"The immature conscience is not its own master.……" — Jon Katz
"The immature conscience is not its own master. It simply parrots the decisions of others. It does not make judgments of its own; it merely conforms to the judgments of others. That is not real freedom, and it makes true love impossible, for if we are to love truly and freely, we must be able to give something that is truly our own to another. If our heart does not belong to us, asks Merton, how can we give it to another?"
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20 Quotes by Jon Katz
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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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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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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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