#aria

Look, PETA! If God hadn't wanted us to eat animals, he wouldn't have made them so darn tasty! ↗

— Stephen Colbert

#vegetarian #america

Librarians are essential players in the information revolution because they level that field. They enable those without money or education to read and learn the same things as the billionaire and the PhD. ↗

— Marilyn Johnson

#information #librarians #education

I can't count the times that upon telling someone I am vegetarian, he or she responded by pointing out an inconsistency in my lifestyle or trying to find a flaw in an argument I never made. (I have often felt that my vegetarianism matters more to such people than it does to me.) ↗

— Jonathan Safran Foer

#vegetarians #lifestyle

Glam culture is ultimately rooted in obsession, and those of us who are truly devoted and loyal to the lifestyle of glamour are masters of its history. Or, to put it more elegantly, we are librarians. ↗

— Lady Gaga

#lady-gaga #librarians #lifestyle

It took a bit of popcorn and a library snack bar to make me realize that being a librarian was about more than just giving people information. It was about serving a community. And if the community is hungry for more than just knowledge, then maybe it’s about time to open a snack bar. ↗

— Scott Douglas

#library #library-books #quiet-please #community

The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not a sufficient warrant. He cannot rightfully be compelled to do or forbear because it will be better for him to do so, because it will make him happier, because, in the opinions of others, to do so would be wise, or even right. These are good reasons for remonstrating with him, or reasoning with him, or persuading him, or entreating him, but not for compelling him, or visiting him with any evil, in case he do otherwise. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

#libertarian #liberty #power #community

It is a strange thing, but when you are dreading something, and would give anything to slow down time, it has a disobliging habit of speeding up. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#hungarian-horntail #panic #relativity #strange

You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#vegetarianism #ethics

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

— Albert Schweitzer

#ethics #peace #vegetarianism #ethics

While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered beasts, how can we expect any ideal conditions on this earth? ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#vegetarianism #ethics