Quotes About Impact

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 mort important than sushi, bacon, or chicken nuggets? That's the question.

On average, Americans eat the equivalent of 21,000 entire animals in a lifetime—one

When we lift our forks, we hang our hats somewhere. We set ourselves in one relationship or another to farmed animals, farmworkers, national economies, and global markets. Not making a decision - eating like everyone else - is to make the easiest decision, a decision that is increasingly problematic.

Hoewel de bevolking dus niet profiteert van de bio-industrie, is het ironische ook nog eens dat ze niet alleen van ons verwachten dat we hun producten kopen, maar ook nog eens betalen voor hun fouten. Alle vervuiling, alle onkosten voor het opruimen van hun afval wentelen ze af op de gemeenschap. Hun prijzen zijn kunstmatig laag - voor alle verborgen kosten mag iedereen nog jarenlang betalen.

It might sound fantastic, but when we bother to look, it's hard to deny that our day-to-day choices shape the world.

omnivores contribute seven times the volume of greenhouse gases that vegans do.

One study found that roughly 4.5 million sea animals are killed as bycatch in longline fishing every year.

The average distance our meat travels hovers around fifteen hundred miles. That's like me driving from Brooklyn to the Texas Panhandle for lunch.

Just as nothing we do has the direct potential to cause nearly as much animal suffering as eating meat, no daily choice that we make has a greater impact on the environment.

Good writers are pleasing, very good writers make you feel and think, great writers make you change.

Het eten van dieren raakt ons in het diepste van ons wezen, in onze herinneringen, onze verlangens en onze waarden. Wat het bij ons losmaakt is potentieel controversieel, potentieel bedreigend, potentieel inspirerend, maar altijd betekenisvol.

Entweder suchen wir uns aus, was wir veraendern, oder wir werden diejenigen sein, auf die sich Veraenderungen auswirken

If a lie be believed only for an hour, it hath done its work.

Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it; so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale has had its effect: like a man, who has thought of a good repartee, when the discourse is changed, or the company parted; or like a physician, who has found out an infallible medicine, after the patient is dead.

Nothing except love itself touches us so intimately and forcibly as a good story told exactly right.

Yo no tengo autoridad moral para juzgar a nadie; en mi vida he hecho muchas locuras por amor y quien sabe si hare mas antes de morirme. El amor es un rayo que nos golpea de subito y nos cambia.

Cualquier pensamiento dañino, en la mente de cualquier hombre, puede en cualquier momento destruir el mundo.

Los dolores que no pudimos expresar en nuestra infancia los cargamos como una mochila, y se expresan con nuestras reacciones antes de que nos demos cuenta, de modo que nos encontramos instalados allí antes de poder pensar. Estas reacciones son las que nos causan más problemas en las relaciones íntimas.

No sabemos lo larga que es nuestra historia pero sentimos su peso.

Whatever one man does, it is as if all men did it. For that reason, it is not unfair that one disobedience in a garden should contaminate all humanity; for that reason it is not unjust that the crucifixion of a single Jew should be sufficient to save it.

Centuries and centuries of idealism have not failed to influence reality

What one man does is something done, in some measure, by all men. For that reason a disobedience committed in a garden contaminates the human race; for that reason it is not unjust that the crucifixion of a single Jew suffices to safe it. Perhaps Schopenhauer is right: I am all others, any men is all men, Shakespeare is in some way the wretched John Vincent Moon.

When people write in favor or against anybody, that hardly helps or hurts them...man can be done or undone by his own writing, not by what other people say of him.

Cada persona que pasa por nuestra vida es única. Siempre deja un poco de sí y se lleva un poco de nosotros. Habrá los que se llevarán mucho, pero no habrá de los que no nos dejarán nada. Esta es la prueba evidente de que dos almas no se encuentran por casualidad.