Vegetarianism Quotes
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Many things made me become a vegetarian, among them, the higher food yield as a solution to world hunger. (Quote by - John Denver)
Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)
Caesar's armies marched on vegetarian foods. (Quote by - Will Durant)
I have no doubt that it is a part of the destiny of the human race, in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals, as surely as the savage tribes have left off eating each other when they came in contact with the more civilized. (Quote by - Henry David Thoreau)
I have known many meat eaters to be far more nonviolent than vegetarians. (Quote by - Mahatma Gandhi)
To become vegetarian is to step into the stream which leads to nirvana. (Quote by - Buddha)
I do feel that spiritual progress does demand at some stage that we should cease to kill our fellow creatures for the satisfaction of our bodily wants. (Quote by - Mahatma Gandhi)
It is my view that the vegetarian manner of living, by its purely physical effect on the human temperament, would most beneficially influence the lot of mankind. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)
As long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seeds of murder and pain cannot reap joy and love. (Quote by - Pythagorus)
It is necessary to correct the error that vegetarianism has made us weak in mind, or passive or inert in action. I do not regard flesh-food as necessary at any stage (Quote by - Mahatma Gandhi)
Nonviolence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all living beings, we are all savages. (Quote by - Thomas Edison)
When a man wants to murder a tiger, he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him, he calls it ferocity. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
Truly man is the king of beasts, for his brutality exceeds them. We live by the death of others. We are burial places! I have since an early age abjured the use of meat. (Quote by - Leonardo da Vinci)
A dead cow or sheep lying in a pasture is recognized as carrion. The same sort of carcass dressed and hung up in a butcher's stall passes as food! (Quote by - J. H. Kellog)
I do not see any reason why animals should be slaughtered to serve as human diet when there are so many substitutes. After all, man can live without meat. (Quote by - The Dalai Lama)
He who does not value life does not deserve it. (Quote by - Leonardo da Vinci)
I hold flesh-food to be unsuited to our species. We err in copying the lower animal world if we are superior to it. (Quote by - Mahatma Gandhi)
I look my age. It is the other people who look older than they are. What can you expect from people who eat corpses? (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
I do not want to make my stomach a graveyard of dead animals. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
He who, seeking his own happiness, punishes or kills beings who also long for happiness, will not find happiness after death. (Quote by - Buddhist Dhammapada)
We are all God's creatures--that we pray to God for mercy and justice while we continue to eat the flesh of animals that are slaughtered on our account is not consistent. (Quote by - Isaac Bashevis)
Vegetarianism is a greater progress. From the greater clearness of head and quicker apprehension motivated him to become a vegetarian. Flesh-eating is an unprovoked murder. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
We are meant to be addicted to God, but we develop secondary addictions that temporarily appear to fix our problem. (Quote by - Edward M Berckman)
Doubt 'til thou canst doubt no more...doubt is thought and thought is life. Systems which end doubt are devices for drugging thought. (Quote by - Albert Guerard)
Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
Guilt resembles a sword with two edges. On the one hand, it cuts for Justice, imposing practical morality upon those who fear it. But there is another side to that weighted emotion. Conscience does not always adhere to rational judgment. Guilt is always a self-imposed burden, but it is not always rightly imposed. (Quote by - R A Salvatore Sojourn)
Goodness is easier to recognize than to define. (Quote by - Wystan Hugh Auden)
Blade He makes the weapons, I use them. (Quote by - Blade)
If my theory of relativity proves to be correct, Germany will claim me a German, and France will claim me a citizen of the world. However, if it proves wrong, France will say I?m a German, and Germany will say that I?m a jew. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)
Reason and justice tell me there's more love for humanity in electricity and steam than in chastity and vegetarianism. (Quote by - Anton Chekhov)
Therefore, vegetarianism alone can give us the quality of com-passion, which distinguishes man from the rest of the animal world. (Quote by - Morarji Desai)
Vegetarianism is a link to perfection and peace. (Quote by - River Phoenix)
We should propagate the values of vegetarianism. (Quote by - Morarji Desai)
With my time in the limelight, I regret that I didn't use it more to push vegetarianism. I support vegetarian options in the school lunch program. (Quote by - Bernhard Goetz)
