"Maybe one day the world will change, that we’ll be in a luxurious position of being able to debate whether or not it’s inherently wrong to eat animals, but the question doesn’t matter right now."
― Jonathan Safran Foer
Topic(s): Change
More From Jonathan Safran Foer
- "Why does watching a dog be a dog fill one with happiness?"
- "Just about every children’s book in my local bookstore has an animal for its hero. But then, only a few feet away in the cookbook section, just about every cookbook includes recipes for cooking animals. Is there a more illuminating illustration of our paradoxical relationship with the nonhuman world?"
- "I usually write away from home, in coffee shops, on trains, on planes, in friends’ houses. I like places where there’s stuff going on that you can lift your eyes, see something interesting, overhear a conversation."
More In Change
- "Why does a woman work ten years to change a man’s habits and then complain that he’s not the man she married?"― Barbra Streisand
- "I like to change characters and then, slowly I believe the audience treat me as, like an actor who can fight. It’s not like an action star."― Jackie Chan
- "No great movement designed to change the world can bear to be laughed at or belittled. Mockery is a rust that corrodes all it touches."― Milan Kundera