Vegetarian Quotes · Page 14

Animals can't really voice their opinion. We feel as though we can be on of the spokespeople on their behalf.

— River Phoenix

“Only a couple of weeks in the country and I was getting dangerously close to becoming what all chefs loathed—a vegetarian.”

— Louise Miller

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

If you want to eat more vegetarian food, you don't have to become a vegetarian. It doesn't have to be an identity…

— Damaris Phillips

We don't live the lives of Eskimos. We don't need to kill animals for fashion.

— Charlize Theron

Sure! Why should any experts be the arbiters... That's like telling someone they can't be a vegetarian.

— Anonymous

I went vegan because it was a willpower challenge. I've been vegetarian, I've been pescetarian, and vegan was the next thing.

— Mya

Maybe the world would be better if people didn't hate so much and kill animals.

— Craig Nicholls

It is significant to note that those who live on vegetarian food are less prone to diseases, whereas non-vegetarians are subject to…

— Sathya Sai Baba

We don't usually think of what we eat as a matter of ethics. Stealing, lying, hurting people - these acts are obviously…

— Peter Singer

The United Nations did a study just over two years ago, and that blew my mind. I started thinking that if people…

— Emily Deschanel

I grew up a vegetarian. Then, because I grew up in the states, I started slowly eating meat. First it was bologna…

— Padma Lakshmi

In high school I became a vegetarian more times than I can now remember, most often as an effort to claim some…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

There is no disease, bodily or mental, which adoption of vegetable diet, and pure water has not infallibly mitigated, wherever the experiment…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

I try to eat vegetarian, though I'm not very good at it, and it's a work in progress. But we basically are…

— Greg van Eekhout

Alas, what wickedness to swallow flesh into our own flesh, to fatten our greedy bodies by cramming in other bodies, to have…

— Pythagoras

“The main finding was that vegan and lacto-ovo vegetarian diets were associated with a nearly one-half reduction in risk of type 2…

— Serena Tonstad

One who loves Krishna will give Him whatever He wants, and he avoids offering anything which is undesirable or unasked for. Thus,…

— A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

I'm not a vegetarian by any means; I eat fish. But the problem with shark finning is they catch the shark, cut…

— Bethany Hamilton

The prevalence of the GVP (grilled vegetable plate) as the sole vegetarian option at many restaurants is offensive for a whole host…

— Cord Jefferson

“Some studies have shown that hypertension occurs less frequently among vegetarians than among nonvegetarians, regardless of body weight or sodium intake. Intake…

— Melissa Bernstein

“Dr. Jens Kjeldsen-Kragh, M.D., of the Institute of Immunology and Rheumatology at the National Rheumatism Hospital of Oslo, conducted a study about…

— H.K. Bakhru

Because I'm a chef, I eat out frequently, so it's hard for me to control what I consume in terms of calories.…

— Masaharu Morimoto

I understand, of course, that grain-fed meat is not the cause of the world hunger problem-and eating some of it doesn't directly…

— Frances Moore Lappé

I'm married to a vegetarian, so if ever we go out to dinner, I go for kidneys.

— Nicola Walker

After 10 years of eating vegetarian, I tried my boyfriend's. I was overwhelmed. It was orgasmic.

— Jessica Szohr

Taking all vegetable-eating nations together . . . they are a larger and much better formed race than the flesh eaters.

— Sylvester Graham

Animal factories are one more sign of the extent to which our technological capacities have advanced faster than our ethics.

— Peter Singer

These days, I'm a hypocritical, philosophical vegetarian. Vegetarianism would be the right choice, but I really, really love meat.

— Tim Minchin

The world's strongest animals are plant eaters. Gorillas, Buffaloes, Elephants and me.

— Patrik Baboumian

Becoming vegan is the most important and direct change we can immediately make to save the planet and its species.

— Chris Hedges

The really great thing about my shoe store is that there's not one dead animal in it.

— Stella McCartney

For those who are still merely vegetarian and not yet vegan, I ask, what in heaven's name are you waiting for?

— Howard Lyman

Nothing spoils lunch any quicker than a rogue meatball rampaging through your spaghetti.

— Jim Davis

I am really good at making Top Ramen. I also love it when my mom makes vegetarian lasagna for me.

— Zendaya

Without the perfect sympathy with the animals around them, no gentleman's education, no Christian education, could be of any possible use.

— John Ruskin

“The question is not, "Can they reason?" nor, "Can they talk?" but "Can they suffer?”

— Anonymous

I've been a vegetarian, I've been a Paleo, and now I believe in the everything-in-moderation diet.

— Gretchen Bleiler

If a kid ever realized what was involved in factory farming, they would never touch meat again.

— James Cromwell

But vegetarians can eat this...Because intestines aren't even meat, Liz. They're just sh$*.

— Elizabeth Gilbert