

Man will always be attracted to the woman

who reflects his deepest vision of himself,

the woman whose surrender permits him

to experience a sense of self-esteem.

Ayn Rand

Change is the only constant in life.

Ones ability to adapt to those changes

will determine your success in life.

Benjamin Franklin

Self Love 💝

Integrity: Choosing courage over comfort;

choosing what is right over what is fun, fast

or easy; and choosing to practice our values

rather than simply professing them.

Brené Brown

Integrity is doing the right thing.

Even when no one is watching.

C.S. Lewis

Find your purpose

You are God's masterpiece. You were designed for the purpose that you were made for. What are your gifts and passions?

Personal branding

- How do you want people to experience you?

- Have a set standard for yourself on how you look and behave. Treat others the way you want to be treated.

- Take pride in the way that you present yourself. No matter who you're interacting with - it's a reflection of you. Your self-identity depends on your conduct at all times.

Enjoy your blessings

Don't dim your light to make others comfortable. Don't let others define you.

I speak to everyone in the same way,

whether he is the garbage man or

the president of the university.

Albert Einstein

The true measure of a person's character is

how they treat others, especially those less

fortunate. Do not let success or failure

define you.

Marcus Aurelius

Luke 7:47

For this reason I say to you, her sins,

which are many, have been forgiven,

for she loved much; but he who is

forgiven little, loves little.

1. Education.

2. Awareness.

3. Detachment.

The most important thing to know

about yourself is what you pay attention to.

Yuval Noah Harari

In individuals, insanity is rare;

but in groups, parties, nations and epochs,

it is the rule.

Friedrich Nietzsche

- What are your values and goals?

- How do you spend your time and money?

- Are your habits aligned with who you want to be and the life that you want to live?

- Are what you think, say and do in harmony?

- Do you want others to do/say to you/someone you love, what you do/say to others/yourself?

- Do you honor your word? Do you keep your promises to yourself and to others?

- Do you respect yourself and your choices?

- How do you treat yourself, your body, your belongings and others?

- Write down what you want to change and what you'll do instead.

- Have a visual reminder. Remind yourself.

- Fast.

- Build habits.

- Track your behavior. Journal.

- Do you need help in certain areas?

- Do you have role models?

- Are people around you helping you or holding you down?

Self-respect is the fruit of discipline;

the sense of dignity grows with

the ability to say no to oneself.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

No man is free who cannot control himself.

Pythagoras

We gain the strength of

the temptations we resist.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

1. Don't take things personally.

2. Set goals.

3. Learn how to be happy alone.

4. Take care of your health.

5. Heal from your past.

Identity capital is our collection of personal

assets. It is the repertoire of individual

resources that we assemble over time.

These are the investments we make in ourselves,

the things we do well enough, or long enough,

that they become part of who we are.

Meg Jay

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then,

is not an act, but a habit.

Aristotle

- Personalize your life. Write down what you need to operate at your maximum potential.

- Personal excellence in everything (appearance, behavior, work etc). Go the extra mile.

- Pay no attention to haters.

- Be willing to learn.

- Have a neutral attitude to both compliments and negative opinions about you.

- Work on your posture. Eat and drink well. Exercise. Don't drink alcohol.

- Confidence in God.

It must be our business to act our given role

as best we possibly can and to refrain from

complaining about it. Where ever you find

yourself and in whatever circumstances,

give an impeccable performance.

Epictetus

My method is to take the utmost trouble

to find the right thing to say,

and then to say it with the utmost levity.

George Bernard Shaw

Learn the rules like a pro,

so you can break them as an artist.

Pablo Picasso

The only person with whom you have to

compare yourself is you in the past.

Sigmund Freud

In order to love yourself,

you must behave in ways that you admire.

Irvin D. Yalom

The path is the goal.

Mahatma Gandhi

Be humble, hungry and

the hardest worker in any room.

Dwayne Johnson

🔪From Slaughter to Sanctuary ❤️

We are all better off in a sanctuary 

instead of in a slaughterhouse.

Gene Baur

Be the one to break the chain

and bring the change.

Jyoti Chauhan

I expected to find monsters.

But I found something far more terrifying.

I found how easily humans can be

conditioned to do monstrous things.

Bobby Sud

The line separating good and evil passes

not through states, nor between political

parties either - but right through

every human heart.

Alexandr Solzhenitsyn

Am I not destroying my enemies

when I make friends of them?

Abraham Lincoln

The secret of change is to focus all of 

your energy, not on fighting the old,

but on building the new.

Socrates

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

Would this habit of eating animals not require

that we slaughter animals that we knew

as individuals, and in whose eyes

we could gaze and see ourselves reflected,

only a few hours before our meal?

Socrates

Your legacy is every life you've ever touched.

Maya Angelou

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

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

By killing, man suppresses in himself,

unnecessarily, the highest spiritual capacity,

that of sympathy and pity towards living

creatures like himself, and by violating

his own feelings becomes cruel.

Leo Tolstoy

He who sows the seed of murder and pain

cannot reap joy and love.

Pythagoras

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.

Pythagoras

As long as people will shed the blood of innocent

creatures there can be no peace, no liberty,

no harmony between people.

Slaughter and justice cannot dwell together.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

For to be free is not merely to cast off

one's chains, but to live in a way

that respects and enhances

the freedom of others.

Nelson Mandela

🦀🦑 Sealife 🐟🦐

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

We're at war with nature. If we win, we're lost.

Hubert Reeves

Many of us feel so removed from fish and other

animals from the sea that we don't think of

these beings as having lives that matter to them.

Their suffering remains invisible

even when it's in plain sight.

Melanie Joy

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

and no one will care about what

they have never experienced.

David Attenborough

The question is not, "Can they reason?"

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

Jeremy Bentham

Jo Frederiks

Animals can communicate quite well.

And they do. And generally speaking,

the are ignored.

Alice Walker

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

The greater your capacity for love,

the more beauty you find in the world.

Jane Smiley

The most ethical diet just so happens to be

the most environmentally sound diet and

just so happens to be the healthiest.

Michael Greger

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

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

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

I realized as I watched him fight for breath,

that his life was as important to him

as mine is to me.

Paul McCartney

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

Happiness is in your ability to love others.

Leo Tolstoy

We're all members of the animal kingdom.

Leave your brothers and sisters in the sea.

Prince

Even in the worm that crawls in the earth

there glows a divine spark. When you

slaughter a creature, you slaughter God.

Isaac Bashevis Singer