{"quotes":[{"text":"Veganism is an act of nonviolent defiance. It is our statement that we reject the notion that animals are things and that we regard sentient nonhumans as moral persons with the fundamental moral right not to be treated as the property or resources of humans.","author":"Gary L. Francione","tags":["abolition","abolitionist","ahimsa","animals","education","exploitation","francione","inspirational","justice","life","nonviolence","nonviolence-jainism","peace-making","peace-movement","peace-on-earth","rights","sentience","slavery","veganism","wisdom"],"id":16314,"author_id":"Gary+L.+Francione"},{"text":"The universe is not for man alone, but is a theater of evolution for all living beings. Live and let live is its guiding principle. 'Ahimsa Paramo Dharmah' - Non-injury is the highest religion.","author":"Virchand Gandhi","tags":["ahimsa","compassion","evolution","inspirational","jainism","live","living-life","motivational","nonviolence","nonviolence-jainism","peace","religion","universe"],"id":19027,"author_id":"Virchand+Gandhi"},{"text":"Veganism is about nonviolence. It is about not engaging in harm to other sentient beings; to oneself; and to the environment upon which all beings depend for life. In my view, the animal rights movement is, at its core, a movement about ending violence to all sentient beings. It is a movement that seeks fundamental justice for all. It is an emerging peace movement that does not stop at the arbitrary line that separates humans from nonhumans.","author":"Gary L. Francione","tags":["abolition","abolitionist","ahimsa","animals","exploitation","inspirational","justice","movement","nonviolence","peace","peace-movement","rights","veganism"],"id":34521,"author_id":"Gary+L.+Francione"},{"text":"Dear men, I’ll make it clear to you. Those who tell you that ‘true love’ is never giving up someone you are in love with are insecure and competitive. Their description on love is based on their needs. Selfish needs. While women who are confident, their spirits fulfilled by themselves know that a 'good bye’ doesn’t mean they never loved you. They realizes that letting you go is what God needs them to do, because both happiness: yours and your lover require taking different journey for spiritual growth. These kind of women show you what 'real love’ is. And you don’t want to catch them still? Win a battle for them? Even after what you have learnt? For God’s sake, these women have endured much. For battles she fight alone, they deserve LOVE.","author":"Ahimsa Murfi","tags":["advice","ahimsa","battle","independent-women","insecure-women","life","love","real-love","real-love","self-love","true-love","women"],"id":40306,"author_id":"Ahimsa+Murfi"},{"text":"We should not be surprised that more and more people feel comfortable about consuming animal products. After all, they are being assured by the “experts” that suffering is being decreased and they can buy “happy” meat, “free-range” eggs, etc.. These products even come with labels approved of by animal organizations. The animal welfare movement is actually encouraging the “compassionate” consumption of animal products.Animal welfare reforms do very little to increase the protection given to animal interests because of the economics involved: animals are property. They are things that have no intrinsic or moral value. This means that welfare standards, whether for animals used as foods, in experiments, or for any other purpose, will be low and linked to the level of welfare needed to exploit the animal in an economically efficient way for the particular purpose. Put simply, we generally protect animal interests only to the extent we get an economic benefit from doing so. The concept of “unnecessary” suffering is understood as that level of suffering that will frustrate the particular use. And that can be a great deal of suffering.Killing Animals and Making Animals Suffer | Animal Rights: The Abolitionist Approach.","author":"Gary L. Francione","tags":["ahimsa","animal-products","animal-use","animals","diet","francione","humane","killing","nonhumans","nonviolence","peace","peace-loving","peaceful","veganism","welfare"],"id":65941,"author_id":"Gary+L.+Francione"},{"text":"I am not well-versed in theory, but in my view, the cow deserves her life. As does the ram. As does the ladybug. As does the elephant. As do the fish, and the dog and the bee; as do other sentient beings. I will always be in favor of veganism as a minimum because I believe that sentient beings have a right not to be used as someone else's property. They ask us to be brave for them, to be clear for them, and I see no other acceptable choice but to advocate veganism. If these statements make me a fundamentalist, then I will sew a scarlet F on my jacket so that all may know I'm fundamentally in favor of nonviolence; may they bury me in it so that all will know where I stood.","author":"Vincent J. Guihan","tags":["ahimsa","animals","ethics","fundamentalism","nonviolence","veganism"],"id":93354,"author_id":"Vincent+J.+Guihan"},{"text":"I reject animal welfare reform and single-issue campaigns because they are not only inconsistent with the claims of justice that we should be making if we really believe that animal exploitation is wrong, but because these approaches cannot work as a practical matter. Animals are property and it costs money to protect their interests; therefore, the level of protection accorded to animal interests will always be low and animals will, under the best of circumstances, still be treated in ways that would constitute torture if applied to humans.By endorsing welfare reforms that supposedly make exploitation more “compassionate” or single-issue campaigns that falsely suggest that there is a coherent moral distinction between meat and dairy or between fur and wool or between steak and foie gras, we betray the principle of justice that says that all sentient beings are equal for purposes of not being used exclusively as human resources. And, on a practical level, we do nothing more than make people feel better about animal exploitation.","author":"Gary L. Francione","tags":["abolition","abolitionist","ahimsa","animals","education","exploitation","francione","inspirational","justice","life","nonviolence","nonviolence-jainism","peace-making","peace-movement","peace-on-earth","rights","sentience","slavery","veganism","wisdom"],"id":142236,"author_id":"Gary+L.+Francione"},{"text":"You cannot live a nonviolent life as long as you are consuming violence. Please consider going vegan.","author":"Gary L. Francione","tags":["abolition","abolitionist","ahimsa","animals","education","exploitation","francione","inspirational","justice","life","nonviolence","nonviolence-jainism","peace-making","peace-movement","peace-on-earth","rights","sentience","slavery","veganism","vulnerable","wisdom"],"id":165557,"author_id":"Gary+L.+Francione"},{"text":"We do not need to eat animals, wear animals, or use animals for entertainment purposes, and our only defense of these uses is our pleasure, amusement, and convenience.","author":"Gary L. Francione","tags":["abolition","abolitionist","ahimsa","animals","education","exploitation","francione","inspirational","justice","life","nonviolence","nonviolence-jainism","peace-making","peace-movement","peace-on-earth","rights","sentience","slavery","veganism","wisdom"],"id":184851,"author_id":"Gary+L.+Francione"},{"text":"Oh baby, love and treasure yourself ❤ As in this life journey all you have is yourself.","author":"Ahimsa Murfi","tags":["ahimsa","ahimsa-padmanaba-murfi","journey","life","love","love","self-love","self-worth"],"id":196457,"author_id":"Ahimsa+Murfi"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":20,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}