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
Discussing vaccination with a doctor is like discussing vegetarianism with a butcher. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The thought of two thousand people crunching celery at the same time horrified me. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
If you step back and look at the data, the optimum amount of red meat you eat should be zero. — Walter Willett Copy Share Image
I was in a sushi bar and it dawned on me - how could I discriminate between a cow and a fish? — Carre Otis 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
Anyone who has accustomed himself to regard the life of any living creature as worthless is in danger of arriving also at… — Albert Schweitzer 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
Alas, what wickedness to swallow flesh into our own flesh, to fatten our greedy bodies by cramming in other bodies, to have… — Pythagoras Copy Share Image
I have made my own choice, which is vegetarianism, but it's not the choice I'm imposing on anybody else. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
I do feel that spiritual progress does demand at some stage that we should cease to kill our fellow creatures for the… — Mahatma Gandhi 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
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
We cannot separate ourselves from those whom we call the 'lower' animals. They are lower in the scale of evolution, but they,… — Dada Vaswani Copy Share Image
In all the round world of Utopia there is no meat. There used to be, but now we cannot stand the thought… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
It is strange to hear people talk of Humanitarianism, who are members of societies for the prevention of cruelty to children and… — Otoman Zar-Adusht Ha'nish 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
My mother was convinced, and on this head I have retained her firm belief, that to kill animals for the purpose of… — Alphonse de Lamartine Copy Share Image
That the object of the Brahmins in giving up beef-eating was to snatch away from the Buddhist Bhikshus the supremacy they had… — B. R. Ambedkar Copy Share Image
The average age (longevity) of a meat eater is 63. I am on the verge of 85 and still work as hard… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“My refusing to eat flesh occasioned an inconveniency, and I was frequently chided for my singularity, but, with this lighter repast, I… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
... man was not born a carnivorous animal, but born to live on the fruits and herbs that the earth grows. I… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“If we take the position that an assessment that veganism is morally preferable to vegetarianism is not possible because we are all… — GaryLFrancione 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
My situation is a solemn one: life is offered to me on the condition of eating beefsteaks. But death is better than… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I just could not stand the idea of eating meat - I really do think that it has made me calmer… People's… — Kate Bush Copy Share Image