“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.

Employees are not guilty; why should they suffer?

Happiness and suffering do not depend on being poor or rich, they depend on having the right or wrong understanding in our mind.

When suffering arises, where does it arise from? The cause is wrong view, the fruit of that being suffering. If it was right view it wouldn’t cause suffering.

When we sit in meditation and hear a sound, we think, ‘Oh, that sound’s bothering me.’ If we see it like this, we suffer. But if we investigate a little deeper,

You should settle the issue right there. One who runs away from suffering out of fear is the most foolish person of all. He will simply increases his stupidity endlessly.

Peace is within oneself to be found in the same place as agitation and suffering.

Another man understands that nature of the river is to change constantly, regardless of his likes and dislikes, and therefore he does not suffer.

Trying to run away from suffering is actually to run toward it.