No matter how much you know a human being, you don't know him enough. — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
The analysis of character is the highest human entertainment. — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
The sexual organs are the most sensitive organs of the human being. They are not diplomats. They tell the truth. — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
When a human being kills an animal for food, he is neglecting his own hunger for justice. — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
It seems that the analysis of character is the highest human entertainment. And literature does it, unlike gossip, without mentioning names. — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
In their behavior toward creatures, all men are Nazis. Human beings see oppression vividly when they're the victims. Otherwise they victimize blindly… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
One can find in the Yiddish tongue and in the Yiddish spirit expressions of pious joy, lust for life, longing for the… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
God gave us so many emotions, and so many strong ones. Every human being, even if he is an idiot, is a… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
When a human kills an animal for food, he is neglecting his own hunger for justice. Man prays for mercy, but is… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
I was brought up to believe in free will. Although I came to doubt all revelation, I can never accept the idea… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
The truth is that what the great religions preached, the Yiddish-speaking people of the ghettos practiced day in and day out. They… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
People often say that humans have always eaten animals, as if this is a justification for continuing the practice. According to this… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
When a human kills an animal for food, he is neglecting his own hunger for justice. Man prays for mercy, but is… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
Every body resisted (the slaughterer) in its own fashion, tried to escape and seemed to argue with the Creator to its last breath. — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share
People often say that humans have always eaten animals, as if this is a justification for continuing the practice. According to this logic, we… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share
As long as people will shed the blood of innocent creatures there can be no peace, no liberty, no harmony between people. Slaughter and… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share
There must be a way for man to attain all possible pleasures, all the powers and knowledge that nature can grant him, and still… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share
“The rabbi thought he saw an expression of perplexity in the golem's eyes. It seemed to the rabbi that his eyes were asking, Who… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet. — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share
A story to me means a plot where there is some surprise... Because this is how life is full of surprises. — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share
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 Copy Share
No doubt the world is entirely an imaginary world, but it is only once removed from the true world. — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share
It is a general rule that when the grain of truth cannot be found, men will swallow great helpings of falsehood. — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share
As often as Herman had witnessed the slaughter of animals and fish, he always had the same thought: in their behaviour towards creatures, all… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share
