Two important things are to have a genuine interest in people and to be kind to them. Kindness, I've discovered, is everything. Isaac Bashevis Singer More Quotes by Isaac Bashevis Singer More Quotes From Isaac Bashevis Singer For those who are willing to make an effort, great miracles and wonderful treasures are in store. Isaac Bashevis Singer positivity effort miracle What do they know-all these scholars, all these philosophers, all the leaders of the world - about such as you? They have convinced themselves that man, the worst transgressor of all the species, is the crown of creation. All other creatures were created merely to provide him with food, pelts, to be tormented, exterminated. In relation to them, all people are Nazis; for the animals it is an eternal Treblinka. Isaac Bashevis Singer animal men people In their behavior toward creatures, all men are Nazis. Human beings see oppression vividly when they're the victims. Otherwise they victimize blindly and without a thought. Isaac Bashevis Singer animal-rights vegetarianism men As long as people will shed the blood of innocent creatures there can be no peace, no liberty, no harmony between people. Slaughter and justice cannot dwell together. Isaac Bashevis Singer vegetarianism compassion animal But if we have people who have the power to tell a story, there will always be readers. Isaac Bashevis Singer reader stories people It is a general rule that when the grain of truth cannot be found, men will swallow great helpings of falsehood. Isaac Bashevis Singer helping men lying Sometimes love is stronger than a man's convictions. Isaac Bashevis Singer love men life The Jewish people have been in exile for 2,000 years; they have lived in hundreds of countries, spoken hundreds of languages and still they kept their old language, Hebrew. They kept their Aramaic, later their Yiddish; they kept their books; they kept their faith. Isaac Bashevis Singer country book years People often say that humans have always eaten animals, as if this is a justification for continuing the practice. According to this logic, we should not try to prevent people from murdering other people, since this has also been done since the earliest of times. Isaac Bashevis Singer vegetarianism practice animal Whenever I'm in trouble, I pray. And because I'm in trouble all of the time, I pray almost constantly. Isaac Bashevis Singer trouble praying prayer Man prays for mercy, but is unwilling to extend it to others. Why then should man expect mercy from God? It is Isaac Bashevis Singer vegetarianism giving men We must believe in free will - we have no choice. Isaac Bashevis Singer choices literature believe As often as Herman had witnessed the slaughter of animals and fish, he always had the same thought: in their behavior toward creatures, all men were Nazis. The smugness with which man could do with other species as he pleased exemplified the most extreme racist theories, the principle that might is right. Isaac Bashevis Singer principles animal men Life is God's novel. Let him write it. Isaac Bashevis Singer literature writing life Night is a time of rigor, but also of mercy. There are truths which one can see only when it’s dark Isaac Bashevis Singer mercy dark night I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens. Isaac Bashevis Singer cooking vegetarianism food There are 500 reasons I write for children.... Children read books, not reviews. They don't give a hoot about the critics.... They don't read to free themselves of guilt, to quench their thirst for rebellion, or to get rid of alienation. They still believe in God, the family, angels, devils, witches, goblins, logic, clarity, punctuation, and other such obsolete stuff.... They don't expect their beloved writer to redeem humanity. Young as they are, they know that it is not in his power. Only the adults have such childish illusions. Isaac Bashevis Singer believe book children Men want all women to lie down as whores and get up as virgins. Isaac Bashevis Singer want men lying There is a permanent amnesia planted in us, which just as we keep forgetting our dreams, we sometimes keep on forgetting our reality. Isaac Bashevis Singer dream sometimes reality Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression. The chasm is never completely bridged. We all have the conviction, perhaps illusory, that we have much more to say than appears on the paper. Isaac Bashevis Singer vision expression writing
