Nine out of ten significant people have to do with money or war! — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“Nobody likes war not even those who survive it, not even the winners.” — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Only now do I understand the war against boredom, the lost cause of empty hours, of empty days and nights. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“There are many premium writers, yes? Tolstoy, yes? He wrote War , and also Peace , which are both premium books.” — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“We go on killing each other to no purpose! It is war waged by humanity against humanity, and it will only end… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“Human beings are the only animal that blushes, laughs, has religion, wages war, and kisses with lips. So in a way, the… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Humans are the only animal that blushes, laughs, has religion, wages war, and kisses with lips. So in a way, the more… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“Could we kiss for a little bit? ... Humans are the only animal that blushes, laughs, has religion, wages war, and kisses… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“That is what death is like. It doesn't matter what uniforms the soldiers are wearing. It doesn't matter how good the weapons… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“If we are not given the option to live without violence, we are given the choice to center our meals around harvest… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“She died in my arms, saying, "I don't want to die." That is what death is like. It doesn't matter what uniforms… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
If we are not given the option to live without violence, we are given the choice to center our meals around harvest… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“The arm was the arm, and it was the arm - not her husband, or even herself - that she thought about… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
When I heard your organization was recording testimonies, I knew I had to come. She died in my arms, saying 'I don't… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“He asked what was wrong. "It's just that why would you have one for him and not one for my dad?" "What… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“What about little microphones? What if everyone swallowed them, and they played the sounds of our hearts through little speakers, which could… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“They exchanged notes, like children. My grandfather made his out of newspaper clippings and dropped them in her woven baskets, into which… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“I came to feel a certain kind of shame at the aquarium […] [T]here was a shame in being human: the shame… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“Grandfather interrogates me about you every day. He desires to know if you forgive him for the things he told you about… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
This brings me back to the image of Kafka standing before a fish in the Berlin aquarium, a fish on which his gaze fell… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
I try not to remember the life that I didn’t want to lose but lost and have to remember — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
He removed several pages of death certificates, which were picked up by another breeze and sent into the trees. Some would fall with the… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
I would have done anything for him. Maybe that was my sickness. We made love in nothing places and turned the lights off. It… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“One day I wandered away from her and hid. I liked the way it felt to have someone look for me, to hear my… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“It was one of the best days of my life, a day during which I lived my life and didn't think about it at… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“The appearance was misleading- human dreams; rubbish heaps abundant yet ephemeral sudden and splendid, only to wilt and perish” — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“the entirety of human society and moral progress represents an explicit transcendence of what’s “natural.” — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“Food is not so much a symbol of freedom as the first requirement of freedom. We eat foods that are native to America on… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“Rationally, factory farming is so obviously wrong, in so many ways. In all of my reading and conversations, I’ve yet to find a credible… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image