"I'm tired of this back-slappin' "aren't humanity neat" bullshit. We're a virus with shoes."
— Bill Hicks

"This is very important -- to take leisure time. Pace is the essence. Without stopping entirely and doing nothing at all for great periods, you're gonna lose everything...just to do nothing at all, very, very important. And how many people do this in modern society? Very few. That's why they're all totally mad, frustrated, angry and hateful."
— Charles Bukowski

"It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane."
— Philip K. Dick

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."
— Mark Twain

"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect."
— Mark Twain

"The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time."
— Mark Twain

"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all."
— Oscar Wilde

"Music gives soul to the universe
wings to the mind
flight to the imagination
and life to everything"
— Plato

"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe."
— Albert Einstein

"I have no doubt that it is part of the destiny of the human race in it's gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals."
— Henry David Thoreau

"Animals are my friends...and I don't eat my friends."
— George Bernard Shaw

"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one."
— George Bernard Shaw

"A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite. And to act so is immoral."
— Leo Tolstoy

"Every man and every living creature has a sacred right to the gladness of springtime."
— Leo Tolstoy (Resurrection)

"When one's head is gone one doesn't weep over one's hair!"
— Leo Tolstoy (War and Peace)

"As long as there are slaughter houses there will always be battlefields."
— Leo Tolstoy

"You can judge a man's true character by the way he treats his fellow animals."
— Paul McCartney

"I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens. "
— Isaac Bashevis Singer

"Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight."
— Albert Schweitzer

"I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men."
— Leonardo da Vinci

"Now I can look at you in peace; I don't eat you any more."
— Franz Kafka

"Flesh eating is unprovoked murder."
— Benjamin Franklin

"Ethically they had arrived at the conclusion that man's supremacy over lower animals meant not that the former should prey upon the latter, but that the higher should protect the lower, and that there should be mutual aid between the two as between man and man. They had also brought out the truth that man eats not for enjoyment but to live."
— Mahatma Gandhi

""If slaughterhouses had glass walls, the whole world would be vegetarian."
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— Linda McCartney (Linda's Kitchen: Simple and Inspiring Recipes for Meatless Meals)

"While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered beasts, how can we expect any ideal conditions on this earth?"
— George Bernard Shaw

"By eating meat we share the responsibility of climate change, the destruction of our forests, and the poisoning of our air and water. The simple act of becoming a vegetarian will make a difference in the health of our planet."
— Thich Nhat Hanh (The World We Have: A Buddhist Approach to Peace and Ecology)

"People often say that humans have always eaten animals, as if this is a justification for continuing the practice. According to this logic, we should not try to prevent people from murdering other people, since this has also been done since the earliest of times."
— Isaac Bashevis Singer

"It is my view that the vegetarian manner of living, by its purely physical effect on the human temperament, would most beneficially influence the lot of mankind."
— Albert Einstein

"Humanity's true moral test, its fundamental test, consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals. And in this respect humankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it."
— Milan Kundera

"…rest, nature, books, music…such is my idea of happiness…"
— Leo Tolstoy

"Without music, life would be a mistake."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

"In heaven, all the interesting people are missing."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

"If anyone spends almost the whole day in reading...he gradually loses the capacity for thinking...This is the case with many learned persons; they have read themselves stupid"
— Arthur Schopenhauer

"...there ain't no journey what don't change you some.

Zachry"
— David Mitchell (Cloud Atlas)

"When someone tells you they’ve just bought a house, they might as well tell you they no longer have a personality. You can immediately assume so many things: that they’re locked into jobs they hate; that they’re broke; that they spend every night watching videos; that they’re fifteen pounds overweight; that they no longer listen to new ideas. It’s profoundly depressing. "
— Douglas Coupland (Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture)

"For those who believe in God, most of the big questions are answered. But for those of us who can't readily accept the God formula, the big answers don't remain stone-written. We adjust to new conditions and discoveries. We are pliable. Love need not be a command nor faith a dictum. I am my own god. We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our educational system. We are here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us."
— Charles Bukowski

"Sometimes you just have to pee in the sink."
— Charles Bukowski

"The world is like a ride at an amusement park, and when you choose to go on it, you think it's real, because that's how powerful our minds are. And the ride goes up and down and round and round and it has thrills and chills and it's very brightly colored and it's very loud. And it's fun, for a while.

Some people have been on the ride for a long time, and they begin to question: 'Is this real? Or is this just a ride?' And other people have remembered, and they come back to us and they say 'Hey! Don't worry, don't be afraid - ever - because... this is just a ride.' And we kill those people.

'Shut him up! We have a lot invested in this ride! Shut him up! Look at my furrows of worry; look at my big bank account, and my family. This has to be real.'

It's just a ride. But we always kill those good guys who try and tell us that - ever notice that? - and we let the demons run amok. But it doesn't matter, because... it's just a ride, and we can change it any time we want. It's only a choice. No effort. No worry. No job. No savings and money. Just a choice, right now, between fear and love. The eyes of fear want you to put bigger locks on your door, buy bigger guns, close yourself off. The eyes of love, instead, see all of us as one.

Here's what we can do to change the world, right now, into a better ride. Take all that money we spend on weapons and defense each year and, instead, spend it feeding, clothing and educating the poor of the world, which it would do many times over - not one human being excluded - and we can explore space together, both inner and outer, forever. In peace. "
— Bill Hicks

"That's why they call it the American Dream, because you have to be asleep to believe it"
— George Carlin

"Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace."
— Albert Schweitzer

"In the past we have tried to make a distinction between animals which we acknowledge have some value and other which, having none, can be liquidated when we wish. This standard must be abandoned. Everything that lives has value simply as a living thing, as one of the manifestations of the mystery that is life."
— Albert Schweitzer

"We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing."
— George Bernard Shaw

"You put a baby in a crib with an apple and a rabbit. If it eats the rabbit and plays with the apple, I'll buy you a new car."
— Harvey Diamond

"A quotation is a handy thing to have about, saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself."
— A.A. Milne

"A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on. A psychotic is a guy who's just found out what's going on."
— William S. Burroughs