Quote by Michael Pollan

“You have just dined,” Ralph Waldo Emerson once wrote, “and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is…

— Michael Pollan

“Never lose time in sending the scapegoat to the slaughterhouse.”

— Ali Sheikh

“A certain ruthlessness and a sense of alienation from society is as essential to creative writing as it is to armed robbery.”

— Nelson Algren

“WE SHOULD BE DIRECTED BY REASON, OFTEN AS NOT WE ARE THE SLAVES OF APPETITE. AND THERE IS NO APPETITE SO HARD TO APPEASE…

— Mark T. Barnes

“Slowly I discovered that writing was my way of coping with chaos and my cry of freedom, my homage to beauty. Because stories have…

— Vittorio Vandelli

“Though in the trade of war I have slain men, Yet do I hold it very stuff o' the conscience To do no contrived…

— William Shakespeare

“My refusing to eat flesh occasioned an inconveniency, and I was frequently chided for my singularity, but, with this lighter repast, I made the…

— Benjamin Franklin

“How could a decent person ever rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men”

— Laozi

“A moment before I had been safe of all men's respect, wealthy, beloved - the cloth laying for me in the dining room at…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“You shut out from your society the gentle and the good. You laugh at the simple and the pure. Living, as you all do,…

— Oscar Wilde

“You disintegrated into the recriminations, the headlines, the pictures. You scattered yourself into proofs, warnings, suspicions, arrests. You rode out into the dark outrage…

— Jonathan Lee

“...A reminder of the human acts of which we are all capable, the brutal and the tender, the base and the sublime.”

— Human Acts Han Kang