Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" I've never particularly liked bankers. "

Jonathan Safran Foer

Related Quotes:

" As I've grown older, I've grown more convinced there's nothing that shouldn't be talked about. If we think we're protecting each other, we're not. "

Jonathan Safran Foer

" It's possible to make things that aren't just money-makers. Something wonderful for its own sake. "

Jonathan Safran Foer

" My children not only inspired me to reconsider what kind of eating animal I would be, but also shamed me into reconsideration. "

Jonathan Safran Foer

" People who care about animals tend to care about people. They don't care about animals to the exclusion of people. Caring is not a finite resource and, even more than that, it's like a muscle: the more you exercise it, the stronger it gets. "

Jonathan Safran Foer

" Oh, I'd say I like a meal as much as anybody. But I find a certain kind of foodiness silly, gluttonous and embarrassing. "

Jonathan Safran Foer

" When it comes to meat, change is almost always cast as an absolute. You are a vegetarian or you are not. "

Jonathan Safran Foer

" We shouldn't be intimidated by someone else's idea of perfection if it will prevent us from taking steps we actively want to take. "

Jonathan Safran Foer

" Few people sufficiently appreciate the colossal task of feeding a world of billions of omnivores who demand meat with their potatoes. "

Jonathan Safran Foer

" Why does watching a dog be a dog fill one with happiness? "

Jonathan Safran Foer

" Food is not rational. Food is culture, habit, craving and identity. "

Jonathan Safran Foer

" There is a glaring reason that the necessary total ban on nontherapeutic use of antibiotics hasn't happened: The factory farm industry, allied with the pharmaceutical industry, has more power than public-health professionals. "

Jonathan Safran Foer

" That's the nice thing about being a vegetarian. You don't have to be neurotic. Selective omnivores have to be neurotic. Personally, I don't have time for all that; I don't want to get into it. "

Jonathan Safran Foer

" I think there's going to be something that happens now, where books move in two directions, one toward digitized formats and one toward remembering what's nice about the physicality of them. "

Jonathan Safran Foer

" Food is not just what we put in our mouths to fill up; it is culture and identity. Reason plays some role in our decisions about food, but it's rarely driving the car. "

Jonathan Safran Foer

" The French, who love their dogs, sometimes eat their horses. The Spanish, who love their horses, sometimes eat their cows. The Indians, who love their cows, sometimes eat their dogs. "

Jonathan Safran Foer

" In America right now, we use words like 'smart' to talk about bombs. American rhetoric is grounded in ideas of capital-G Good, capital-E Evil, and it's very clear who is on which side. But in a book you can do just the opposite. You can use all lower-case words. "

Jonathan Safran Foer

" Again and again we are confronted with the reality - some might say the problem - of sharing our space with other living things, be they dogs, trees, fish or penguins. "

Jonathan Safran Foer

" I need an office, so I can have a place where I don't write. "

Jonathan Safran Foer

" I am an on-and-off vegetarian. Sometimes on, mostly off. I think it is better to be a vegetarian but occasionally, the call of the hot dog overpowers my ethics. "

Jonathan Safran Foer

" Is there really anyone, besides Rudy Giuliani, who prefers the new Times Square? "

Jonathan Safran Foer

" These little daily choices that we're so used to thinking are irrelevant are the most important thing we do all day long. "

Jonathan Safran Foer

" Consumers are going to have get used to eating less meat - to paying more for better quality meat and eating significantly less of it. "

Jonathan Safran Foer

" There's no being wrong in seeing something in art, only being disagreed with. "

Jonathan Safran Foer

" There are a lot of things that we crave, there are a lot of things that would make us perhaps more fulfilled in a sensory way that we just say no to. "

Jonathan Safran Foer

" The purpose of the Seder to my mind is to inspire conversations with your family about the human drama and hopefully transmit values to the next generation. I've always felt like this could be better. "

Jonathan Safran Foer

" There is an overabundance of rational reasons to say no to factory-farmed meat: It is the No. 1 cause of global warming, it systematically forces tens of billions of animals to suffer in ways that would be illegal if they were dogs, it is a decisive factor in the development of swine and avian flus, and so on. "

Jonathan Safran Foer

" It would be refreshing to have a politician try to defend guns without any reference to the Second Amendment, but on the merits of guns. "

Jonathan Safran Foer

" I want to talk about God in a literary way. But I think I would have a very hard time praying to God. "

Jonathan Safran Foer

" 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? "

Jonathan Safran Foer

" Literature has drawn a funny perimeter that other art forms haven't. "

Jonathan Safran Foer