Quotes by Isaac Bashevis Singer

What nature creates has eternity in it.

To be a vegetarian is to disagree—to disagree with the course of things today. Starvation, world hunger, cruelty, waste, wars—we must make a statement against these things. Vegetarianism is my statement. And I think it's a strong one.

There will be no justice as long as man will stand with a knife or with a gun and destroy those who are weaker than he is.

As long as human beings go on shedding the blood of animals, there will never be any peace.

We know what a person thinks, not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions.

Originality is not seen in single words or even in sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his writing.

What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.

The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it begins to ignore the passions, the motions - it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance.

There will be no justice as long as man will stand with a knife or with a gun and destroy those who are weaker than he is.

You must believe in free will; there is no choice.