Abstinence Quote by Albert Einstein

“If a man aspires to a righteous life, his first act of abstinence if from injury to animals.”

— Leo Tolstoy

If a man earnestly seeks a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from animal food.

— Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy

If a man's aspirations towards a righteous life are serious.. .if he earnestly and sincerely seeks a righteous life, his first act of abstinence…

— Leo Tolstoy

To a man whose mind is free there is something even more intolerable in the sufferings of animals than in the sufferings of man.…

— Romain Rolland

It is horrible! It is not the suffering and the death of the animals that is horrible, but the fact that the man without…

— Leo Tolstoy

In the killing of animals there is cruelty, rage, and the accustoming of oneself to the bad habit of shedding innocent blood.

— Joseph Albo

Man has done a lot to make himself dangerous and animals get the worst of all of it. But then, man too is an…

— Anonymous

“A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely…

— Leo Tolstoy

“There has been no single influence which has done more to prevent man from finding God and rebuilding his character, has done more to…

— Fulton J. Sheen

If he be really and seriously seeking to live a good life, the first thing from which he will abstain will always be the…

— Leo Tolstoy

The moral duty of man consists of imitating the moral goodness and beneficence of God, manifested in the creation towards all his creatures. Everything…

— Thomas Paine

Only to the rational animal is it given to follow voluntarily what happens; but simply to follow is a necessity imposed on all.

— Marcus Aurelius