“A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal… — Leo Tolstoy 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
Man prays for mercy, but is unwilling to extend it to others. Why then should man expect mercy from God? It is… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
“Well, then, Otter, of course I don’t like Bundt cake. It has eggs in it. Baby chicken eggs. You don’t see chickens… — TJ Klune 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
A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe; a part limited in time and space. He experiences… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Living entity is food for another living entity, it does not mean that I shall eat my children also. There is discretion. — A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada Copy Share Image
Every man who has ever been earnest to preserve his higher or poetic faculties in the best condition, has been particularly inclined… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Love is at the heart of the world, just as it is at the heart of your life. Your relationships with your… — Sebastian Pole 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
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
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
“Several previous researches reported that stroke incidence is greater among participants with a higher consumption of red and processed meats because they… — Kyuwoong Kim Copy Share Image
“Meditation is both the symbol and expression of our intention to grow. Sitting still, alone with our thoughts and feelings, we can… — Sebastian Pole 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
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
He who, seeking his own happiness, punishes or kills beings who also long for happiness, will not find happiness after his death. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
“Like all pacifists, Zweig evaded the question of how to protect the peaceful sheep from the ravening wolves, no doubt in the… — Theodore Dalrymple Copy Share Image
Truly man is the king of beasts, for his brutality exceeds them. We live by the death of others. We are burial… — Leonardo da Vinci 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
Since I first went to India twenty some years ago, there's been a palpable change. There's now pizza everywhere, meat is much… — Neal Barnard Copy Share Image
I can give you 150 philosophies about converting to vegetarianism, but you will only convert if your body feels right. I, for… — Rahul Dev 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
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
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
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
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
I played around with vegetarianism back in the '70s. One thing, my physiology just got to have animal protein. I get hypoglycemic,… — Temple Grandin 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
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
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
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
There is not a single argument nor a single fact that can be offered in favour of flesh eating that cannot be… — Herbert M. Shelton Copy Share Image
I am not a vegetarian. For some time, I tried to be a semi-vegetarian, eating only fish, birds, and no red meat,… — Varg Vikernes 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
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
By all that is sacred in our hope for the human race, I conjure those who love happiness and truth to give… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
“Given that eating animals is in absolutely no way necessary for my family — unlike some in the world, we have easy… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered beasts, how can we expect any ideal conditions on this earth?” — George Bernard Shaw 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
