Vegetarianism Quotes

A human can be healthy without killing animals for food.

— Leo Tolstoy

We are the living graves of murdered beasts.

— George Bernard Shaw

Vegetarianism is a link to perfection and peace.

— River Phoenix

The ultimate tendency of liberalism is vegetarianism.

— Norman Mailer

vegetarianism is the taproot of humanitarianism.

— Leo Tolstoy

How can you eat anything with eyes?

— Will Keith Kellogg

A man of my spiritual intensity does not eat corpses.

— George Bernard Shaw

My body will not be a tomb for other creatures.

— Leonardo da Vinci

We are sick of war, we don't want to fight, And yet we gorge ourselves upon the dead.

— George Bernard Shaw

I choose not to make a graveyard of my body for the rotting corpses of dead animals.

— George Bernard Shaw

I wish that more and more adventurous young men would give up the gun in favour of the camera.

— Jawaharlal Nehru

The thought of two thousand people crunching celery at the same time horrified me.

— George Bernard Shaw

“It’s cool. No sword. See? No sword. Calm thoughts. Sea grass. Mama cows. Vegetarianism.”

— Rick Riordan

If appreciation and commendation were meat, most critics would be vegetarians.

— Olalekan A Adebumiti

If you knew how meat was made, youd probably lose your lunch.

— K. D. Lang

Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.

— Thomas Jefferson

Wilbur burst into tears. "I dont want to die," he moaned. "I want to stay alive, right here in my comfortable manure…

— E. B. White

“Because we cannot scrub our inner body we need to learn a few skills to help cleanse our tissues, organs, and mind.…

— Sebastian Pole

You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Vegetarianism serves as the criterion by which we know that the pursuit of moral perfection on the part of humanity is genuine…

— Leo Tolstoy

“It may be considered folly by common opinion but this refusal to destroy life unnecessarily, this reverence for it, must become a…

— Paul Brunton

I've been a vegetarian for years and years. I'm not judgemental about others who aren't, I just feel I cannot eat or…

— Drew Barrymore

Expecting the society to treat you as you treat it is like expecting the lion not to bite you that only because…

— Anonymous

We are the living graves of murdered beasts, slaughtered to satisfy our appetites. How can we hope in this world to attain…

— George Bernard Shaw

People had a general attitude towards someone who practices vegetarianism are soft & kind n have no fighting attitude…Food is only for…

— Goutham Aditya Devaguptapu

“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

If anyone wants to save the planet, all they have to do is just stop eating meat. That's the single most important…

— Anonymous

I became a vegetarian after realizing that animals feel afraid, cold, hungry and unhappy like we do. I feel very deeply about…

— Cesar Chavez

“Will you dance for me? Let your breasts roam for a moment -- I need to see how they dance.' 'Okay.' She…

— Nicholson Baker

Vegetarianism has nothing to do with religion: it is something basically scientific. It has nothing to do with morality, but it has…

— Rajneesh

I just could not stand the idea of eating meat - I really do think that it has made me calmer… People's…

— Kate Bush

Vegetarianism is not implicitly important for the mental progress or the intellectual development, unless it is supposed to be a remedy to…

— Franz Bardon

We stopped eating meat many years ago. During the course of a Sunday lunch we happened to look out of the kitchen…

— Linda McCartney

“Fasting followed by a vegetarian diet has a favorable influence on disease activity in some patients with rheumatoid arthritis. This effect cannot…

— Jens Kjeldsen-Kragh

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

“Sources of Plant Protein Grains and grain products, legumes (lentils and dried beans and peas such as kidney beans or chickpeas), starchy…

— Melissa Bernstein

“What struck me, in reading the reports from Sri Lanka, was the mild disgrace of belonging to our imperfectly evolved species in…

— Christopher Hitchens

“But any intuition that vegetarianism and humanitarianism go together was shattered in the 20th-century by the treatment of animals under Nazism.266 Hitler…

— Steven Pinker

“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

The smell of factory farms . . . many notice these places only when the odours reach their homes, affecting their own…

— Matthew Scully