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
How can we speak of right and justice if we take an innocent creature and shed its blood? How can we pray… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
But if we have people who have the power to tell a story, there will always be readers. — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet... [at least… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
Whatever doesn't really happen is dreamed at night. It happens to one if it doesn't happen to another, tomorrow if not today,… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
When we're trying to decide whether a leader is a good leader or a bad one, the question to ask is: 'Is… — 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
No lepidopterist's collection in the entire world...full if iridescent wings, is worth the life of a single butterfly. — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
When a day passes, it is no longer there. What remains of it? Nothing more than a story. If stories weren't told… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
There is no death. How can there be death if everything is part of the Godhead? The soul never dies and the… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
If there would come a voice from God saying, 'I'm against vegetarianism!' I would say, 'Well, I am for it!' This is… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
Man is a disgusting thing. If you beat him he starts to scream, but if it is the other one who 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet. — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
Men want all women to lie down as whores and get up as virgins. — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
No doubt the world is entirely an imaginary world, but it is only once removed from the true world. — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
