If God wanted us to be vegetarians, he would have made broccoli a lot more fun to hunt! — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When a human being kills an animal for food, he is neglecting his own hunger for justice. — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
One who kill, own life will be shortened; One who harms, will be injured even more — Akkineni Nagarjuna Copy Share Image
“Before you rush off trying to see everything you can, educate yourself.” — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
For innumerable reasons, Mahamati, the Bodhisattva, whose nature is compassion, is not to eat any meat. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
In all the round world there is no meat. There used to be. But now we cannot stand the thought of slaughterhouses. — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
Even if we cannot be completely non-voilent, by being vegetarian we are going in the direction of non-voilence — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
If experiments on animals were abandoned on grounds of compassion, mankind would have made a fundamental advance. — Richard Wagner Copy Share Image
Think of the fierce energy concentrated in an acorn! You bury it in the ground, and it explodes into an oak! Bury… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Plant life instead of animal food is the keystone of regeneration. Jesus used bread instead of flesh and wine in place of… — Richard Wagner Copy Share Image
I have lived temperately, eating little animal food, and that not as an aliment, so much as a condiment for the vegetables,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
There used to be a time - it isn't so much the case now - that vegetarianism was some kind of religion,… — Yotam Ottolenghi Copy Share Image
In every country in the world, killing human beings is condemned. The Buddhist precept of non-killing extends even further, to include all… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
I became a vegetarian because I was persuaded that life is as valid for other creatures as it is for humans. I… — Helen and Scott Nearing Copy Share Image
“Ethical vegetarians eat only plant-based food in order to show compassion toward animals and other humans and to benefit the planet.” — Sharon Gannon Copy Share Image
Not to hurt our humble brethren is our first duty to them, but to stop there is not enough. We have a… — Francis of Assisi Copy Share Image
The indifference, callousness and contempt that so many people exhibit toward animals is evil first because it results in great suffering in… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“But this practice [vegetarianism], in which youthful love of austerity finds charm, calls for attentions more complicated than those of culinary refinement… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
You take this meat eating. Many people have to kill the animals because of your non-vegetarianism. You are responsible for the death… — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
“That is the way with all of your kind… It is how you are made; you must all strive to claw your… — Iain M. Banks Copy Share Image
Flesh eating is simply immoral, as it involves the performance of an act which is contrary to moral feeling: By killing, man… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
It seems disingenuous for the intellectual elite of the first world to dwell on the subject of too many babies being born… — Jeremy Rifkin Copy Share Image
Although I have been prevented by outward circumstances from observing a strictly vegetarian diet, I have long been an adherent to the… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Try vegetarianism and you will be surprised: meditation becomes far easier. Love becomes more subtle, loses its grossness — becomes more sensitive… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“Some animal rights activists are demanding vegetarianism, even veganism now, or nothing. But since only 4 or 5 percent of Americans claim… — Steven Wise Copy Share Image
“Scientific studies and government records suggest that virtually all (upwards of 95 percent of) chickens become infected with E. coli (an indicator… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“A human body in no way resembles those that were born for ravenousness; it hath no hawk’s bill, no sharp talon, no… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
“People said things to me like "They're just animals. They're here for our use." I had a visceral reaction to that phrase,… — Elizabeth Kim Copy Share Image
“The plea for ethical veganism, which rejects the treatment of birds and other animals as a food source or other commodity, is… — Karen Davis Copy Share Image
When a human kills an animal for food, he is neglecting his own hunger for justice. Man prays for mercy, but is… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
The salvation of birds and beasts, oneself included - this is the object of Shakyamuni's religious austerities. — Ikkyu Copy Share Image
Many things made me become a vegetarian, among them the higher food yield as a solution to world hunger. — John Denver Copy Share Image
Better a meal of vegetables where there is love than a fattened calf with hatred — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Mankind does not have dominion over the Earth, mankind has a relationship with the Earth.” — J.Adam Snyder Copy Share Image
Ethics is in its unqualified form extended responsibility with regard to everything that has life. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The most energetic workers I have encountered in my world travels are the vegetarian miners of Chile. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
To avoid causing terror to living beings, let the disciple refrain from eating meat. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
We manage to swallow flesh, only because we do not think of the cruel and sinful thing we do. — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
The idea of vegetarianism is of immense value; it is based on great reverence for life. — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Eating meat is a leftover of the greatest brutality [killing]; the transition to vegetarianism is the first and most natural consequence of… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
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