“If we desire to increase wealth in the world, we should not focus on the alleviation of poverty. To focus on poverty increases poverty. To focus on wealth increases wealth.”
Source: The Wealth Reference Guide: An American Classic
“He’d taken all the gangs and squabbling groups and made them see that a small slice of the cake on a regular basis was better by far than a bigger slice with a dagger in it. He’d made them see that it was better to take a small slice but enlarge the cake.”
Source: Feet Of Clay
“The physique of a Messiah. But too clever to believe in God or be convinced of his own mission. And too sensitive, even if he were convinced, to carry it out. His muscles would like to act and his feelings would like to believe; but his nerve-endings and his cleverness won't allow it.”
“Change in policy without a change in the mindset of the citizens, in time brings civil war down on a nation.”
Source: Şehit Sevda Society: Even in Death I Shall Live
“Movements for animal rights are not irrational denials of human uniqueness; they are a clear-sighted recognition of connection across the discredited breach of nature and culture. Biology and evolutionary theory over the last two centuries have simultaneously produced modern organisms as objects of knowledge and reduced the line between humans and animals to a faint trace re-etched in ideological struggle or professional disputes between life and social science. Within this framework, teaching modern Christian creationism should be fought as a form of child abuse.”
Source: Manifesto cyborg. Donne, tecnologie e biopolitiche del corpo
“Thanks to government subsidies, a diet rich in animal products is affordable even though it destroys the earth”
Source: Eating Earth: Environmental Ethics and Dietary Choice
“There is no other industry as cruel and oppressive as factory farming. With regard to numbers affected, extent and length of suffering, and numbers of premature deaths, no other industry can even approach factory farming. Billions of individuals are exploited from genetically engineered birth, through excruciating confinement, to conveyor belt dismemberment. Consequently, there is no industry more appropriate for social justice activists to boycott.”
Source: Speaking Up for Animals: An Anthology of Women's Voices
“Worldwide, animal agriculture emits more carbon dioxide than any other single source.”
Source: Eating Earth: Environmental Ethics and Dietary Choice
“Because feeding grains to farmed animals is wasteful, only 37% of current croplands are needed if we shift to a vegan diet”
Source: Eating Earth: Environmental Ethics and Dietary Choice
“The U.S. can retire more than 60% of cultivated lands if people choose a plant-based diet, and we would use much less water, pesticides, fossil fuels, and chemical fertilizers.”
Source: Eating Earth: Environmental Ethics and Dietary Choice