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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

I am often described to my irritation as a 'contrarian' and even had the title inflicted on me by the publisher of one of my early books. (At least on that occasion I lived up to the title by ridiculing the word in my introduction to the book's first chapter.) It is actually a pity that our culture doesn't have a good vernacular word for an oppositionist or even for someone who tries to do his own thinking: the word 'dissident' can't be self-conferred because it is really a title of honor that has to be won or earned, while terms like 'gadfly' or 'maverick' are somehow trivial and condescending as well as over-full of self-regard. And I've lost count of the number of memoirs by old comrades or ex-comrades that have titles like 'Against the Stream,' 'Against the Current,' 'Minority of One,' 'Breaking Ranks' and so forth—all of them lending point to Harold Rosenberg's withering remark about 'the herd of independent minds.' Even when I was quite young I disliked being called a 'rebel': it seemed to make the patronizing suggestion that 'questioning authority' was part of a 'phase' through which I would naturally go. On the contrary, I was a relatively well-behaved and well-mannered boy, and chose my battles with some deliberation rather than just thinking with my hormones.


Christopher Hitchens


#contrarianism #dissent #dissidents #free-thought #harold-rosenberg

Librarian is a service occupation. Gas station attendant of the mind.


Richard Powers


#service

Reality is bizarre enough for me.


Jane Lane


#bizarre

In fact a few simple mathematical calculations reveal that if reference librarians were paid at market rates for all the roles they play, they would have salaries well over $200,000.


Will Manley


#mathematics

To be a vegetarian is to disagree - to disagree with the course of things today... starvation, cruelty - we must make a statement against these things. Vegetarianism is my statement. And I think it's a strong one.


Isaac Bashevis Singer


#animals #vegetarian #cruelty

TWO AND TWO MAKES FIVE


George Orwell


#orwell #russian-revolution #satire #satire

I became a vegetarian after realizing that animals feel afraid, cold, hungry and unhappy like we do. I feel very deeply about vegetarianism and the animal kingdom. It was my dog Boycott who led me to question the right of humans to eat other sentient beings.


César Chávez


#animal-kindness #animal-rights #vegan #vegetarian #cruelty

The state is that great fiction by which everyone tries to live at the expense of everyone else.


Frédéric Bastiat


#france #government #history #liberal #libertarian

The Revolution will be complete when the language is perfect.


George Orwell


#totalitarianism