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vegetarianism perfection vivisection
Vegetarianism is a link to perfection and peace. River Phoenix
vegetarianism flesh becoming
When we eat factory-farmed meat we live, literally, on tortured flesh. Increasingly, that tortured flesh is becoming our own. Jonathan Safran Foer
vegetarianism land awful
I know vegetarians don't like to hear this, but God made an awful lot of land that's good for nothing but grazing. Molly Ivins
vegetarianism meat-eating victory
Hindus and Westerners alike see in the meat-eating taboos of India a triumph of morals over appetite. This is a dangerous misrepresentation of cultural processes. Hindu vegetarianism was a victory not of spirit over matter but of reproductive over productive forces. Marvin Harris
vegetarianism humanitarianism
vegetarianism is the taproot of humanitarianism. Leo Tolstoy
vegetarianism enlightenment transition
Eating meat is a leftover of the greatest brutality [killing]; the transition to vegetarianism is the first and most natural consequence of enlightenment.
vegetarianism perfection humanity
Vegetarianism serves as the criterion by which we know that the pursuit of moral perfection on the part of humanity is genuine and sincere.
vegetarianism wickedness body
Alas, what wickedness to swallow flesh into our own flesh, to fatten our greedy bodies by cramming in other bodies, to have one living creature fed by the death of another! Pythagoras
vegetarianism sushi cows
I was in a sushi bar and it dawned on me - how could I discriminate between a cow and a fish? Carre Otis
enlightenment church weapons
The writers of the French enlightenment had deliberately used blasphemy as a weapon, refusing to accept the power of the Church to set limiting points on thought. Salman Rushdie
enlightenment pay elegance
Elegance is a small price to pay for enlightenment, and I was glad to pay it. Ursula K. Le Guin
enlightenment needs earth
We need enlightenment, not just individually but collectively, to save the planet. Nhat Hanh
enlightenment blind reason
They [zealots] would have everybody be as blind as themselves: to them, to be clear-sighted is libertinism. Moliere
enlightenment substitutes thinker
Clearly, Enlightenment thinkers were seeking a God substitute. Nancy Pearcey
enlightenment awareness awakened
Enlightenment is awakened awareness. Mark Victor Hansen
enlightenment bricks
Enlightenment! When it comes, it comes like a brick to the head, doesn't it? Scott Lynch
enlightenment remedy
Enlightenment is not a complete remedy. Shunryu Suzuki
enlightenment
You can't make a date with enlightenment.
transition
I'm going to make my transition to weatherman soon, Lewis Black
transition captains easy
Well, my transition into being a captain was easy. Mark Messier
transition speak secrecy
Secrecy is thus, so to speak, a transition stadium between being and not-being. Georg Simmel
transition instruments
Similarly you can make a transition from one set of instruments to another imperceptibly. Gavin Bryars
transition
It's a little gut-wrenching for me for us to have to make this decision, but at least we were able to transition into something new. Doug Freeman
transition bells alarms
It doesn't set off any alarm bells. As is typical with T. Rowe, no transition comes about abruptly; they tend to be planned pretty well. Bill Vaughan
transition transgender rejected
When I realised I was transgender I was so afraid of what my transition would do to everyone else in my life and how they would react to it and would I be rejected? Chaz Bono
transition rebel chaos
It seems that the rebels found the chaos of transition more difficult to accept than the tyranny they had known before. They joyfully welcomed back authority-even oppressive authority-for it was less painful for them than uncertainty. Brandon Sanderson
transition journalism
It's perfectly possible for somebody to make the transition from politics to journalism. Brit Hume