Vegan Quotes
376 Vegan quotes by 205 unique authors
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Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not…
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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Those who wish to pet and baby wild animals 'love' them. But those who respect their natures and wish to let them live normal lives,…
— Edwin Way Teale
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The squirrel that you kill in jest, dies in earnest.
— Henry David Thoreau
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A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for…
— Leo Tolstoy
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Common sense is not so common.
— Voltaire
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Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.
— Voltaire
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It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
— Voltaire
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It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.
— Voltaire
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Vitamin D from mushrooms is not only vegan and vegetarian friendly, but you can prepare your own by exposing mushrooms to the summer sun.
— Paul Stamets
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I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will look upon the…
— Leonardo da Vinci
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Now I can look at you in peace; I don't eat you any more.
— Franz Kafka
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You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The thinking (person) must oppose all cruel customs, no matter how deeply rooted in tradition and surrounded by a halo. When we have a choice,…
— Albert Schweitzer
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I have no doubt that it is part of the destiny of the human race in it's gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals.
— Henry David Thoreau
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A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in…
— Thomas Paine
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Never, never be afraid to do what's right, especially if the well-being of a person or animal is at stake. Society's punishments are small compared…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Vegetarians, and their Hezbollah-like splinter faction, the vegans ... are the enemy of everything good and decent in the human spirit.
— Anthony Bourdain
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In their behavior toward creatures, all men are Nazis. Human beings see oppression vividly when they're the victims. Otherwise they victimize blindly and without a…
— Isaac Bashevis Singer
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Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome…
— Marcus Aurelius
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Even as a junkie I stayed true [to vegetarianism] - 'I shall have heroin, but I shan't have a hamburger.' What a sexy little paradox.
— Russell Brand
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The assumption that animals are without rights, and the illusion that our treatment of them has no moral significance, is a positively outrageous example of…
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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By eating meat we share the responsibility of climate change, the destruction of our forests, and the poisoning of our air and water. The simple…
— Nhat Hanh
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At the moment our human world is based on the suffering and destruction of millions of non-humans. To perceive this and to do something to…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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The very beginning of Genesis tells us that God created man in order to give him dominion over fish and fowl and all creatures. Of…
— Milan Kundera
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A world without right or wrong was a world that did not want itself, anything other than itself, or anything not those two things, but…
— Tao Lin
Who Wrote These Vegan Quotes
205 authors contributed a total of 376 Vegan Quotes, led by these top contributors: