Posted by Sam Iles on July 25, 2010
I am including these quotes in my book, but they’re just so great I had to share them with you. They are all from, perhaps the cleverest man of all time, Albert Einstein:
“Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.”
“It is my view that the vegetarian manner of living by its purely physical effect on the human temperament would most beneficially influence the lot of mankind.”
“Vegetarian food leaves a deep impression on our nature. If the whole world adopts vegetarianism, it can change the destiny of mankind.”
“Our task must be to free ourselves— by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.”
Impressive, no?
Posted by Sam Iles on July 20, 2010
Inspired by a friend’s blog post, I thought I would share my favourite quotations.
But, before we start, I must point out that quote is a verb and quotation is a noun. Therefore one would ‘quote a quotation’, and one cannot have a favourite quote. Gandhi does not have any quotes, he only has quotations. Glad we cleared that up.
OK, some of my favourites are:
“You must be the change you wish to see in the world” – Gandhi [I feel this quotation sums up veganism perfectly.]
“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” – Martin Luther King, Jr
“Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.” – Martin Luther King, Jr
“Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.” – Goethe
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.” – Theodore Roosevelt
“The richest man is not he who has the most, but he who needs the least.” – Unknown
And there are so many more, for another time perhaps…