“I hope to get you to think differently about suffering and pain, to convince you that animals matter, and to argue that anyone serious about ending domination and hierarchy needs to think critically about bringing animals into consideration.”

Instead of demanding a more equitable system for the distribution of social and economic goods, we blame the victim.

What has three heads, six arms, and half a brain?” Three asked. One and Two answered in unison. “Nate Sutter.

Poverty and unemployment are part and parcel of our economic order.

The minute somebody joins a committee… they immediately suffer from committee brain. They become wildly over-enthusiastic, over-optimistic, over-pessimistic. Committees turn people into idiots, and politics is a committee.

But I have learned that kindness and love can pay for pain and suffering.

Let’s face it. Umpiring is not an easy or happy way to make a living. In the abuse they suffer, and the pay they get for it, you see an imbalance that can only be explained by their need to stay close to a game they can’t resist.

For our Lord suffered. And I come to believe that he suffered, not to save us from suffering, but to teach us how to bear suffering. For he knew that there is no life without suffering.

I have never thought that a Christian would be free of suffering, umfundisi.

Pain and suffering, they are a secret. Kindness and love, they are a secret.

If a person holds ambitions, he suffers knowingly, but very slowly.

But if you consider how abnormal their behavior is, then you are led to the hypothesis that almost all men are suffering from ‘testosterone poisoning.’