Something having been done just about everywhere just about always is no kind of justification for doing it now. Jonathan Safran Foer More Quotes by Jonathan Safran Foer More Quotes From Jonathan Safran Foer There is an overabundance of rational reasons to say no to factory-farmed meat: It is the No. 1 cause of global warming, it systematically forces tens of billions of animals to suffer in ways that would be illegal if they were dogs, it is a decisive factor in the development of swine and avian flus, and so on. Jonathan Safran Foer suffering dog animal Love me, because love doesn't exist, and I have tried everything that does. Jonathan Safran Foer everything-is-illuminated doe I felt suddenly shy. I was not used to shy. I was used to shame. Shyness is when you turn your head away from something you want. Shame is when you turn your head away from something you do not want. Jonathan Safran Foer shame shy want With writing, we have second chances. Jonathan Safran Foer second-chance chance writing It was one of the best days of my life, a day during which I lived my life and didn't think about my life at all. Jonathan Safran Foer thinking Dogs are wonderful, and in many ways unique. But they are remarkably unremarkable in their intellectual and experiential capacities. Pigs are every bit as intelligent and feeling, by any sensible definition of the words. They can't hop into the back of a Volvo, but they can fetch, run and play, be mischievous, and reciprocate affection. So why don't they get to curl up by the fire? Why can't they at least be spared being tossed on the fire? Jonathan Safran Foer intelligent dog running I don't think that there are any limits to how excellent we could make life seem. Jonathan Safran Foer limits life thinking You are the only one who has understood even a whisper of me, and I will tell you that I am the only person who has understood even a whisper of you. Jonathan Safran Foer understood persons And so it was when anyone tried to speak: their minds would become tangled in remembrance. Words became floods of thought with no beginning or end, and would drown the speaker before he could reach the life raft of the point he was trying to make. It was impossible to remember what one meant, what, after all of the words, was intended. Jonathan Safran Foer tangled remembrance mind Of course food has an important cultural use in families, but there are things that have more important cultural uses in families, and broadening the conversation out simply from what's reasonable also allows in other things. Jonathan Safran Foer important Most of the times that I think about my relationship to Judaism, I not only accuse myself of a shallowness, but I feel certain that there's a shallowness there. That's not a bad thing, really. Jonathan Safran Foer shallowness judaism thinking Art can be very political but that can't be the purpose of art, it can't be the driving force. It isn't with any of the books that I love, anyway. Jonathan Safran Foer political book art I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live. Jonathan Safran Foer i-regret regret Do you think I'm wonderful? she asked him one day as they leaned against the trunk of a petrified maple. No, he said. Why? Because so many girls are wonderful. I imagine hundreds of men have called their loves wonderful today, and it's only noon. You couldn't be something that hundreds of others are. Jonathan Safran Foer girl men thinking It's the tragedy of loving, you can't love anything more than something you miss. Jonathan Safran Foer i-hate-you loving-you missing The more exposure people have to the realities of factory farming, the more we will see people rejecting it. It's already happening. Jonathan Safran Foer farming reality people I'm so afraid of losing something I love that I refuse to love anything Jonathan Safran Foer refuse losing Every factory-farmed animal is, as a practice, treated in ways that would be illegal if it were a dog or a cat. Jonathan Safran Foer cat dog animal The mistakes I've made are dead to me. But I can't take back the things I never did. Jonathan Safran Foer regret made mistake The more you love someone, he came to think, the harder it is to tell them. It surprised him that strangers didn't stop each other on the street to say I love you. Jonathan Safran Foer most-romantic love-you thinking
