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  • #1
    Peter Singer
    “All the arguments to prove man's superiority cannot shatter this hard fact: in suffering the animals are our equals.”
    Peter Singer

  • #2
    Jonathan Safran Foer
    “While it is always possible to wake a person who's sleeping, no amount of noise will wake a person who is pretending to be asleep.”
    Jonathan Safran Foer, Eating Animals

  • #3
    Peter Singer
    “If possessing a higher degree of intelligence does not entitle one human to use another for his or her own ends, how can it entitle humans to exploit non-humans?”
    Peter Singer, Animal Liberation

  • #4
    Peter Singer
    “The notion that human life is sacred just because it is human life is medieval.”
    Peter Singer

  • #5
    Peter Singer
    “To protest about bullfighting in Spain, the eating of dogs in South Korea, or the slaughter of baby seals in Canada while continuing to eat eggs from hens who have spent their lives crammed into cages, or veal from calves who have been deprived of their mothers, their proper diet, and the freedom to lie down with their legs extended, is like denouncing apartheid in South Africa while asking your neighbors not to sell their houses to blacks.”
    Peter Singer, Animal Liberation

  • #6
    Daniel J. Boorstin
    “The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.”
    Daniel J. Boorstin

  • #7
    Richard Dawkins
    “We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.”
    Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion

  • #8
    Richard Dawkins
    “There is something infantile in the presumption that somebody else has a responsibility to give your life meaning and point… The truly adult view, by contrast, is that our life is as meaningful, as full and as wonderful as we choose to make it.”
    Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion

  • #9
    Carl Sagan
    “The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.”
    Carl Sagan, Cosmos

  • #10
    Kilian Jornet
    “Winning isn't about finishing in first place. It isn't about beating the others. It is about overcoming yourself. Overcoming your body, your limitations, and your fears. Winning means surpassing yourself and turning your dreams into reality.”
    Kilian Jornet, Córrer o Morir

  • #11
    Jonathan Safran Foer
    “Not responding is a response - we are equally responsible for what we don't do.”
    Jonathan Safran Foer, Eating Animals

  • #12
    Jonathan Safran Foer
    “Just how destructive does a culinary preference have to be before we decide to eat something else? If contributing to the suffering of billions of animals that live miserable lives and (quite often) die in horrific ways isn't motivating, what would be? If being the number one contributor to the most serious threat facing the planet (global warming) isn't enough, what is? And if you are tempted to put off these questions of conscience, to say not now, then when?”
    Jonathan Safran Foer, Eating Animals

  • #13
    Jonathan Safran Foer
    “Not responding is a response--we are equally responsible for what we don't do. In the case of animal slaughter, to throw your hands in the air is to wrap your fingers around a knife handle.”
    Jonathan Safran Foer, Eating Animals

  • #14
    Jonathan Safran Foer
    “Do you eat chicken because you are familiar with the scientific literature on them and have decided that their suffering doesn't matter, or do you do it because it tastes good?”
    Jonathan Safran Foer, Eating Animals

  • #15
    Jonathan Safran Foer
    “Something having been done just about everywhere just about always is no kind of justification for doing it now.”
    Jonathan Safran Foer, Eating Animals

  • #16
    Jonathan Safran Foer
    “Ironically, the utterly unselective omnivore -- "I'm easy; I'll eat anything" -- can appear more socially sensitive than the individual who tries to eat in a way that is good for society.”
    Jonathan Safran Foer, Eating Animals

  • #17
    Jonathan Safran Foer
    “Whether we're talking about fish species, pigs, or some other eaten animal, is such suffering the most important thing in the world? Obviously not. But that's not the question. Is it more important that sushi, bacon, or chicken nuggets? That's the question.”
    Jonathan Safran Foer, Eating Animals

  • #18
    Jonathan Safran Foer
    “The philosopher Elaine Scarry has observed that "beauty always takes place in the particular." Cruelty, on the other hand, prefers abstraction.”
    Jonathan Safran Foer, Eating Animals

  • #19
    Jonathan Safran Foer
    “I'm not better than anyone, and I'm not trying to convince people to live by my standards of what's right. I'm trying to convince them to live by their own.”
    Jonathan Safran Foer, Eating Animals

  • #20
    Jonathan Safran Foer
    “Cruelty depends on an understanding of cruelty, and the ability to choose against it. Or to choose to ignore it.”
    Jonathan Safran Foer, Eating Animals

  • #21
    Jonathan Safran Foer
    “It's an empowering idea. The entire goliath of the food industry is driven and determined by the choices we make as the waiter gets impatient for our order or in the practicalities ad whimsies of what we load into our shopping carts or farmers'-market bags.”
    Jonathan Safran Foer, Eating Animals

  • #22
    Andy Weir
    “Also, I have duct tape. Ordinary duct tape, like you buy at a hardware store. Turns out even NASA can’t improve on duct tape.”
    Andy Weir, The Martian

  • #23
    Liu Cixin
    “In the shooter hypothesis, a good marksman shoots at a target, creating a hole every ten centimeters. Now suppose the surface of the target is inhabited by intelligent, two-dimensional creatures. Their scientists, after observing the universe, discover a great law: “There exists a hole in the universe every ten centimeters.” They have mistaken the result of the marksman’s momentary whim for an unalterable law of the universe. The farmer hypothesis, on the other hand, has the flavor of a horror story: Every morning on a turkey farm, the farmer comes to feed the turkeys. A scientist turkey, having observed this pattern to hold without change for almost a year, makes the following discovery: “Every morning at eleven, food arrives.” On the morning of Thanksgiving, the scientist announces this law to the other turkeys. But that morning at eleven, food doesn’t arrive; instead, the farmer comes and kills the entire flock.”
    Liu Cixin, The Three-Body Problem

  • #24
    Melanie  Joy
    “Think about it: virtually every atrocity in the history of humankind was enabled by a populace that turned away from a reality that seemed too painful to face, while virtually every revolution for peace and justice has been made possibly by a group of people who chose to bear witness and demanded that others bear witness as well.”
    Melanie Joy, Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows: An Introduction to Carnism



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