I feel like a mother who has a child who is well-behaved and you'd love to give him a shiny new bike for Christmas, but you can't afford it, so you just have to say no.


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The most effective way to distort reality is to deny it; if we tell ourselves there isn't a problem,...
MELANIE JOY
Have you ever noticed that, though we breed, raise, and kill ten billion animals per year, most of u...
MELANIE JOY
It is impossible to exercise free will as long as we are operating from within the system. Free will...
MELANIE JOY
In much of the industrialized world, we eat meat not because we have to; we eat meat because we choo...
MELANIE JOY
The ten billion animals that are killed every year for meat and the virulent consequences of contemp...
MELANIE JOY
As with any violent ideology, the populace must be shielded from direct exposure to the victims of t...
MELANIE JOY
The carnistic schema, which twists information so that nonsense seems to make perfect sense, also ex...
MELANIE JOY
Yet on some level we do know the truth. We know that meat production is a messy business, but we cho...
MELANIE JOY
If you walked into your local convenience store and bought a package of cigars, you would notice tha...
MELANIE JOY
There is a vast mythology surrounding meat, but all the myths are in one way or another related to w...
MELANIE JOY
Becoming aware of the intense suffering of billions of animals, and of our own participation in that...
MELANIE JOY
But why must the system go to such lengths to block our empathy? Why all the psychological acrobatic...
MELANIE JOY
The path of the norm is the path of least resistance; it is the route we take when we're on auto-pil...
MELANIE JOY
We love dogs and eat cows not because dogs and cows are fundamentally different--cows, like dogs, ha...
MELANIE JOY
Most of us believe that eating meat is natural because humans have hunted and consumed animals for m...
MELANIE JOY
Think about it: virtually every atrocity in the history of humankind was enabled by a populace that ...
MELANIE JOY
To identify with others is to see something of yourself in them and to see something of them in your...
MELANIE JOY
I wouldn't be betting the farm on that one.
JOY OLSON
The Open Source theorem says that if you give away source code, innovation will occur. Certainly, Un...
BILL JOY
Although humankind inherently "desires to know", if open access to, and unlimited development of, kn...
BILL JOY
Jini's different from personal computers because Jini's simple. It's only 35,000 lines of code.
BILL JOY
Don't be anyone's side dish. If you're in this kind of situation and I'm offending you that's just t...
JOY MANISCALCO
The trade deficit will be couched in terms of outsourcing. If you look at trade itself, it doesn't c...
DAVID JOY
Violent ideologies follow their own logic, the logic that sustains the system - a convoluted logic t...
MELANIE JOY
Real love isn't ordinary. Real love isn't artificial. Real love isn't something you can buy or manuf...
JOY MANISCALCO
Being comfortable with someone doesn't necessarily mean they feel some deep rooted connection with y...
JOY MANISCALCO
The common misconception is that women who like to be treated a certain way are high maintenance. It...
JOY MANISCALCO
It's a cold breakfast, but there's some variety. They could have cereal or peanut butter and jelly s...
JOY ARMSTRONG
If you know someone is going to punch you, should you close your eyes and pretend it's not going to ...
JOY MANISCALCO
If a guy tells you he no longer wants to be with you, but he still calls at odd hours of the night t...
JOY MANISCALCO
I'm interested in so many different things and I'd like to cover a lot of territory. I'm...
JOY BEHAR
I don't need a man to go to sleep at night. I know I'll get a perfectly good night's rest and wake u...
JOY MANISCALCO
Bitmap display is media compatible with dot matrix or laser printers.
BILL JOY
I think the hard thing about all these tools is that it takes a fair amount of effort to become prof...
BILL JOY
The fires there were contained and no longer were a threat prior to a declaration being made.
JOY MOSER
You’re with a girl. She’s brown-haired and side-swept. I imagine that she’s the kind of girl w...
JOY WILSON
I had almost rewritten all of the display code for windows, and that was when I gave up.
BILL JOY
Robert De Niro, I have loved this man forever. I mean, I think I have seen the 'Godfather' 3...
JOY MANGANO
Literature cannot be imposed; it must be discovered.
AMY JOY
Our rover might not last that long.
JOY CRISP
I don't need a diet pill. I need something that gives you an electric shock when you reach for f...
JOY BEHAR
Why is it that people treat being SINGLE like it's the plague? I'm sorry, but it's not leprocy peopl...
JOY MANISCALCO
It's funny, when you first start dating someone you go over the checklist that you have in your head...
JOY MANISCALCO
Ladies, let me clue you in on a little secret...Men are not dolls and they don't need us to take car...
JOY MANISCALCO
I don't need a man to take care of me. I want a man who wants to take care me. Can I make my own chi...
JOY MANISCALCO
Here's the thing about needs and wants...when you want something bad enough, it becomes a necessity....
JOY MANISCALCO