When a human being kills an animal for food, he is neglecting his own hunger for justice.
Isaac Bashevis SingerRead
To be a vegetarian is to disagree - to disagree with the course of things today... starvation, cruelty - we must make a statement against these things. Vegetarianism is my statement. And I think it's a strong one.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Being a vegetarian is a conscious choice that challenges societal norms of cruelty and starvation.
This quote by Isaac Bashevis Singer suggests that choosing vegetarianism is not merely a diet, but a moral and philosophical stance against societal issues such as cruelty towards animals and hunger in the world. It emphasizes that such a choice serves as a powerful statement reflecting an individual's values and beliefs about compassion and ethical consumption.
Themes
VegetarianismCrueltyEthical EatingCompassionMorals
In practice
Example use cases
In a speech advocating for animal rights, one might use this quote to emphasize the moral imperative behind vegetarianism.
More from Isaac Bashevis Singer
All quotes βThere will be no justice as long as man will stand with a knife or with a gun and destroy those who are weaker than he is.
Isaac Bashevis SingerRead
Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.
Isaac Bashevis SingerRead
As long as people will shed the blood of innocent creatures there can be no peace, no liberty, no harmony between people. Slaughter and justice cannot dwell together.
Isaac Bashevis SingerRead
Sometimes love is stronger than a man's convictions.
Isaac Bashevis SingerRead
I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens.
Isaac Bashevis SingerRead
Similar quotes
Only thought which does violence to itself is hard enough to shatter myth.
Theodor AdornoRead
Romans, countrymen, and lovers, hear me for my cause, and be silent, that you may hear.
William ShakespeareRead
We can't live in a state of perpetual doubt, so we make up the best story possible and we live as if the story were true.
Daniel KahnemanRead
When grown people speak of the innocence of children, they dont really know what they mean. Pressed, they will go a step further and say, Well, ignorance then. The child is neither. There is no crime which a boy of eleven had not envisaged long ago. His only innocence is, he may not be old enough to desire the fruits of it...his ignorance is, he does not know how to commit it...
William FaulknerRead
Each of us has a natural right, from God, to defend his person, his liberty, and his property.
Frederic BastiatRead
To offer no resistance to life is to be in a state of grace, ease, and lightness. This state is then no longer dependent upon things being in a certain way, good or bad. It seems almost paradoxical, yet when your inner dependency on form is gone, the general conditions of your life, the outer forms, tend to improve greatly.
Eckhart TolleRead