If experiments on animals were abandoned on grounds of compassion, mankind would have made a fundamental advance. — Richard Wagner Copy Share Image
Better a meal of vegetables where there is love than a fattened calf with hatred — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To avoid causing terror to living beings, let the disciple refrain from eating meat. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
We manage to swallow flesh, only because we do not think of the cruel and sinful thing we do. — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
The idea of vegetarianism is of immense value; it is based on great reverence for life. — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“Mankind does not have dominion over the Earth, mankind has a relationship with the Earth.” — J.Adam Snyder Copy Share Image
Ethics is in its unqualified form extended responsibility with regard to everything that has life. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The most energetic workers I have encountered in my world travels are the vegetarian miners of Chile. — Charles Darwin 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
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
“Almost all our health concerns can be traced back to our belly. Ensure a healthy gut and the rest will take care… — Behzad Azargoshasb 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
Unless we have courage to recognize cruelty for what it is-whether its victim is human or animal-we cannot expect things to be… — Rachel Carson 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
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
Vegetarianism should not be anything moral or religious. It is a question of aesthetics: one's sensitivity, one's respect, one's reverence for life. — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Jainism is the first religion that has made vegetarianism a fundamental necessity for transforming consciousness. And they are right. Killing just to… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
People think of animals as if they were vegetables, and that is not right. We have to change the way people think… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
One who loves Krishna will give Him whatever He wants, and he avoids offering anything which is undesirable or unasked for. Thus,… — A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada Copy Share Image
The kind of funny irony is that a lot of people talk about ethical meat eating as if it's a way to… — Jonathan Safran Foer 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
“The beef industry has contributed to more American deaths than all the wars of this century, all natural disasters, and all automobile… — Neal Barnard 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
If he be really and seriously seeking to live a good life, the first thing from which he will abstain will always… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“I don't believe vegans (or vegetarians) who still get their (packaged, preservative/chemical-ridden) food from industrial food systems have any righteous ground to… — Brian Awehali Copy Share Image
Perhaps in the back of our minds we already understand, without all the science I've discussed, that something terribly wrong is happening.… — Jonathan Safran Foer 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
Vegetarianism is a link to perfection and peace. But it's a small link. There are lots of other issues: apartheid , vivisection,… — River Phoenix Copy Share Image
I do not see any reason why animals should be slaughtered to serve as human diet when there are so many substitutes.… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
“My view [is] that what morality boils down to is, 'Don’t harm, and do help.' And now the question is, 'Can creatures… — Shelly Kagan Copy Share Image
“God loves and cares for creation and has the right to expect this loving care be replicated by humans. Creation exists, not… — Richard A. Young Copy Share Image
“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 God wanted us to be vegetarians, he would have made broccoli a lot more fun to hunt! — Anonymous 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
One who kill, own life will be shortened; One who harms, will be injured even more — Akkineni Nagarjuna Copy Share Image
When a human being kills an animal for food, he is neglecting his own hunger for justice. — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
For innumerable reasons, Mahamati, the Bodhisattva, whose nature is compassion, is not to eat any meat. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Even if we cannot be completely non-voilent, by being vegetarian we are going in the direction of non-voilence — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
In all the round world there is no meat. There used to be. But now we cannot stand the thought of slaughterhouses. — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
![“My view [is] that what morality boils down to is, 'Don’t harm, and do help.' And now the question is, 'Can creatures like chickens and cows be harmed?' And the answer is, 'Of course they can.' Consequently, I think it’s immoral to harm them. And that seems to me to provide a very strong moral…” quote by Shelly Kagan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/45e/shelly-kagan-90612_animal_my-view-is-that-what-morality-boils-down_2727219.jpg)
