#rue

With the end of the cold war, all the 'isms' of the 20th century - Fascism, Nazism, Communism and the evil of apartheid-ism - have failed. Except one. Only democracy has shown itself true the help of all mankind. ↗

— Jack Kemp

#century #cold #cold war #communism #democracy

In fact, if one person is unkind to an animal it is considered to be cruelty, but where a lot of people are unkind to animals, especially in the name of commerce, the cruelty is condoned and, once large sums of money are at stake, will be defended to the last by otherwise intelligent people. ↗

— Ruth Harrison

#food-for-thought #vegan #food

The remedy for speech that is false is speech that is true. This is the ordinary course in a free society. The response to the unreasoned is the rational; to the uninformed, the enlightened; to the straight-out lie, the simple truth. ↗

— Anthony Kennedy

#enlightened #false #free #free society #lie

It shouldn't be the consumer's responsibility to figure out what's cruel and what's kind, what's environmentally destructive and what's sustainable. Cruel and destructive food products should be illegal. We don't need the option of buying children's toys made with lead paint, or aerosols with chlorofluorocarbons, or medicines with unlabeled side effects. And we don't need the option of buying factory-farmed animals. ↗

— Jonathan Safran Foer

#animal-rights #capitalism #ecology #sustainability #vegan

It's very disappointing... Anything that harms the integrity of the game is terrible. We always thought we were immune to drugs in baseball, but we know that's not true anymore. ↗

— Harmon Killebrew

#anymore #anything #baseball #disappointing #game

...some heroes are born. Some are made. And some are bribed with promises of food and sex. ↗

— Nicole Peeler

#food

It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important. ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

#cannot #him #i #i think #important

In the lead up to the Iraq war and its later conduct, I saw at a minimum, true dereliction, negligence and irresponsibility, at worse, lying, incompetence and corruption. ↗

— Anthony Zinni

#corruption #i #incompetence #iraq #iraq war

It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means. ↗

— Charles Kingsley

#be true #cowardly #friends #great #hearted

London has always been a haven for victims of cruelty, and been improved by them. Yet I can see it changing now. Outsiders are demonised, there are little bits of legislation, people are scared. ↗

— Emma Thompson

#been #bits #changing #cruelty #haven