We need another and a wiser and a perhaps more mystical concept of animals. — Henry Beston Copy Share Image
“Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace.” — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
My refusing to eat flesh occasioned an inconveniency, and I was frequently chid for my singularity. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens. — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
People eat meat and think they will become as strong as an ox, forgetting that the ox eats grass. — Pino Caruso Copy Share Image
“I treat vegetarianism as a phase that might any second end without warning.” — Amit Chaudhuri Copy Share Image
We are sick of war, we don't want to fight, And yet we gorge ourselves upon the dead. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I choose not to make a graveyard of my body for the rotting corpses of dead animals. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I am determined not to kill, not to let others kill, and not to support any act of killing in the world,… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
Every time we sit down to eat, we make a choice: Please choose vegetarianism. Do it for animals. Do it for the… — Alec Baldwin Copy Share Image
“Possessing strength and stillness is a sign of balance: power and serenity combined in one moment. It’s challenging enough to hold either… — Sebastian Pole Copy Share Image
For fear of causing terror to living beings, Mahamati, let the Bodhisattva who is disciplining himself to attain compassion, refrain from eating… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
That the object of the Brahmins in giving up beef-eating was to snatch away from the Buddhist Bhikshus the supremacy they had… — B. R. Ambedkar Copy Share Image
Vegetarianism should not be anything moral or religious. It is a question of aesthetics: one's sensitivity, one's respect, one's reverence for life. — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Flesh-eating by humans is unnecessary, irrational, anatomically unsound, unhealthy, unhygienic, uneconomic, unaesthetic, unkind and unethical. May I elaborate? — Helen and Scott Nearing Copy Share Image
My perspective of veganism was most affected by learning that the veal calf is a by-product of dairying, and that in essence… — Rynn Berry Copy Share Image
“For all the types of pain that can lead to suffering there is a solution. Through opening our hearts with compassion to… — Sebastian Pole Copy Share Image
The first man . . . ventured to call food and nourishment the parts that had a little before bellowed and cried,… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Love animals: God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled. Do not trouble their joy, don't harrass them, don't… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
It is all very well for 2% of the population to live in a monastic state of meatlessness while everyone else gorges… — Tristram Stuart Copy Share Image
I became a vegetarian after realizing that animals feel afraid, cold, hungry and unhappy like we do. I feel very deeply about… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
If anyone wants to save the planet, all they have to do is just stop eating meat. That's the single most important… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Will you dance for me? Let your breasts roam for a moment -- I need to see how they dance.' 'Okay.' She… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
People had a general attitude towards someone who practices vegetarianism are soft & kind n have no fighting attitude…Food is only for… — Goutham Aditya Devaguptapu Copy Share Image
“God loves and cares for creation and has the right to expect this loving care be replicated by humans. Creation exists, not… — Richard A. Young Copy Share Image
“No consciousness that we would recognize as consciousness. Not awareness, as far as we can make out, of a self with a… — J.M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
“I know many people far more upright and conscientous than I am who disagree, who think nothing of it. I know that… — Matthew Scully Copy Share Image
“I remember one bobcat they had in here - now bobcats are an endangered species in this neck of the woods -… — Michael Tobias Copy Share Image
“Jīvaka, I say that there are three instances in which meat should not be eaten: when it is seen, heard, or suspected… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
I'm no shrinking violet. I played hockey until half my teeth were knocked down my throat. And I'm extremely competitive on a… — Peter Burwash Copy Share Image
“There is no place left for the buffalo to roam. There’s only corn, wheat, and soy. About the only animals that escaped… — Lierre Keith Copy Share Image
“the most colourful characters of the historical advocates of vegetarianism was George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950). When Shaw decided to eliminate meat from… — Vesanto Melina Copy Share Image
“It’s cool. No sword. See? No sword. Calm thoughts. Sea grass. Mama cows. Vegetarianism.” — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
I wish that more and more adventurous young men would give up the gun in favour of the camera. — Jawaharlal Nehru Copy Share Image
The thought of two thousand people crunching celery at the same time horrified me. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
If appreciation and commendation were meat, most critics would be vegetarians. — Olalekan A Adebumiti Copy Share Image
Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
My dream is that people will come to view eating an animal as cannibalism. — Henry Spira Copy Share Image