John Robbins Quotes

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• Animals do not ‘give’ their life to us, as the sugar-coated lie would have it. No, we take their lives. They struggle and fight to the last breath, just as we would do if we were in their place.

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  Lying, Struggle, Fighting

  John Robbins (2011). “Diet for a New America: How Your Food Choices Affect Your Health, Happiness, and the Future of Life on Earth”, p.97, H J Kramer

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• The joy is that we can take back our bodies, reclaim our health, and restore ourselves to balance. We can take power over what and how we eat. We can rejuvenate and recharge ourselves, bringing healing to the wounds we carry inside us, and bringing to fuller life the wonderful person that each of us can be.

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  Healing, Joy, Balance

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• Every time you make a choice that expresses respect for life, you bring a little more love in your body, into your family, into our society, and into a world that is calling out for this blessing.

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  Ignorance, Blessing, Choices

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• Remember that one who forgets the language of gratitude can never be on speaking terms with happiness.

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  Gratitude, Language, Remember

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• Awareness is bad for the meat business. Conscience is bad for the meat business. Sensitivity to life is bad for the meat business. DENIAL, however, the meat business finds indispensable.

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  Vegetarianism, Meat, Denial

  John Robbins (2011). “Diet for a New America: How Your Food Choices Affect Your Health, Happiness, and the Future of Life on Earth”, p.92, H J Kramer

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• Your life does matter. It always matters whether you reach out in friendship or lash out in anger. It always matters whether you live with compassion and awareness or whether you succumb to distractions and trivia. It always matters how you treat other people, how you treat animals, and how you treat yourself. It always matters what you do. It always matters what you say. And it always matters what you eat.

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  Animal, Compassion, People

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• A reduction in meat consumption is the most powerful single act that you can take to halt the destruction of our environment and preserve our natural resources.

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  Powerful, Meat Consumption, Vegetarian

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• You know that a majority of the medical costs that are bankrupting families, companies, and nations could be eliminated with better nutrition.

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  Majority, Cost, Nutrition

  John Robbins, Ocean Robbins (2013). “Voices of the Food Revolution: You Can Heal Your Body and Your World with Food!”, p.15, Conari Press

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• Few of us are aware that the act of eating can be a powerful statement of commitment to our own well-being, and at the same time the creation of a healthier habitat. Your health, happiness, and the future of life on earth are rarely so much in your own hands as when you sit down to eat.

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  Powerful, Commitment, Hands

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• It is increasingly obvious that environmentally sustainable solutions to world hunger can only emerge as people eat more plant foods and fewer animal products. To me it is deeply moving that the same food choices that give us the best chance to eliminate world hunger are also those that take the least toll on the environment, contribute the most to our long-term health, are the safest, and are also, far and away, the most compassionate towards our fellow creatures.

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  Moving, Animal, Long

  John Robbins (2010). “The Food Revolution: How Your Diet Can Help Save Your Life and Our World”, p.302, Conari Press

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• The level of consumption that we identify with success is utterly unsustainable. We're gobbling up the world.

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  Inspiring, World, Levels

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• Studies indicate that vegetarians often have lower morbidity and mortality rates. . . . Not only is mortality from coronary artery disease lower in vegetarians than in non-vegetarians, but vegetarian diets have also been successful in arresting coronary artery disease. Scientific data suggest positive relationships between a vegetarian diet and reduced risk for obesity, coronary artery disease, hypertension, diabetes mellitus, and some types of cancer.

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  Cancer, Successful, Data

  John Robbins (2010). “The Food Revolution: How Your Diet Can Help Save Your Life and Our World”, p.15, Conari Press

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• If people knew how badly animals were treated in today's factory farms, if people knew how completely confined and immobilized these creatures are for their entire lives, if people knew how severe and unrelenting is the cruelty these animals are forced to endure, there would be change. If people knew. But too many of us choose to look the other way, to keep the veil in place, to remain unconscious and caught in the cultural trance. That way we are more comfortable. That way is convenient. That way we don' t have to risk too much. This is how we keep ourselves asleep.

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  Animal, People, Risk

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• It takes 16 lbs of grain to make 1 lb of beef. It takes 1 lb of grain to make 1 lb of bread. So, how many more plants are you eating if you eat a pound of beef? Secondly, I've harvested cabbages and pulled up carrots out of the ground and I've been in slaughter-houses and seen the animals have their brains bashed out with sledgehammers and their throats cut - the experiences are not comparable.

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  Cutting, Animal, House

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• In the never-ending battle between order and chaos, clutter sides with chaos every time. Anything that you possess that does not add to your life or your happiness eventually becomes a burden.

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  Order, Battle, Doe

  John Robbins (2010). “The New Good Life: Living Better Than Ever in an Age of Less”, p.220, Ballantine Books

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• It's always better to feed your enemies than to fight with them.

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  Fighting, Enemy, Vegan

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• Eating in a hurried or unconscious way, as so many of us have learned to do, is like receiving a love letter from the earth, but never taking the time to carefully read it.

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  Receiving, Earth, Letters

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• One day people will look back with amazement that we ever sought to grow our food with poisons.

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  People, One Day, Poison

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• The fork is the most powerful tool ever placed in our hands.

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  Powerful, Philosophy, Hands

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• I believe that eating simple food in a healthy body with a clean conscience is more pleasurable, and infinitely more satisfying, then eating decadent food that makes you and your world ill.

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  Believe, Simple, Healthy

  Robbins, John, Robbins, Ocean (2013). “Voices of the Food Revolution: You Can Heal Your Body and Your World with Food!”, p.251, Conari Press

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• Faith is not a matter of trusting that events will always occur to our liking, but of trust that, whatever happens, our inner resources will be equal to the moment.

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  Events, Matter, Moments

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• It may be healthier to eat beer and franks with cheer and thanks, than to eat sprouts and bread with doubts and dread.

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  Cheer, Beer, Doubt

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• Throughout history, people in all cultures and lands have gathered together at mealtimes. In forests and mountains, in humble abodes and great mansions, beneath star filled skies and beside hearths, people have given thanks, and offered their blessings.

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  Stars, Humble, Blessing

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• Give away your love, freely and without expectation. Give it away, and soon your life will be filled with love, and you will have set others on the path of love and peace.

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  Love, Giving, Expectations

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• Every so often a book comes along that has the power to alter the course of history. Project Animal Farm is that potent.

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  Book, Animal, Projects

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