I nearly always find, when I ask a vegetarian if he is a socialist, or a socialist if he is a vegetarian, that the answer is in the affirmative. (Quote by - Katharine Fullerton Gerould)
I know vegetarians don't like to hear this, but God made an awful lot of land that's good for nothing but grazing. (Quote by - Molly Ivins)
I was a vegetarian until I started leaning toward the sunlight. (Quote by - Rita Rudner)
Vegetarianism is harmless enough, though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness. (Quote by - Robert M Hutchins)
A vegetarian is not a person who lives on vegetables, any more than a Catholic is a person who lives on cats. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
Tongue - a variety of meat, rarely served because it clearly crosses the line between a cut of beef and a piece of a dead cow. (Quote by - Bob Ekstrom)
I've found without question that the best way to lead others to a more plant-based diet is by example - to lead with your fork, not your mouth. (Quote by - Bernie Wilke)
Vegetarianism can easily reach religious proportions. Refraining from meat on moral grounds serves to dignify feelings of guilt toward sad-eyed, furry creatures and substitutes righteousness for squeamishness. (Quote by - Bill Griffith)
A vegetarian is a person who won't eat anything that can have children. (Quote by - David Brenner)
I've been a vegetarian for years and years. I'm not judgmental about others who aren't, I just feel I cannot eat or wear living creatures. (Quote by - Drew Barrymore)
Most vegetarians I ever see looked enough like their food to be classified as cannibals. (Quote by - Finley Peter Dunne)
Think of the fierce energy concentrated in an acorn! You bury it in the ground, and it explodes into an oak! Bury a sheep, and nothing happens but decay. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
Vegetarian: A person who eats only side dishes. (Quote by - Gerald Lieberman)
A mind of the calibre of mine cannot derive its nutriment from cows. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
A man of my spiritual intensity does not eat corpses. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered beasts, how can we expect any ideal conditions on this earth? (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
You put a baby in a crib with an apple and a rabbit. If it eats the rabbit and plays with the apple, I'll buy you a new car. (Quote by - Harvey Diamond)
I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens. (Quote by - Isaac Bashevis)
Recognize meat for what it really is: the antibiotic- and pesticide-laden corpse of a tortured animal. (Quote by - Ingrid Newkirk)
We don't need to eat anyone who would run, swim, or fly away if he could. (Quote by - James Cromwell)
Nothing spoils lunch any quicker than a rogue meatball rampaging through your spaghetti. (Quote by - Jim Davis)
If you knew how meat was made, you'd probably lose your lunch. (Quote by - k.d.lang)
We all love animals. Why do we call some "pets" and others "dinner?" (Quote by - k.d.lang)
Why does Sea World have a seafood restaurant? I'm halfway through my fishburger and I realize, Oh my God. I could be eating a slow learner. (Quote by - Lynda Montgomery)
In the strict scientific sense we all feed on death - even vegetarians. (Quote by - Mr. Spock)
The human body has no more need for cows' milk than it does for dogs' milk, horses' milk, or giraffes' milk. (Quote by - Michael Klaper)
Coexistence... what the farmer does with the turkey - until Thanksgiving. (Quote by - Mike Connolly)
I won't eat anything that has intelligent life, but I'd gladly eat a network executive or a politician. (Quote by - Marty Feldman)
There is no substitute for mother's milk. (Quote by - Martin H. Fischer)
All normal people love meat. If I went to a barbeque and there was no meat, I would say, "Yo Goober! Where's the meat?" I'm trying to impress people here, Lisa. You don't win friends with salad. (Quote by - Matt Groening)
I think if you want to eat more meat you should kill it yourself and eat it raw so that you are not blinded by the hypocrisy of having it processed for you. (Quote by - Margi Clark)
To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being. I should be unwilling to take the life of a lamb for the sake of the human body. (Quote by - Mahatma Gandhi)
The beef industry has contributed to more American deaths than all the wars of this century, all natural disasters, and all automobile accidents combined. If beef is your idea of "real food for real people" you'd better live real close to a real good hospital. (Quote by - Neal Barnard)
I never go without my dinner. No one ever does, except vegetarians and people like that. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian. (Quote by - Paul McCartney)
Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own. (Quote by - Robert Louis Stevenson)
My perspective of veganism was most affected by learning that the veal calf is a by-product of dairying, and that in essence there is a slice of veal in every glass of what I had thought was an innocuous white liquid - milk. (Quote by - Rynn Berry)
You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them. (Quote by - Samuel Butler)
If you're not vegan, you're not vegetarian. (Quote by - V.L. Allineare)
