Top 89 Quotes by Jonathan Safran Foer

About Jonathan Safran Foer

These are some quotes by American author Jonathan Safran Foer Writer, who was born on February 21, 1977.

We eat as sons and daughters, as families, as communities, as generations, as nations, and increasingly as a globe. We can't stop our eating from radiating influence even if we want to.

We eat as sons and daughters, as families, as communities, as generations, as nations, and increasingly as a globe. We can't stop our eating from radiating influence even if we want to.

Jonathan Safran Foer

The purpose of the Seder to my mind is to inspire conversations with your family about the human drama and hopefully transmit values to the next generation. I've always felt like this could be better.

The purpose of the Seder to my mind is to inspire conversations with your family about the human drama and hopefully transmit values to the next generation. I've always felt like this could be better.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Maybe one day the world will change, that we'll be in a luxurious position of being able to debate whether or not it's inherently wrong to eat animals, but the question doesn't matter right now.

Maybe one day the world will change, that we'll be in a luxurious position of being able to debate whether or not it's inherently wrong to eat animals, but the question doesn't matter right now.

Jonathan Safran Foer

It's not worth getting too excited about thinking about the larger picture. The larger picture doesn't come into focus for an awfully long time.

It's not worth getting too excited about thinking about the larger picture. The larger picture doesn't come into focus for an awfully long time.

Jonathan Safran Foer

We say no to lots of things that would please us. I would like to punch people every now and then, but I don't. I would like to have something for free rather than pay for it. I would like to skip to the front of the line... I don't mean to brush aside the taste of meat, which is a powerful attraction. But its power is not without limit.

Jonathan Safran Foer

These little daily choices that we're so used to thinking are irrelevant are the most important thing we do all day long.

These little daily choices that we're so used to thinking are irrelevant are the most important thing we do all day long.

Jonathan Safran Foer

When it comes to meat, change is almost always cast as an absolute. You are a vegetarian or you are not.

When it comes to meat, change is almost always cast as an absolute. You are a vegetarian or you are not.

Jonathan Safran Foer

It would be refreshing to have a politician try to defend guns without any reference to the Second Amendment, but on the merits of guns.

It would be refreshing to have a politician try to defend guns without any reference to the Second Amendment, but on the merits of guns.

Jonathan Safran Foer

I am an on-and-off vegetarian. Sometimes on, mostly off. I think it is better to be a vegetarian but occasionally, the call of the hot dog overpowers my ethics.

I am an on-and-off vegetarian. Sometimes on, mostly off. I think it is better to be a vegetarian but occasionally, the call of the hot dog overpowers my ethics.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Just about every children's book in my local bookstore has an animal for its hero. But then, only a few feet away in the cookbook section, just about every cookbook includes recipes for cooking animals. Is there a more illuminating illustration of our paradoxical relationship with the nonhuman world?

Jonathan Safran Foer

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