Cesar Quotes

Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.

Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.

We need, in a special way, to work twice as hard to help people understand that the animals are fellow creatures, that we must protect them and love them as we love ourselves.

We do not remember days, we remember moments.

Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends. You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things: air, sleep, dreams, sea, the sky - all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it.

I believe in integrity. Dogs have it. Humans are sometimes lacking it.

Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference. Perhaps this is why we always love madly someone who treats us with indifference.

We know we cannot be kind to animals until we stop exploiting them -- exploiting animals in the name of science, exploiting animals in the name of sport, exploiting animals in the name of fashion, and yes, exploiting animals in the name of food.

Once social change begins, it cannot be reversed. You cannot un-educate the person who has learned to read. You cannot humiliate the person who feels pride. You cannot oppress the people who are not afraid anymore. Cesar Chavez Address to the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, Nov. 9, 1984

My lord...I can explain-," Louis-Cesare began, looking less than certain that he could do anything of the kind. Radu held up a hand. "I am sure there is a perfectly good reason why my niece is naked and tied to her bed. I am also equally certain that I do not wish to hear it".

We do not remember days, we remember moments. The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.

Kindness and compassion towards all living things is a mark of a civilized society. Conversely, cruelty, whether it is directed against human beings or against animals, is not the exclusive province of any one culture or community of people.

The cadence of suffering has begun - Cesare Pavese I am in pieces.

I became a vegetarian after realizing that animals feel afraid, cold, hungry and unhappy like we do. I feel very deeply about vegetarianism and the animal kingdom. It was my dog Boycott who led me to question the right of humans to eat other sentient beings.

Discipline isn't about showing a dog who's boss; it's about taking responsibility for a living creature you have brought into your world.

Only when we have become nonviolent towards all life will we have learned to live well with others.

No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

You are never strong enough that you don't need help.

The great lovers will always be unhappy, because for them love is great and so they ask of their beloved the same intensity of thought that they have for her – otherwise they feel betrayed.

I love the name of honor more than I fear death.