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Jonathan Safran Foer has 526 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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We eat as sons and daughters, as families, as communities, as generations, as nations, and increasingly as a globe. We can't stop…
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August has passed, and yet summer continues by force to grow days. They sprout secretly between the chapters of the year, covertly…
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SADNESSES OF THE INTELLECT: Sadness of being misunderstood [sic]; Humor sadness; Sadness of love wit[hou]t release; Sadne[ss of be]ing smart; Sadness of…
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The Torah is the foundational text for Jewish law, but the Haggadah is our book of living memory. We are not merely…
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Murdering someone would surely prove that you are capable of killing, but it wouldn't be the most reasonable way to understand why…
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Be the instrument playing the sound of your life's passing
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I got incredibly heavy boots about how relatively insignificant life is, and how, compared to the universe and compared to time, it…
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Animal agriculture makes a 40% greater contribution to global warming than all transportation in the world combined; it is the number one…
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When we eat factory-farmed meat we live, literally, on tortured flesh. Increasingly, that tortured flesh is becoming our own.
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How would you judge an artist who mutilated animals in a gallery because it was visually arresting? How riveting would the sound…
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The more you love someone, he came to think, the harder it is to tell them. It surprised him that strangers didn't…
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Everyone is always in need of something that another person can give, be it undivided attention, a kind word or deep empathy.…
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It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator…
— Aristotle
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You shall always find what you created in your mind, for instance, a benevolent God or an evil Devil. Between them are…
— Hans Bender
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Love can be unselfish, in the sense of being benevolent and generous, without being selfless.
— Mortimer Adler
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I believe in benevolent dictatorship provided I am the dictator.
— Richard Branson
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I hate organized religion. I think you have to love thy neighbor as thyself. I think you have to pick your own…
— Julia Child
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Under the Providence of God, our means of education are the grand machinery by which the 'raw material' of human nature can…
— Horace Mann
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Public charities and benevolent associations for the gratuitous relief of every species of distress, are peculiar to Christianity; no other system of…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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For centuries the Bible's emphasis on compassion and love for our neighbor has inspired institutional and governmental expressions of benevolent outreach such…
— Ronald Reagan
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Sometimes, we don't get what we want. . . But this is a benevolent universe. And once in a while, we do.
— Melody Beattie
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The men and woman who make the best boon companions seem to have given up hope of doing something else...some defect of…
— John Jay Chapman
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Absolute power corrupts even when exercised for humane purposes. The benevolent despot who sees himself as a shepherd of the people still…
— Eric Hoffer
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I wish to become rich, so that I can instruct the people and glorify honest poverty a little, like those kind hearted,…
— Mark Twain
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