Be on the Right Side of History

I have no doubt that it is a part of the human

race, in its gradual improvement, to leave off

eating animals, as surely as the the savage

tribes have left off eating each other.

Henry David Thoreau

Non-violence leads to the highest ethics,

which is the goal of all evolution.

Until we stop harming all other

living beings, we are still savages.

Thomas Edison

Socrates (c. 470-399 BC)

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519)

Buddha (c. 5th to 4th century BCE)

Rosa Parks (1913-2005)

Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)

Nikola Tesla (1856-1943)

Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

Isaac Newton (1643-1727)

Thomas Edison (1847-1931)

Susan B. Anthony (1820-1906)

Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)

You Don't Have To Be A Genius

There can be no doubt as to which side is right

and which side is wrong, for compassionate

defense of life is a force of good and sadistic

mass destruction of life is a force for evil.

Paul Watson

The wrongfulness, the immorality of eating

animals has been recognized by all mankind

during all the conscious life of humanity.

Leo Tolstoy

Wrong does not cease to be wrong

because the majority share in it.

Leo Tolstoy

Now that we have learned to fly in the air

like birds and dive in the sea like fish,

only one thing remains - to learn

to live on earth as human beings.

George Bernard Shaw

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

Abolish

Insanity in individuals is something rare -

but in groups, parties, nations and epochs,

it is the rule.

Friedrich Nietzsche

If you want to know where you would have

stood on slavery before the Civil War,

don't look at where you stand on slavery today.

Look at where you stand on animal rights.

Paul Watson

Jo Frederiks

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

do to us. It is 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

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

Albert Schweitzer

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

As long as there are slaughterhouses

there will be battlefields.

Leo Tolstoy

I'm in favor of animal rights as well as human

rights. That is the way of a whole human being.

Abraham Lincoln

Animals are the main victims of history, and

the treatment of domesticated animals

in industrial farms is perhaps

the worst crime in history.

Yuval Noah Harari

Man's inhumanity to man is only

surpassed by his cruelty to animals.

George Bernard Shaw

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice

everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable

network of mutuality, tied in a single garment

of destiny. Whatever affects one directly,

affects all indirectly.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Every man is a creature of the age in which

he lives and few are able to raise themselves

above the ideas of the time.

Voltaire

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

One day the absurdity of the almost universal

human belief in the slavery of other animals

will be palpable. We shall then have

discovered our souls and become

worthier of sharing this planet with them.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

🥩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

Jo Frederiks

That was a door of my soul that I had never

opened before. And once I'd opened it,

I could never close it again because

I knew what those animals looked like

when they went onto the kill floor.

Howard Lyman

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

🔪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

🍖 Make the Connection 🐑

Compassion is ethical intelligence:

it is the capacity to make connections

and the consequent urge to act

to relieve the suffering of others.

Will Tuttle

I stopped eating meat some 50 years ago

when I looked at the pork chop on my plate

and thought: this represents fear, pain, death.

Jane Goodall

Jo Frederiks

Don't talk of love and peace when you

have a dead animal on your plate.

Socrates

I am determined not to kill, not to let others kill,

and not to support any act of killing in the world.

We should consume in such a way that helps

to reduce the suffering of living beings.

And that way we can preserve

compassion in our hearts.

Thich Nhat Hanh

Non-violence, which is the quality of the heart,

cannot come by an appeal to the brain.

Mahatma Gandhi

Compassion is an unstable emotion.

It needs to be translated into action,

or it withers.

Susan Sontag

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

Compassion, in which all ethics must take root,

can only attain its full breadth and depth

if it embraces all living creatures and

does not limit itself to mankind.

Albert Schweitzer

Until he extends his circle of compassion

to include all living creatures,

man will not himself find peace.

Albert Schweitzer

We cannot have peace among men whose hearts

delight in killing any living creature. By every

act that glorifies or even tolerates such

moronic delight in killing, we set back

the progress of humanity.

Rachel Carson

When a child kills an animal for fun,

we fear mental illness.

When an adult with the capacity to reason

does it, we call it 'sport'.

Seth MacFarlane

The violence of animal slaughter does not end

in the slaughter house, but reverberates

throughout, causing a whole world

of disharmony.

Faye Nagyivan

What do they know - all these scholars, all these

philosophers, all the leaders of the world -

about such as you? They have convinced

themselves that man, the worst transgressor

of all the species, is the crown of creation.

All other creatures were created merely to

provide him with food, pelts,

to be tormented, exterminated.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Animals and humans suffer and die alike.

Violence causes the same pain, the same

spilling of blood, the same stench of death,

the same arrogant, cruel, and brutal taking

of life. We don't have to be part of it.

Dick Gregory

Violence begins with the fork.

Mahatma Gandhi

The line separating good and evil passes

not through states, nor between political

parties either - but right through

every human heart.

Alexandr Solzhenitsyn

I felt that if I were to continue to live

in this world I had to do what I could

to reduce the suffering around me,

or at the very least, not to add to it....

I gave up eating meat.

I have not eaten it since.

Nick Cave

The Measure of Humanity

Humanity's true moral test, its fundamental

test... consists of its attitude towards those

who are at its mercy: animals.

Milan Kundera

The true measure of any society can be found

in how it treats its most vulnerable members.

Mahatma Gandhi

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

He who feeds a hungry animal,

feeds his own soul.

Charlie Chaplin

God loved the birds and invented trees.

Man loved the birds and invented cages.

Jacques Deval

How we treat the vulnerable is

how we define ourselves as a species.

Russell Brand

Injustice anywhere is a threat

to justice everywhere.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

I shall

Gather up

All the lost souls

That wander this earth

All the ones that are alone

All the ones that are broken

All the ones that never really fitted in

I shall gather them all up

And together we shall find our home.

Athey Thompson

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

Now I can look at you in peace;

I don't eat you anymore.

Franz Kafka

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 greatness of a nation and its moral progress

can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

Mahatma Gandhi

We cannot have peace among men whose hearts

delight in killing any living creature. By every

act that glorifies or even tolerates such

moronic delight in killing, we set back

the progress of humanity.

Rachel Carson

We should be measured by how we treat

the most vulnerable and powerless

in our society.

Cory Booker

The greatness of humanity is not in being human,

but in being humane.

Mahatma Gandhi

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

📷 Ethics & Art 🖌️

Art is not what you see,

but what you make others see.

Edgar Degas

Today's Guernica

The aim of art is to represent not

the outward appearance of things,

but their inward significance.

Aristotle

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

Beautiful makes you come back for more.

It makes you ask questions. That's part

of it's power. It makes you think about

the experience it's giving you.

Diane Keaton

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

Art is the lie that enables us

to realize the truth.

Pablo Picasso

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.