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#1

“When women hold off from marrying men, we call it independence. When men hold off from marrying women, we call it fear of commitment.”
― Warren Farrell

tags: commitment, independence, marriage, men, women

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#2

“It is in the interests of both sexes to hear the other sex's experience of powerlessness.”
― Warren Farrell

tags: feminism, psychology

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#3

“When a man is able to connect with his feelings, he is able to care more.”
― Warren Farrell

tags: connect, feelings

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#4

“I am a men's liberationist (or "masculist") when men's liberation is defined as equal opportunity and equal responsibility for both sexes. I am a feminist when feminism favors equal opportunities and responsibilities for both sexes. I oppose both movements when either says our sex is THE oppressed sex, therefore, "we deserve rights." That's not gender liberation but gender entitlement. Ultimately, I am in favor of neither a women's movement nor a men's movement but a gender transition movement.”
― Warren Farrell, The Myth of Male Power

tags: feminism, gender, men

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#5

“Every day in about half the advertisements, a man sees the constant reminder of the woman he was not worthy of.”
― Warren Farrell, Why Men Are the Way They Are

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#6

“It's a pretty amazing to wake up every morning, knowing that every decision I make is to cause as little harm as possible. It's a pretty fantastic way to live.”
― Colleen Patrick-Goudreau

tags: health, raw-foods, vegan, vegetarian, wellness

108 likes

#7

“Human beings are a part of the animal kingdom, not apart from it. The separation of "us" and "them" creates a false picture and is responsible for much suffering. It is part of the in-group/out-group mentality that leads to human oppression of the weak by the strong as in ethic, religious, political, and social conflicts.”
― Marc Bekoff, Animals Matter: A Biologist Explains Why We Should Treat Animals with Compassion and Respect

tags: animal-rights, speciesism, suffering-life, vegan

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#8

“Dominion does not mean domination. We hold dominion over animals only because of our powerful and ubiquitous intellect. Not because we are morally superior. Not because we have a "right" to exploit those who cannot defend themselves. Let us use our brain to move toward compassion and away from cruelty, to feel empathy rather than cold indifference, to feel animals' pain in our hearts.”
― Marc Bekoff, Animals Matter: A Biologist Explains Why We Should Treat Animals with Compassion and Respect

tags: animal-rights, brain, feel, pain, speciesism, vegan

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#9

“Make ethical choices in what we buy, do, and watch. In a consumer-driven society our individual choices, used collectively for the good of animals and nature, can change the world faster than laws.”
― Marc Bekoff, Animals Matter: A Biologist Explains Why We Should Treat Animals with Compassion and Respect

tags: animal-rights, ethics, law, shop, vegan

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#10

“The distinction between meat and other animal products is total nonsense. Vegetarianism is a morally incoherent position. If you regard animals as members of the moral community, you really don’t have a choice but to go vegan.”
― GaryLFrancione

tags: animal-products, dairy, francione, milk, moral-incoherent, vegan, vegetarianism

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#11

“Because we have viewed other animals through the myopic lens of our self-importance, we have misperceived who and what they are. Because we have repeated our ignorance, one to the other, we have mistaken it for knowledge.”
― Tom Regan

tags: animals, humans

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#12

“To be 'for animals' is not to be 'against humanity.' To require others to treat animals justly, as their rights require, is not to ask for anything more nor less in their case than in the case of any human to whom just treatment is due. The animal rights movement is a part of, not opposed to, the human rights movement. Attempts to dismiss it as anti human are mere rhetoric.”
― Tom Regan, The Case for Animal Rights

tags: animal-rights, human-rights

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#13

“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

tags: animals, eating, meat, responsibility, slaughter

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#14

“Whether we change our lives or do nothing, we have responded. To do nothing is to do something.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Eating Animals

tags: animals, vegetarian, vegetarianism

185 likes

#15

“Humans — who enslave, castrate, experiment on, and fillet other animals — have had an understandable penchant for pretending animals do not feel pain. A sharp distinction between humans and 'animals' is essential if we are to bend them to our will, make them work for us, wear them, eat them — without any disquieting tinges of guilt or regret. It is unseemly of us, who often behave so unfeelingly toward other animals, to contend that only humans can suffer. The behavior of other animals renders such pretensions specious. They are just too much like us.”
― Carl Sagan

tags: animals, behavior, compassion, suffer, vegetarian

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#16

“To identify with others is to see something of yourself in them and to see something of them in yourself--even if the only thing you identify with is the desire to be free from suffering.”
― Melanie Joy, Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows: An Introduction to Carnism

