How do we know that we have a right to kill creatures that we are so little above, as dogs, for our… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
I hold flesh-food to be unsuited to our species. We err in copying the lower animal world if we are superior to… — Mahatma Gandhi 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
If a person does not harm any living being...and does not kill or cause others to kill - that person is a… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
When people ask me why I don't eat meat or any other animal products, I say, 'Because they are unhealthy and they… — Casey Affleck Copy Share Image
Food affects the mind. For the practice of any kind of yoga, vegetarianism is absolutely necessary since it makes the mind more… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
People often say that humans have always eaten animals, as if this is a justification for continuing the practice. According to this… — 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
Hitler was a vegetarian. Just goes to show, vegetarianism, not always a good thing. Can in some extreme cases lead to genocide. — Bill Bailey Copy Share Image
The idea of vegetarianism is of immense value; it is based on great reverence for life. — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Reason and justice tell me there's more love for humanity in electricity and steam than in chastity and vegetarianism. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
If God wanted us to be vegetarians, he would have made broccoli a lot more fun to hunt! — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Sister Carmelita says animals don't have souls" "Of course animals have souls, where did she get that idea?" "She said the Pope… — Audrey Niffenegger Copy Share Image
Almost always when I told someone I was writing a book about "eating animals", they assumed, even without knowing anything about my… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
I know, in my soul, that to eat a creature who is raised to be eaten, and who never has a chance… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
To be nonviolent to human beings and to be a killer or enemy of the poor animals is Satan's philosophy. In this… — A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada Copy Share Image
I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
When we eat vegetarian foods, we needn't worry about what kind of disease our food died from; this makes a joyful meal! — John Harvey Kellogg Copy Share Image
“Before you rush off trying to see everything you can, educate yourself.” — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Men fed upon carnage, and drinking strong drinks, have all an impoisoned and acrid blood which drives them mad in a hundred… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
You won't hear me talk about my politics, you won't hear me talk about my vegetarianism, you won't hear me comment on… — Ian Mckellen Copy Share Image
You put a baby in a crib with an apple and a rabbit. If it eats the rabbit and plays with the… — Harvey Diamond Copy Share Image
I am oppressed with a dread of living forever. That is the only disadvantage of vegetarianism. — George Bernard Shaw 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
