"It is difficult to see ourselves as we……" — Jon Katz
"It is difficult to see ourselves as we are. Sometimes we are fortunate enough to have good friends, lovers or others who will do us the good service of telling us the truth about ourselves. When we don't, we can so easily delude ourselves, lose a sense of truth about ourselves, and our conscience loses power and purpose. Mostly, we tell ourselves what we would like to hear. We lose our way."
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20 Quotes by Jon Katz
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Dogs are born knowing exactly what they want to do: eat, scratch, roll in disgusting stuff, sniff and squabble with…
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If you're going to love animals and have a life with them, the odds are you're going to lose them.…
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Friends are part of the glue that holds life and faith together. Powerful stuff.
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Americans have an extraordinary love-hate relationship with the rich culture they've created. They buy, watch and read it even as…
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I think if I've learned anything about friendship, it's to hang in, stay connected, fight for them, and let them…
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We are human, and we suffer, and unlike the animals on the farm, we are self-aware, and we know that…
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The immature conscience is not its own master. It simply parrots the decisions of others. It does not make judgments…
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It is possible to take something beautiful and lasting out of the heart-wrenching experience of seeing the animal you love…
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My goats are not contemplative, accepting, or introspective. They are the Greek chorus of my farm, sometimes of my life.…
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When you write about animals, of course, you are really writing about the people who love and live with them.…
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When I wrote about media and technology, I had a lot of lonely, even intimate book talks. Since writing about…
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Dogs and other animals - goats, donkeys, cows, a grumpy rooster - continue to change my writing life.
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If a superior give any order to one who is under him which is against that man's conscience, although he…
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Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully.
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So long as there are earnest believers in the world, they will always wish to punish opinions, even if their…
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Modesty is the conscience of the body.
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Conscience is our unerring judge until we finally stifle it.
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Deep down, the US, with its space, its technological refinement, its bluff good conscience, even in those spaces which it…
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Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to…
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Forgetfulness - a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.
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Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not. The church is going to have to become…
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In my view, the only thing worse than a rock star is a rock star with a conscience.
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