tags: animals, factory-farming, food, identifying, meat, people, suffering

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#17

“Although other animals may be different from us, this does not make them LESS than us”
― Marc Bekoff, Animals Matter: A Biologist Explains Why We Should Treat Animals with Compassion and Respect

tags: animal-rights, animals, speciesism, suffer

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#18

“So it is always preferable to discuss the matter of veganism in a non-judgemental way. Remember that to most people, eating flesh or dairy and using animal products such as leather, wool, and silk, is as normal as breathing air or drinking water. A person who consumes dairy or uses animal products is not necessarily or usually what a recent and unpopular American president labelled an "evil doer.”
― GaryLFrancione

tags: ableist, abolition, abolitionist, ahimsa, animals, classism, climate-change, easy, education, exploitation, extinction, francione, global-warming, health, heterosexism, inspirational-quotes, justice, leather, life, moral-imperative, moral-obligation, non-judgemental, nonviolence, nonviolence-jainism, peace-making, peace-movement, peace-on-earth, racism, rights, sentience, sexism, silk, slavery, speciesism, veganism, vulnerable, wisdom, wool

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#19

“We are not encouraged, on a daily basis, to pay careful attention to the animals we eat. On the contrary, the meat, dairy, and egg industries all actively encourage us to give thought to our own immediate interest (taste, for example, or cheap food) but not to the real suffering involved. They do so by deliberately withholding information and by cynically presenting us with idealized images of happy animals in beautiful landscapes, scenes of bucolic happiness that do not correspond to anything in the real world. The animals involved suffer agony because of our ignorance. The least we owe them is to lessen that ignorance.”
― Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, The Face on Your Plate: The Truth About Food

tags: animals, dairy, eggs, factory-farming, food, ignorance, industry, meat

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#20

“We need another and a wiser and perhaps a more mystical concept of animals. Remote from universal nature and living by complicated artifice, man in civilization surveys the creature through the glass of his knowledge and sees thereby a feather magnified and the whole image in distortion. We patronize them for their incompleteness, for their tragic fate for having taken form so far below ourselves. And therein do we err. For the animal shall not be measured by man. In a world older and more complete than ours, they move finished and complete, gifted with the extension of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear. They are not brethren, they are not underlings: they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendour and travail of the earth.”
― Henry Beston, The Outermost House: A Year of Life On The Great Beach of Cape Cod

tags: animals

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#21

“We love dogs and eat cows not because dogs and cows are fundamentally different--cows, like dogs, have feelings, preferences, and consciousness--but because our perception of them is different.”
― Melanie Joy, Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows: An Introduction to Carnism

tags: animals, carnism, cows, dogs, ethics, meat

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#22

“Zoos are becoming facsimiles - or perhaps caricatures - of how animals once were in their natural habitat. If the right policies toward nature were pursued, we would need no zoos at all.”
― Michael J. Fox, Always Looking Up: The Adventures of an Incurable Optimist

tags: animals, zoos

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#23

“Human beings have capitalized on the silence of animals, just as certain human beings have historically imposed silence on certain other human beings by denying slaves the right to literacy, denying women the right to own property, and denying both the right to vote.”
― Gary Steiner, Animals and the Moral Community: Mental Life, Moral Status, and Kinship

tags: animals, domestication, injustice, justice, morality, oppression, power, silence, slavery, tragedy, veganism, violence

24 likes

#24

“What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.”
― Jane Goodall

tags: inspiration

3540 likes

#25

“We have the choice to use the gift of our life to make the world a better place--or not to bother”
― Jane Goodall

187 likes

#26

“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”
― Anne Frank, Anne Frank's Tales from the Secret Annex: A Collection of Her Short Stories, Fables, and Lesser-Known Writings

tags: activism, life, optimism, philosophy, world

13380 likes

#27

“Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.”
― Frank Zappa

tags: music, philosophy, progress

5524 likes

#28

“To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.”
― Abraham Maslow

tags: tools

1495 likes

#29

“If a theory purports to explain everything, then it is likely not explaining much at all.”
― Massimo Pigliucci

tags: science

23 likes

#30

“Given the power and influence that science increasingly has in our daily lives, it is important that we as citizens of an open and democratic society learn to separate good science from bunk. This is not just a matter of intellectual curiosity, as it affects where large portions of our tax money go, and in some cases even whether people’s lives are lost as a result of nonsense.”
― Massimo Pigliucci, Nonsense on Stilts: How to Tell Science from Bunk

tags: science, skepticism

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