How could this world be so unlike the world that I believed I was living in? I can't describe it. Do I… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“Whether we're talking about fish species, pigs, or some other eaten animal, is such suffering the most important thing in the world?… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
In my family, Father is the world champion at ending conversations. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
What the meat industry figured out is that you don't need healthy animals to make a profit. Sick animals are more profitable...… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
There are more obese people in the world than starving people. As China and India start to develop our eating habits -… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“So she had to satisfy herself with the idea of love – loving the loving of things whose existence she didn’t care… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“I'd been someone else in a different world I'd've done something different, but I was myself, and the world was the world,… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
The kind of funny irony is that a lot of people talk about ethical meat eating as if it's a way to… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Farmers since the beginning of time have been feeding the world very successfully without systematically abusing animals or destroying the environment. But… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
We laughed and laughed, together and separately, out loud and silently, we were determined to ignore whatever needed to be ignored, to… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Maybe one day the world will change, that we'll be in a luxurious position of being able to debate whether or not… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
I took the world into me, rearranged it, and sent it back out as a question: "Do you like me? — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
The world is a big place," he said, "but so is the inside of an apartment! — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
We live in a world made up more of story than stuff. We are creatures of memory more than reminders, of love… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Life is precious, so I ought to spend my days, you know, making sandwiches for homeless people and tending to the elderly… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Few people sufficiently appreciate the colossal task of feeding a world of billions of omnivores who demand meat with their potatoes. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
What the world does not need is a Haggadah that pats itself on the back. It needs a Haggadah that gets out… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
...the meaning of my thoughts started to float away from me, like leaves that fall from a tree into a river, I… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
No matter how much I feel, I’m not going to let it out. If I have to cry, I’m gonna cry on… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Just about every children's book in my local bookstore has an animal for its hero. But then, only a few feet away… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Just to be a functioning adult in the world, we develop all of these layers of protection. When we see homeless people,… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
People around the world were moving from one place to another. No one was staying. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
The disgraced Usurer Yankel D took the baby girl home that evening... He made a bed of crumpled newspaper in a deep… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
I used to think that humor was the only way to appreciate how wonderful and terrible the world is, to celebrate how… — 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
