If a man can control his body and mind and thereby refrains from eating animal flesh and wearing animal products, I say… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
“These folk are hewers of trees and hunters of beasts; therefore we are their unfriends, and if they will not depart we… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion. — William Ralph Inge Copy Share Image
I became a vegetarian at 15. I was always an animal lover and, as a teenager, became increasingly uncomfortable with the idea… — Laura Mennell 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
“Only a couple of weeks in the country and I was getting dangerously close to becoming what all chefs loathed—a vegetarian.” — Louise Miller Copy Share Image
Vegetarian food leaves a deep impression on our nature. If the whole world adopts vegetarianism, it can change the destiny of humankind. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Animals are nicer than humans and they're conscious beings. If you stick your grandmother in an oven, she will probably be tasty.… — Steven Morrissey Copy Share Image
Vegetarianism functioned as a purification. When you eat animals you are more under the law of necessity. You are heavy, you gravitate… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Dear Lord, I've been asked, nay commanded, to thank Thee for the Christmas turkey before us... a turkey which was no doubt… — Berkeley Breathed Copy Share Image
“To be a vegetarian is to disagree — to disagree with the course of things today. Starvation, world hunger, cruelty, waste, wars… — Isaac Bashevis Singer 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
No vegetarian has been able to achieve a single Nobel prize. It is a clear-cut condemnation of vegetarianism. Why do all the… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“When we lift our forks, we hang our hats somewhere. We set ourselves in one relationship or another to farmed animals, farmworkers,… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
One can quite understand vegetarianism. One can quite understand meat-eating. But it is difficult to understand why a person who is a… — B. R. Ambedkar Copy Share Image
“Something I've never been able to adapt to, to understand is how they can lavish such love and care on the animals… — Robert James Waller 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
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
Basically we should stop doing those things that are destructive to the environment, other creatures, and ourselves and figure out new ways… — Moby Copy Share Image
Vegetarianism is a conscious effort, a deliberate effort, to get out of the heaviness that keeps you tethered to the earth so… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
But ...meat eating in any form, in any manner, and in any place is unconditionally and once and for all prohibited ...Meat… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
It were much better that a sentient being should never have existed, than that it should have existed only to endure unmitigated… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
In order to satisfy one human stomach, so many lives are taken away. We must promote vegetarianism. It is extremely important. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
To be a vegetarian is to disagree - to disagree with the course of things today... starvation, cruelty - we must make… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
Even in the worm that crawls in the earth there glows a divine spark. When you slaughter a creature, you slaughter God. — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
I think the mother of all arguments against eating meat now is the climate change argument. Methane is a much more powerful… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
Anyone familiar with the numerous accounts of the Buddha's extraordinary compassion and reverence for living beings - for example his insistence that… — Philip Kapleau Copy Share Image
The wrongfulness, the immorality of eating animal food has been recognized by all mankind during all the conscious life of humanity. Why,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“If the body becomes a special focus for women's struggle for freedom then what is ingested is a logical initial locus for… — Carol J. Adams Copy Share Image
We have found ways . . . to torture and maim animals and make their lives a misery, almost a living hell… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Vegetarianism that is me. I don't eat meat. It's been over 10 years. Actually it's been 11 and a half years and… — Traci Bingham Copy Share Image
I venture to maintain that there are multitudes to whom the necessity of discharging the duties of a butcher would be so… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky Copy Share Image
Some of the best things about being a vegetarian include, of course, contributing towards the welfare of animals. Being a vegetarian can… — Laura Mennell Copy Share Image
“Through knowing death we can hold a beacon of love for every moment that has just passed, for every friend who has… — Sebastian Pole Copy Share Image
Vegetables contain more nutriment than an equal amount of dead flesh. This will sound a surprising and incredible statement to many people,… — Charles Webster Leadbeater Copy Share Image
It is beyond doubt that the chief motive of Vegetarianism is the humane one. Questions of hygiene and of economy both play… — Henry Stephens Salt Copy Share Image
The inhabitants are numerous and happy... Throuhout the country the people do not kill any living creature, nor drink intoxicating liquor, they… — Faxian Copy Share Image
With me, meditation is the only essential religion. And everything that follows it is virtue, because it comes of its own accord.… — 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
