“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
If there would come a voice from God saying, 'I'm against vegetarianism!' I would say, 'Well, I am for it!' This is… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
I did it for political, moral reasons, thinking that I was making this great sacrifice, but it was absolutely necessary; I was… — Alicia Silverstone Copy Share Image
Let us ask what is best - not what is customary. Let us love temperance - let us be just - let… — Seneca the Younger 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
Our food system takes abundant grain,which people can't afford,and shrinks it into meat,which better-off people will pay for. — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
If you could see or feel the suffering you wouldn't think twice. Give back life. Don't eat meat. — Kim Basinger 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
“For all malignant cancers, both fish eaters and vegetarians and vegans combined had significantly lower mortality than regular meat eaters [HR: 0.76… — Paul Appleby Copy Share Image
I nearly always find, when I ask a vegetarian if he is a socialist, or a socialist if he is a vegetarian,… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Copy Share Image
“Humans do have authority over creation—but it is a delegated authority to care for animals as God would and not to destroy… — Richard A. Young 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
I don't teach vegetarianism; it is a by-product of meditation. Wherever meditation has happened, people have become vegetarian, always, for thousands of… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Life in its infinite forms exists as one organic unity. We are part of it: the part should feel reverence for the… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
When it's all said and done we will lose a piece to a carnivorous vegetarian — Tori Amos 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
The obligations of law and equity reach only to mankind; but kindness and beneficence should be extended to the creatures of every… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
As well consult a butcher on the value of vegetarianism as a doctor on the worth of vaccination. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Oh, my fellow men, do not defile your bodies with sinful foods. We have corn, we have apples bending down the branches… — Pythagoras Copy Share Image
To consider yourself an environmentalist and still eat meat is like saying you're a philanthropist who doesn't give to charity. — Howard Lyman Copy Share Image
What is it that should trace the insuperable line? ...The question is not, Can they reason? nor Can they talk? but, Can… — Jeremy Bentham 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
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
