"The animals are those things that God likes……" — Jonathan Safran Foer

"The animals are those things that God likes but doesn't love."

— Jonathan Safran Foer

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526 Quotes by Jonathan Safran Foer

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We eat as sons and daughters, as families, as communities, as generations, as nations, and increasingly as a globe. We…
August has passed, and yet summer continues by force to grow days. They sprout secretly between the chapters of the…
SADNESSES OF THE INTELLECT: Sadness of being misunderstood [sic]; Humor sadness; Sadness of love wit[hou]t release; Sadne[ss of be]ing smart;…
The Torah is the foundational text for Jewish law, but the Haggadah is our book of living memory. We are…
Murdering someone would surely prove that you are capable of killing, but it wouldn't be the most reasonable way to…
Be the instrument playing the sound of your life's passing
I got incredibly heavy boots about how relatively insignificant life is, and how, compared to the universe and compared to…
Animal agriculture makes a 40% greater contribution to global warming than all transportation in the world combined; it is the…
When we eat factory-farmed meat we live, literally, on tortured flesh. Increasingly, that tortured flesh is becoming our own.
How would you judge an artist who mutilated animals in a gallery because it was visually arresting? How riveting would…
The more you love someone, he came to think, the harder it is to tell them. It surprised him that…
Everyone is always in need of something that another person can give, be it undivided attention, a kind word or…

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At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
Man is by nature a political animal. — Aristotle
To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult. — Isaac Asimov
If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will… — Francis of Assisi
People are not going to care about animal conservation unless they think that animals are worthwhile. — David Attenborough
There are some four million different kinds of animals and plants in the world. Four million different solutions to the… — David Attenborough
Birds are the most popular group in the animal kingdom. We feed them and tame them and think we know… — David Attenborough
The only way to save a rhinoceros is to save the environment in which it lives, because there's a mutual… — David Attenborough
I'm not a propagandist, I'm not a polemicist; my primary interest is just looking at and trying to understand how… — David Attenborough
I'm not an animal lover if that means you think things are nice if you can pat them, but I… — David Attenborough
If you watch animals objectively for any length of time, you're driven to the conclusion that their main aim in… — David Attenborough
Steve Irwin did wonderful conservation work but I was uncomfortable about some of his stunts. Even if animals aren't aware… — David Attenborough

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