Uncomfortable Truths Quotes

“People may hope that the meat they buy came from an animal who died without pain, but they do not really want to know about it. Yet those who, by their purchases, require animals to be killed do not deserve to be shielded from this or any other aspect of the production of the meat they buy.”
― Peter Singer, Animal Liberation

“Like leaving, the hardest part of returning was deciding to.”
― Brit Bennett, The Vanishing Half

“Eventually, remembering turned into imagining; how slight the difference was between the two.”
― Brit Bennett, The Vanishing Half

“And it was clear that the fundamental problem facing our species, the root cause of all the worlds woes, the very reason we need a place like E2 to begin with was over population.”
― T. Coraghessan Boyle, The Terranauts

“In this case Karen’s child was her story. And all the world was waiting greedily for its deliverance even if they didn’t yet know its name or the uncomfortable shape of it and the peculiar contours that altogether were sure to test the foundations upon which they had built their holiest of houses and coziest of dens. They only knew that all of history was in want of a definitive accounting and that such had already been written and then ensepulchered by prophets unsung and that their eventual unveiling was nothing less than the birthright of all humankind.”
― Casey Fisher, The Subtle Cause

“I was still a child, but the looks of the men told me otherwise. In that moment, clothes became a threshold, and childhood slipped away without asking.”
― Angelika Regossi, Love in Communism: A Young Woman's Adult Story