"Certainly it is wrong to be cruel to animals and the destruction of a whole species can be a great evil. The capacity for feelings of pleasure and pain and for the form of life of which animals are capable clearly impose duties of compassion and humanity in their case."

-- John Rawls

#Pain Quotes #Animal Quotes #Compassion Quotes

“Jesus Christ does not save the worthy, but the unworthy. Your plea must not be righteousness but guilt”
“A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.”
“You don't feel a thing. There's just something missing. And once it gets hold of you, something more is missing every day. Soon there won't be anything left of us.”
“There are so many steps you have to go through to reach a high level, so youre kind of building your own, I would say, mountain. You have to go piece by piece by piece. When youre young and really ambitious, you want to jump right up. It kind of teaches you a lesson, I would say.”

Source : "Coffee break with Victoria Azarenka". Interview with Jon Wertheim, www.si.com. August 28, 2012.
“There is no reason why challenging themes and engaging stories have to be mutually exclusive - in fact, each can fuel the other. As a filmmaker, I want to entertain people first and foremost. If out of that comes a greater awareness and understanding of a time or a circumstance, then the hope is that change can happen.”
“If we train our conscience, it kisses us while it hurts”
“There is work that is work and there is play that is play; there is play that is work and work that is play. And in only one of these lies happiness.”
“I have a no-die clause in every movie. The black people can't be dying all the time.”

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