#eat

We eat animals because they taste good. And if that's O.K., what's wrong with wearing fur? We need as a society to think seriously about our institutionalized animal use. ↗

— Gary L. Francione

#animal #because #eat #fur #good

Whenever I prepare for a journey I prepare as though for death. Should I never return, all is in order. ↗

— Katherine Mansfield

#i #journey #never #order #prepare

My chest tightens to the point I fear my heart will suffocate from the pressure of it. Society's standards are the total opposite from how I was raised. The boy who I thought to be so strikingly handsome has less than a year of his life to live, my new friend only a few more months beyond that. Yet they are living these uneventful lives in which they don't think there is a reason for anything. Will I ever see my mother again, or is this how I will be forced to live the rest of my life, as well? ↗

— Jen Naumann

#dystopian #dystopian-fiction #life-and-death #death

Being a wife and a mother is very gratifying, but it's not a creative expression and that's something I need to be happy. ↗

— Genie Francis

#being #creative #creative expression #expression #gratifying

Life defined only as the opposite of death is not life. ↗

— Mahmoud Darwish

#poetry #death

Most people return small favors, acknowledge medium ones and repay greater ones - with ingratitude. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#favors #greater #ingratitude #medium #most

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#death #i #look #morning #necessary

There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#great man #man #never #same #time

Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#day #every #every day #felicity #fortune

In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#eats #general #improvement #mankind #much