Eating Animals Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes

#1. I don't blame David Stern because a player gets on the court and he doesn't put out competitively. No one can make you play if you don't want to play.

Oscar Robertson

#2. If we are not given the option to live without violence, we are given the choice to center our meals around harvest or slaughter, husbandry or war. We have chosen slaughter. We have chosen war. That's the truest version of our story of eating animals.
Can we tell a new story?

Jonathan Safran Foer

#3. I met Ashley two weeks before I married him. It was a joke-the most ridiculous thing I've ever done. Once I was married, I didn't want to be a failure, so I stuck it out for six months, which was about six months too long.

Shannen Doherty

#4. Elections were the womb of chaos.

Barry Sierer

#5. The world is not against you, but the world is a place where bad things happen. It's just true. Airlines crash, people do evil things. A lot of bad things happen and it causes pain.

Philip Yancey

#6. The heaviest object in the world is the body of the woman you have ceased to love.

Luc De Clapiers

#7. We need a better way to talk about eating animals, a way that doesn't ignore or even just shruggingly accept things like habits, cravings, family and history but rather incorporates them into the conversation. The more they are allowed in, the more able we will be to follow our best instincts.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#8. I'll admit, right away, that I am disappointed that we did not have a major trophy to show for our efforts. We were in four and we had a good side, but when you count second place as failure, then standards are becoming fantastically high. We never celebrate second place here.

Bob Paisley

#9. I Just Got So Emo That I Just Fell Apart!!

Gerard Way

#10. I am the type of guy that has always been the same all of my life. My classmates at our class reunion always say the same thing. They could not believe that, being a world artist, I still seem like I was when we were at school together.

Percy Sledge

#11. Ninety-nine percent of all land animals eaten or used to produce milk and eggs in the United States are factory farmed. So although there are important exceptions, to speak about eating animals today is to speak about factory farming.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#12. Bear in mind that you commit a crime by injuring even a wicked brother.

Seneca The Younger

#13. Nothing in life is guaranteed. You can't predict how many days you'll have on this Earth, how many more sunsets you'll be here to see. I want you to make me a promise. Always watch the sunset, baby girl.

Jessica Prince

#14. Given that eating animals is in absolutely no way necessary for my family - unlike some in the world, we have easy access to a wide variety of other foods - should we ear animals?

Jonathan Safran Foer

#15. I seldom speak on songs, as in when people ask me for fave songs. I really have only fave parts.

Gylve Nagell

#16. In fact, the possibility was so far out of the question, the possibility and the question were on separate continents.

Tessa Dare

#17. Run often. Run long. But never outrun your joy of running.

Julie Isphording

#18. There is something about eating animals that tends to polarize: never eat them or never sincerely question eating them; become an activist or disdain activists.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#19. The justifications for eating animals and for not eating them are often identical: we are not them.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#20. I'm very sensitive to the English language. I studied the dictionary obsessively when I was a kid and collect old dictionaries. Words, I think, are very powerful and they convey an intention.

Drew Barrymore

#21. For our own species, evolution occurs mostly through our behavior. We innovate new behavior to adapt.

Michael Crichton

#22. Ultimately, the controversy around PETA may have less to do with the organization than with those of us who stand in judgment of it - that is, with the unpleasant realization that "those PETA people" have stood up for the values we have been too cowardly or forgetful to defend ourselves.

Jonathan Safran Foer