The indifference, callousness and contempt
that so many people exhibit toward animals
is evil first because it results in great suffering
in animals, and second because it results in
an incalculably great impoverishment
of the human spirit.
Albert Einstein
No man is capable of causing great evil
without thinking he's doing the right thing.
Socrates
Evil comes from a failure to think.
It defies thought for as soon as thought
tries to engage itself with evil and examine
the premises and principles from which it
originates, it is frustrated because
it finds nothing there.
That is the banality of evil.
Hannah Arendt
People seldom do what they believe in.
They do what is convenient.
Bob Dylan
The truth will set you free.
But first, it will piss you off.
Gloria Steinem
It's troubling when people get upset with vegans
for pointing out the suffering, rather than
getting upset with themselves for causing it.
Jo Tyler
Everything that irritates us about others
can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
Carl Jung
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
Those who lack the courage will always
find a philosophy to justify it.
Albert Camus
Psychologically speaking, one may say that
the hypocrite is too ambitious; not only does
he want to appear virtuous before others,
he wants to convince himself... Only
the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.
Hannah Arendt
I cannot conceive of a greater loss
than the loss of one's self-respect.
Mahatma Gandhi
It is not what we eat but what we digest
that makes us strong;
not what we gain but what we save
that makes us rich;
not what we read but what we remember
that makes us learned; and
not what we profess but what we practice
that gives us integrity.
Francis Bacon
Integrity is choosing your thoughts and actions
based on values rather than personal gain.
Chris Karcher
To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest
thing in the world is to act in accordance
with your thinking.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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
Teaching a child not to step on a caterpillar
is almost as valuable to the child
as it is to the caterpillar.
Bradley Miller
Happiness is when what you think,
what you say and what you do
are in harmony.
Mahatma Gandhi
If a man aspires towards a righteous life,
his first act of abstinence is
from injury to animals.
Albert Einstein
The reward for doing right is mostly
an internal phenomen; self-respect,
dignity, integrity, and self-esteem.
Laura Schlessinger
