Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes About Values

Quotes about: Values

• One of the greatest opportunities to live our values-or betray them-lies in the food we put on our plates.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Lying, Opportunity, Plates

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2010). “Eating Animals”, p.212, Penguin UK

• Since the world has changed so much, the same values don't lead to the same choices anymore.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Choices, World, Changed

• Stories about food are stories about us-our history and our values.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Stories, Values

  "Eating Animals". Book by Jonathan Safran Foer, November 2, 2009.

• Raising your kids vegetarian is a great way to encourage them to do the opposite of what you want! But the goal is not to have them have the same values that I have. It's to have them act on their values.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Kids, Opposites, Goal

• Life is precious, so I ought to spend my days, you know, making sandwiches for homeless people and tending to the elderly in hospice care. Life is precious, so I should give everything away, except that I live in the world. And in the world, I actually have needs and wants, and I value my needs and wants. And I live in the world, and I can't just go make sandwiches every day because I also have to take kids to school. I also have to, you know, write books because that's my livelihood.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Book, School, Kids

  Source: www.npr.org

• To remember my values, I need to lose certain tastes and find other handles for the memories that they once helped me carry.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Memories, Needs, Taste

  "Against Meat" by Jonathan Safran Foer, www.nytimes.com. October 7, 2009.

• Profound, bottomless self-doubt - it has no value - what's the point? In a way, it takes up as much time as anything else.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Self, Profound, Doubt

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