Isaac Bashevis Singer Quotes About Food
Isaac Bashevis Singer was a Polish-born Jewish American journalist, novelist, short-story writer, and essayist, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1978. He was one of the leading figures of the Yiddish literary movement.
“Even in the worm that crawls in the earth there glows a divine spark. When you slaughter a creature, you slaughter God.”
“Kindness, I’ve discovered, is everything in life.”
“There will be no justice as long as man will stand with a knife or with a gun and destroy those who are weaker than he is.”
“When a human being kills an animal for food, he is neglecting his own hunger for justice. Man prays for mercy, but is unwilling to extend it to others. Why then should man expect mercy from God? It is unfair to expect something that you are not willing to give.”
“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.”
“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.”
“I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens.”
“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.”
“What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.”
“Life is God’s novel. Let him write it.”
