#arm

But it does make me sad that we've forgotten our names. Out of everything, this seems to be the most tragic. I miss my own and I mourn for everyone else's, because I'd like to love them, but I don't know who they are. ↗

— Isaac Marion

#warm-bodies #love

When nations resort to arms, the human spirit is like a bird that cannot stand to hear its own song. ↗

— Phoenix Desmond

#love #nature #peace #spiritual #spirituality

Fathers, provoke not your children to wrath. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#karma #parenthood #wrath #love

She is as calm as the wind in the summer, and my favorite chapter, this is love I have captured and it is as strong as the Earth's Structure. My dear, i'm your's from now till forever. ↗

— Steve. N. Gomes

#heartwarming #love #poem #love

The clear suggestion is that there ought not to be civilian control of the military. What have callow noncombatants giving brisk orders to grizzled soldiers? How could Lincoln have fired the slavery-loving Gen. George B. McClellan, or Truman dismissed the glorious Douglas MacArthur? ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#chicken-hawks #love

The ten billion animals that are killed every year for meat and the virulent consequences of contemporary animal agricultural practices remain conspicuously absent from public discourse. How often have you seen media exposés on the violent treatment of farm animals and the corrupt practices of carnistic industry? Compare this with the amount of coverage afforded fluctuating gas prices or Hollywood fashion blunders. Most of us are more outraged over having to pay five cents more for a gallon of gas than over the fact that billions of animals, millions of humans, and the entire ecosystem are systematically exploited by an industry that profits from such gratuitous violence. And most of us know more about what the stars wore to the Oscars than we do about the animals we eat. ↗

— Melanie Joy

#carnism #exploitation #factory-farms #meat #media

I am afraid that it will all be ruined. It is like stepping out into the darkness when one has a world of light and warmth behind one. ↗

— Mary Balogh

#love #warmth #love

As with any violent ideology, the populace must be shielded from direct exposure to the victims of the system, lest they begin questioning the system or their participation in it. This truth speaks for itself: why else would the meat industry go to such lengths to keep its practices invisible? ↗

— Melanie Joy

#factory-farming #meat #love

So, we're all in agreement," Armani declared brightly into the tense atmosphere. "Good, let's get this over with. Shut up Rafael, don't say it, you would do the same for me." "That's different!" he snapped. "You shouldn't." She couldn't comprehend his reasoning. "Why?" Rafael blinked a few times. "Because you don't love me the way I love you! ↗

— Suzan Battah

#rafael #love

I like the word 'affection' because it signifies something habitual, and we are soon to meet to try whether we have mind enough to keep our hearts warm. ↗

— Michael Kelahan

#hearts #love #warmth #love