One who, while seeking happiness, oppresses with violence other living beings who also desire happinesss, will not find happiness hereafter. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Therefore, vegetarianism alone can give us the quality of com-passion, which distinguishes man from the rest of the animal world. — Morarji Desai Copy Share Image
What is it that should trace the insuperable line? ...The question is not, Can they reason? nor Can they talk? but, Can… — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
To consider yourself an environmentalist and still eat meat is like saying you're a philanthropist who doesn't give to charity. — Howard Lyman Copy Share Image
Hitler was a vegetarian. Just goes to show, vegetarianism, not always a good thing. Can in some extreme cases lead to genocide. — Bill Bailey Copy Share Image
It is my view that the vegetarian manner of living, by its purely physical effect on the human temperament, would most beneficially… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Personally, I don't think pure vegetarianism is a healthy lifestyle. I've often wondered to myself: Does a vegetarian look forward to dinner,… — Julia Child 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
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
“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
“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
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
“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
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
India introduced Britain to vegetarianism - see Tristram Stuart's excellent first book on this - and it is possible, indeed all too… — Neel Mukherjee 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
We consume the carcasses of creatures of like appetites, passions and organs with our own, and fill the slaughterhouses daily with screams… — Robert Louis Stevenson 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've learned so much from my ups and downs as a life long vegan. I'm really excited to share my experiences and… — Ursula Escher 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
“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
If you declare that you are naturally designed for such a diet, then first kill for yourself what you want to eat.… — Plutarch 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
These days, I'm a hypocritical, philosophical vegetarian. Vegetarianism would be the right choice, but I really, really love meat. — Tim Minchin Copy Share Image
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
If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be vegetarian. We feel better about ourselves and better about the animals, knowing we're not… — Linda McCartney Copy Share Image
The factory farm is . . . an obvious moral evil so sickening and horrendous. . . All this so we can… — Matthew Scully Copy Share Image
'Thou shalt not kill' does not apply to murder of one's own kind only, but to all living beings and this commandment… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
It is necessary to correct the error that vegetarianism has made us weak in mind, or passive or inert in action. I… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
If a person does not harm any living being...and does not kill or cause others to kill - that person is a… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
“As per the law of karma, that which is your meat today, this dear beloved animal will make mincemeat of you tomorrow.… — Fakeer Ishavardas Copy Share Image
All normal people love meat. If I went to a barbeque and there was no meat, I would say 'Yo Goober! Where's… — Dan Castellaneta 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
We should remember in our dealings with animals that they are a sacred trust to us from our Heavenly Father. They are… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
“A peculiarity of the nature of your mind is that, in contrast to your physical constitution (dosha) that is fixed from birth,… — Sebastian Pole Copy Share Image
The distinction between meat and other animal products is total nonsense. Vegetarianism is a morally incoherent position. If you regard animals as… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In every respect, vegans appear to enjoy equal or better health in comparison to both vegetarians and non-vegetarians. — T. Colin Campbell Copy Share Image
But for the sake of some little mouthful of flesh we deprive a soul of the sun and light, and of that… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
He who has renounced all violence towards all living beings, weak or strong, who neither kills nor causes others to kill -… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
