"You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity."-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Other quotes I like:
"It's always better to be part of the solution instead of being part of the problem."- unknown
(This is what I allways answer to people stating that one person going vegan won't ever have an impact on the world- or I repeat it to myself when I feel hopeless and insignificant. This quote often helped me when I wanted to give up :))
"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
(I always laugh when I read this, but it's very true, isn't it ^.^)
"If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian"- Paul McCartney
(soooo true!!!)
"We all love animals. Why do we call some "pets" and others "dinner?""-k.d. lang
(I don't get it either :( )
"Truely man is the king of beasts, for his brutality exceeds theirs. We live by the death of others: we are burial places! I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will look on the murder of animals as they now look on the murder of men." Leonardo da Vinci
(What a smart guy...)
"It is only by softening and disguising dead flesh by culinary preparation that it is rendered susceptible of mastication or digestion, and that the sight of its bloody juices and raw horror does not excite intolerable loathing and disgust." -Percy Bysshe Shelley, Queen Mab Notes
(...)
"Think of the fierce energy concentrated in an acorn! You bury it in the ground, and it explodes into an oak! Bury a sheep, and nothing happens but decay." -George Bernard Shaw
(Never thought of it that way...)
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