We burned with love for ourselves, all of us, starters of the fire we suffered- our love was the affliction for which only our love was the cure.
Jonathan Safran FoerRead
We need a better way to talk about eating animals, a way that doesn't ignore, or even just shruggingly accept things like habits, cravings, family and history, but rather incorporates them into the conversation. The more they are allowed in, the more strongly we will want to follow our best instincts.
Interpretation
What this quote means
The quote emphasizes the importance of discussing our relationship with eating animals in a deeper, more comprehensive way.
In this quote, Jonathan Safran Foer argues for a nuanced conversation about the consumption of animals, urging that our discussions should not overlook personal habits, cravings, family traditions, and historical contexts. By integrating these factors into the dialogue, we can better understand our instincts and motivations regarding our dietary choices, encouraging more ethical considerations in how we approach eating animals.
Themes
EatingAnimalsConversationInstinctsHabitsTradition
In practice
Example use cases
During a discussion on sustainable eating practices, this quote can be used to emphasize the deeper factors influencing our dietary choices.
More from Jonathan Safran Foer
All quotes →Memory was supposed to fill the time, but it made time a hole to be filled. Each second was two hundred yards, to be walked, crawled. You couldn't see the next hour, it was so far in the distance. Tomorrow was over the horizon, and would take an entire day to reach.
Jonathan Safran FoerRead
She was not crying Which surprised me very much But I understand now That she had found places For her melancholy That were behind more masks Than only her eyes
Jonathan Safran FoerRead
What do babies dream of? She must be dreaming of the before-life, just as I dream of the afterlife.
Jonathan Safran FoerRead
A few weeks after the worst day, I started writing lots of letters. I don't know why, but it was one of the only things that made my boots lighter.
Jonathan Safran FoerRead
What is being awake if not interpreting our dreams, or dreaming if not interpreting our wake?
Jonathan Safran FoerRead
Similar quotes
...the man who passes the sentence should swing the sword." "...a ruler who hides behind paid executioners soon forgets what death is.
George R. R. MartinRead
There's something vile (and all the more vile because ridiculous) in the tendency of feeble men to make universal tragedies out of the sad comedies of their private woes.
Fernando PessoaRead
Brutes by their natural instinct have produced many discoveries, whereas men by discussion and the conclusions of reason have given birth to few or none.
Francis BaconRead
Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.
Honore De BalzacRead
After a cup of tea (two spoonsful for each cup, and don't let it stand more than three minutes,) it says to the brain, "Now, rise, and show your strength. Be eloquent, and deep, and tender; see, with a clear eye, into Nature and into life; spread your white wings of quivering thought, and soar, a god-like spirit, over the whirling world beneath you, up through long lanes of flaming stars to the gates of eternity!
Jerome K. JeromeRead
Memories are what you no longer want to remember.
Joan DidionRead