“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
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
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
“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
With my time in the limelight, I regret that I didn't use it more to push vegetarianism. I support vegetarian options in… — Bernhard Goetz 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
“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
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
Pythagoras was the first to introduce vegetarianism to the West. It is of profound depth for man to learn how to live… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Vegetarians, dropping meat, tend to fill up with too much starch. This leaves them no more healthy than meat-eaters, with constipation, indigestion,… — Helen and Scott Nearing Copy Share Image
The biblical case for vegetarianism does not rest on the view that killing may never be allowable in the eyes of God,… — Andrew Linzey Copy Share Image
Flesh eating is simply immoral, as it involves the performance of an act which is contrary to moral feeling: By killing, man… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“That is the way with all of your kind… It is how you are made; you must all strive to claw your… — Iain M. Banks Copy Share Image
You take this meat eating. Many people have to kill the animals because of your non-vegetarianism. You are responsible for the death… — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
“But this practice [vegetarianism], in which youthful love of austerity finds charm, calls for attentions more complicated than those of culinary refinement… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
The indifference, callousness and contempt that so many people exhibit toward animals is evil first because it results in great suffering in… — Albert Einstein 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
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
You won't hear me talk about my politics, you won't hear me talk about my vegetarianism, you won't hear me comment on… — Ian Mckellen Copy Share Image
My perspective of veganism was most affected by learning that the veal calf is a by-product of dairying, and that in essence… — Rynn Berry Copy Share Image
Flesh-eating by humans is unnecessary, irrational, anatomically unsound, unhealthy, unhygienic, uneconomic, unaesthetic, unkind and unethical. May I elaborate? — Helen and Scott Nearing 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
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
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
“Possessing strength and stillness is a sign of balance: power and serenity combined in one moment. It’s challenging enough to hold either… — Sebastian Pole Copy Share Image
I am determined not to kill, not to let others kill, and not to support any act of killing in the world,… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
Every time we sit down to eat, we make a choice: Please choose vegetarianism. Do it for animals. Do it for the… — Alec Baldwin 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
“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
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
When I was old enough to realize all meat was killed, I saw it as an irrational way of using our power,… — River Phoenix Copy Share Image
“Vegetarianism is always the product of scarcity, of religion, or of ideology, including nutritional fads and fashions.” — Jeffrey Steingarten 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
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
The vegetarian movement ought to fill with gladness the souls of those who have at heart the realization of God's kingdom upon… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
When about 16 Years of Age, I happened to meet with a Book written by one Tryon, recommending a Vegetable Diet. I… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
When a human kills an animal for food, he is neglecting his own hunger for justice. Man prays for mercy, but is… — Isaac Bashevis Singer 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
Vegetarianism has nothing to do with religion: it is something basically scientific. It has nothing to do with morality, but it has… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Vegetarianism is not implicitly important for the mental progress or the intellectual development, unless it is supposed to be a remedy to… — Franz Bardon Copy Share Image