When it's all said and done we will lose a piece to a…

How do we know that we have a right to kill creatures that we are so little above, as dogs, for our curiosity or…

— Alexander Pope

I hold flesh-food to be unsuited to our species. We err in copying the lower animal world if we are superior to it.

— Mahatma Gandhi

For fear of causing terror to living beings, Mahamati, let the Bodhisattva who is disciplining himself to attain compassion, refrain from eating flesh.

— Gautama Buddha

If a person does not harm any living being...and does not kill or cause others to kill - that person is a true spiritual…

— Gautama Buddha

When people ask me why I don't eat meat or any other animal products, I say, 'Because they are unhealthy and they are the…

— Casey Affleck

Food affects the mind. For the practice of any kind of yoga, vegetarianism is absolutely necessary since it makes the mind more pure and…

— Ramana Maharshi

People often say that humans have always eaten animals, as if this is a justification for continuing the practice. According to this logic, we…

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

People eat meat and think they will become as strong as an ox, forgetting that the ox eats grass.

— Pino Caruso

Hitler was a vegetarian. Just goes to show, vegetarianism, not always a good thing. Can in some extreme cases lead to genocide.

— Bill Bailey

The idea of vegetarianism is of immense value; it is based on great reverence for life.

— Rajneesh

Reason and justice tell me there's more love for humanity in electricity and steam than in chastity and vegetarianism.

— Anton Chekhov

If God wanted us to be vegetarians, he would have made broccoli a lot more fun to hunt!

— Anonymous

“Sister Carmelita says animals don't have souls" "Of course animals have souls, where did she get that idea?" "She said the Pope says." "The…

— Audrey Niffenegger

Almost always when I told someone I was writing a book about "eating animals", they assumed, even without knowing anything about my views, that…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

I know, in my soul, that to eat a creature who is raised to be eaten, and who never has a chance to be…

— Alice Walker