Freedom comes from seeing the ignorance of your critics and discovering the emptiness of their virtue.
Set goals that are achievable. Bring about meaningful change one step at a time. Raising awareness is not enough.
Animal liberation is also human liberation. Animal liberationists care about the quality of life for all. We recognize our kinship with all feeling beings. We identify with the powerless and the vulnerable, the victims, all those dominated, oppressed and exploited. And it is the non-human animals whose suffering is the most intense, widespread, expanding, systematic and socially sanctioned of all.
I began to wonder why we cuddle some animals and put a fork in others.
My dream is that people will come to view eating an animal as cannibalism.
Their suffering is intense, widespread, expanding, systematic and socially sanctioned. And the victims are unable to organize in defence of their own interests.
A categorization implies a hierarchical way of seeing things. Life is really relational, not hierarchical. Hierarchical is a human way of looking at things. Relational is much more the way things are. Everything is connected.
You have no idea, especially in green screen, what movie you're doing. You really don't. And then, you see the movie and you're like, "Oh, my god, I'm on a cliff right now! I'm having sex right now! I thought I was dancing. "
People can very quickly have a very poor self-image. It doesn't take much.
What is love? Love to me is god.