“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.

So then it comes back to whether the suffering and cruelty is justified by its place in a tradition that has deep roots in the culture. At present, the view in Catalonia apparently is that it does not.

The spirit I had caught gave me insight into the suffering of others, made me gravitate toward those whose feelings were like my own, made me sit for hours while others told me of their lives, made me strangely tender and cruel, violent and peaceful.

It was more than that. It was the period in which we suffered more total losses than in all the rest of our life put together.

I once heard some idiot on the radio saying that all great art has suffering as its dominant theme, and that the greatest artists are only able to create because they suffer immensely in their own lives. What a bunch of bullshit.

Anything was better than nothing. Half-full was better than empty. Ignorance was the lowest form of humiliation and suffering.

God became someone we could hurt. Why? To get us back… No other religion-whethe r secularism, Greco-Roman paganism, Eastern religion, Judaism, or Islam-believes God became breakable or suffered or had a body.

Christ did not suffer so you wouldn’t suffer. He suffered so when you suffer you will become like Him.

Success and suffering will either darken your heart or make you wise, but they won’t leave you where you were.