When a human being kills an animal for food, he is neglecting his own hunger for justice.
Isaac Bashevis SingerRead
Sometimes love is stronger than a man's convictions.
Interpretation
Love can override a person's deeply held beliefs and ideals.
This quote suggests that love has the profound ability to transcend and challenge a person's convictions, beliefs, or values. It highlights the power of love, emphasizing its potential to alter one's priorities and actions, often leading individuals to make choices that defy their previously held convictions in pursuit of emotional connection and understanding.
In practice
In a discussion about the complexities of relationships, this quote can illustrate how love can reshape priorities.
When a human being kills an animal for food, he is neglecting his own hunger for justice.
There will be no justice as long as man will stand with a knife or with a gun and destroy those who are weaker than he is.
Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.
As long as people will shed the blood of innocent creatures there can be no peace, no liberty, no harmony between people. Slaughter and justice cannot dwell together.
I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens.
Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression. The chasm is never completely bridged. We all have the conviction, perhaps illusory, that we have much more to say than appears on the paper.
A heart can no more be forced to love than a stomach can be forced to digest food by persuasion.
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks within his bending sickle's compass come.
And the boy loved the tree.......very much. And the tree was happy.
This is what love does: It makes you want to rewrite the world. It makes you want to choose the characters, build the scenery, guide the plot. The person you love sits across from you, and you want to do everything in your power to make it possible, endlessly possible. And when itβs just the two of you, alone in a room, you can pretend that this is how it is, this is how it will be.
I have an everyday religion that works for me. Love yourself first, and everything else falls into line.
A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
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