Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge. Isaac Bashevis Singer More Quotes by Isaac Bashevis Singer More Quotes From Isaac Bashevis Singer For those who are willing to make an effort, great miracles and wonderful treasures are in store. Isaac Bashevis Singer positivityeffortmiracle What do they know-all these scholars, all these philosophers, all the leaders of the world - about such as you? They have convinced themselves that man, the worst transgressor of all the species, is the crown of creation. All other creatures were created merely to provide him with food, pelts, to be tormented, exterminated. In relation to them, all people are Nazis; for the animals it is an eternal Treblinka. Isaac Bashevis Singer animalmenpeople Two important things are to have a genuine interest in people and to be kind to them. Kindness, I've discovered, is everything. Isaac Bashevis Singer kindnessinspirationaltwo In their behavior toward creatures, all men are Nazis. Human beings see oppression vividly when they're the victims. Otherwise they victimize blindly and without a thought. Isaac Bashevis Singer animal-rightsvegetarianismmen As long as people will shed the blood of innocent creatures there can be no peace, no liberty, no harmony between people. Slaughter and justice cannot dwell together. Isaac Bashevis Singer vegetarianismcompassionanimal But if we have people who have the power to tell a story, there will always be readers. Isaac Bashevis Singer readerstoriespeople It is a general rule that when the grain of truth cannot be found, men will swallow great helpings of falsehood. Isaac Bashevis Singer helpingmenlying Sometimes love is stronger than a man's convictions. Isaac Bashevis Singer lovemenlife The Jewish people have been in exile for 2,000 years; they have lived in hundreds of countries, spoken hundreds of languages and still they kept their old language, Hebrew. They kept their Aramaic, later their Yiddish; they kept their books; they kept their faith. Isaac Bashevis Singer countrybookyears People often say that humans have always eaten animals, as if this is a justification for continuing the practice. According to this logic, we should not try to prevent people from murdering other people, since this has also been done since the earliest of times. Isaac Bashevis Singer vegetarianismpracticeanimal Whenever I'm in trouble, I pray. And because I'm in trouble all of the time, I pray almost constantly. Isaac Bashevis Singer troubleprayingprayer Man prays for mercy, but is unwilling to extend it to others. Why then should man expect mercy from God? It is Isaac Bashevis Singer vegetarianismgivingmen We must believe in free will - we have no choice. Isaac Bashevis Singer choicesliteraturebelieve As often as Herman had witnessed the slaughter of animals and fish, he always had the same thought: in their behavior toward creatures, all men were Nazis. The smugness with which man could do with other species as he pleased exemplified the most extreme racist theories, the principle that might is right. Isaac Bashevis Singer principlesanimalmen Life is God's novel. Let him write it. Isaac Bashevis Singer literaturewritinglife Night is a time of rigor, but also of mercy. There are truths which one can see only when it’s dark Isaac Bashevis Singer mercydarknight I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens. Isaac Bashevis Singer cookingvegetarianismfood There are 500 reasons I write for children.... Children read books, not reviews. They don't give a hoot about the critics.... They don't read to free themselves of guilt, to quench their thirst for rebellion, or to get rid of alienation. They still believe in God, the family, angels, devils, witches, goblins, logic, clarity, punctuation, and other such obsolete stuff.... They don't expect their beloved writer to redeem humanity. Young as they are, they know that it is not in his power. Only the adults have such childish illusions. Isaac Bashevis Singer believebookchildren Men want all women to lie down as whores and get up as virgins. Isaac Bashevis Singer wantmenlying There is a permanent amnesia planted in us, which just as we keep forgetting our dreams, we sometimes keep on forgetting our reality. Isaac Bashevis Singer dreamsometimesreality
