Gene Baur Quotes

#1. One of the tortures of jealousy is, that it can never turn away its eyes from the thing that pains it.

George Eliot

#2. The sixteen hundred dairies in California's Central Valley alone produce more waste than a city of twenty-one million people-that's more than the populations of London, New York, and Chicago combined.

Gene Baur

#3. It's a small thing to help one animal, but to that one animal it's a big thing

Gene Baur

#4. She loved details, and the world, and inevitably became lost in both. Violently beautiful sunsets could reduce her to tears. She was virtually incapacitated by fireflies.

Emily St. John Mandel

#5. If you can live well and be happy without causing unnecessary harm, why wouldn't you?

Gene Baur

#6. I want to rob a bank with a BB gun. "Give me all your money or I will give you a dimple! I will be rich, you will be cute. We both win."

Mitch Hedberg

#7. This lifestyle is not about deprivation. It's about living inspired.

Gene Baur

#8. A noted writer in The Washington Post recently described the cause of compassion for farm animals as the moral calling of our time.

Gene Baur

#9. Cooking is the showy side of domesticity.

Adam Gopnik

#10. Meat consumption shouldn't be normal.

Gene Baur

#11. I believe we can create a truly humane, sustainable, and health food production system without killing any animals. I imagine a revolution in veganic agriculture in which small farmers grow a variety of vegetables, fruits, grains, and legumes, all fertilized with vegetable sources.

Gene Baur

#12. I dream of a vegan world - that's where I want everything to go.

Gene Baur

#13. Our daily deeds as ordinary South Africans must produce an actual South African reality that will reinforce humanity's belief in justice, strengthen its confidence in the nobility of the human soul, and sustain all our hopes for a glorious life for all.

Nelson Mandela

#14. Dreams provide a kind of wisdom of the heart, an echoing voice of a profound human sensitivity too often lost to us in the reasonable life of days.

Sheldon B. Kopp

#15. Our food is among the most intimate connections we make with the earth.

Gene Baur

#16. If you put your hand in my pocket, you'll drag back six inches of bloody stump.

Harlan Ellison

#17. Without the light the beauty remains hidden," Gofrid said. "But it is always there. Just like God's love, or a father's, or a mother's. Remember that, Alienor. You are loved, whether you see it or not.

Elizabeth Chadwick

#18. Men are not inspired to protect women who are naked, but instead to conquer and violate them; they want to protect those who are clothed.

Nancy Leigh DeMoss

#19. The seed of the gift may come, but a seedling that isn't nourished dies quickly.

Mary E. Pearson

#20. You can be very successful but still struggling financially, and it looked like I'd have to take a year or two off and find whatever menial labouring work you can get as a middle-aged, unskilled bald man.

Richard Flanagan

#21. Factory farming is the attitude that commodifies sentient life.

Gene Baur

#22. When I meet girls, I pray that they don't know who I am. But I know that's limiting myself quite a lot.

Douglas Booth

#23. As an actor you make choices that are either right or wrong, and you find the ones that are right for you. As an understudy, the choices have been made, so you have to make those choices right. Going into the role, you can't really question it.

James Lecesne

#24. No matter how secret a particular satellite was, it had to obey the same laws of physics as the rest of the solar system.

Trevor Paglen