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Most Quotes by Jonathan Safran Foer
- Murdering someone would surely prove that you are capable of killing, but it wouldn't be the most reasonable way to understand why you shouldn't do…
- We are breeding creatures incapable of surviving in any place other than the most artificial settings. We have focused the awesome power of modern genetic…
- These little daily choices that we're so used to thinking are irrelevant are the most important thing we do all day long.
- You can see the most beautiful things from the observation deck of the Empire State Building. I read somewhere that people on the street are…
- We need a better way to talk about eating animals. We need a way that brings meat to the center of public discussion in the…
- Just how destructive does a culinary preference have to be before we decide to eat something else? If contributing to the suffering of billions of…
- Almost always when I told someone I was writing a book about "eating animals", they assumed, even without knowing anything about my views, that it…
- Whether we're talking about fish species, pigs, or some other eaten animal, is such suffering the most important thing in the world? Obviously not. But…
- [S]o if the device of the person in the ambulance detected the device of the person he loved the most, or the person who loved…
- We talked about nothing in particular, but it felt like we were talking about the most important things...
- We know, at least, that this decision (ending factory farming) will help prevent deforestation, curb global warming, reduce pollution, save oil reserves, lessen the burden…
- ...people with nothing to declare carry the most.
- Cruelty...prefers abstraction. Some have tried to resolved this gap by hunting or butchering an animal themselves, as if those experiences might somehow legitimize the endeavor…
- However much we obfuscate or ignore it, we know that the factory farm is inhumane in the deepest sense of the word. And we know…
- What kind of world would we create if three times a day we activated our compassion and reason as we sat down to eat, if…
- The best books are the ones that ask the most questions.
- In high school I became a vegetarian more times than I can now remember, most often as an effort to claim some identity in a…
More Most Quotes
- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. — Aristotle
- The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. — Aristotle
- Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved. — Aristotle
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- Most people would rather give than get affection. — Aristotle
- What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue… — Aristotle
- My mother is the coolest, most amazing person I know. — J. J. Abrams
- The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I'm talking about myself very directly. — Paul Auster