Best Vegetarian Thoughts
450 Vegetarian quotes by 302 unique authors
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It is strange to hear people talk of Humanitarianism, who are members of societies for the prevention of cruelty to children and animals, and who…
— Unknown Author
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Usually, the first thing a country does in the course of economic development is to introduce a lot of livestock. Our data are showing that…
— T. Colin Campbell
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If experiments on animals were abandoned on grounds of compassion, mankind would have made a fundamental advance.
— Richard Wagner
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It were much better that a sentient being should never have existed, than that it should have existed only to endure unmitigated misery.
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Your choice of diet can influence your long term health prospects more than any other action you might take.
— C. Everett Koop
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Basically we should stop doing those things that are destructive to the environment, other creatures, and ourselves and figure out new ways of existing.
— Moby
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Plant life instead of animal food is the keystone of regeneration. Jesus used bread instead of flesh and wine in place of blood at the…
— Richard Wagner
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The most energetic workers I have encountered in my world travels are the vegetarian miners of Chile.
— Charles Darwin
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For the most part, we carnivores do not eat other carnivores. We prefer to eat our vegetarian friends.
— Robert Breault
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Vegetarianism can easily reach religious proportions. Refraining from meat on moral grounds serves to dignify feelings of guilt toward sad-eyed, furry creatures and substitutes righteousness…
— Bill Griffith
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It is a great delusion to suppose that flesh-meat of any kind is essential to health. Considerably more than three parts of the work in…
— Catherine Booth
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It is not consistent with truth that a man should sacrifice half of his stomach only to God-that he should be sober in drinking, but…
— Tertullian
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The vegetarian movement ought to fill with gladness the souls of those who have at heart the realization of God's kingdom upon earth, not because…
— Leo Tolstoy
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I'm a post-modern vegetarian. I eat meat ironically.
— Bill Bailey
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I eat mostly vegetarian. I love meat, but I think it should be enjoyed on occasion - like cheesecake or blackouts.
— Nadia Giosia
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Many refined people will not kill a fly, but eat an ox.
— Unknown Author
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I am oppressed with a dread of living forever. That is the only disadvantage of vegetarianism.
— George Bernard Shaw
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The parlour cars and Pullmans are packed also with scented assassins, salad-eaters who murder on milk.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Some determined advocates of the vegetable system maintain, that the teeth and stomach of the monkey correspond, in structure, very closely with that of man,…
— Sarah Josepha Hale
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Having the USDA design your food pyramid is like having Al Capone do your taxes.
— Caldwell Esselstyn
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I know the dark delight of being strange, The penalty of difference in the crowd, The loneliness of wisdom among fools...
— Claude McKay
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Whenever he was out of luck and a little down-hearted, he would fall to mourning over the loss of a wonderful cat he used to…
— Mark Twain
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Once we experience and feel this inter-dependence of all living beings,we will cease to hurt, humiliate, exploit and kill another. We will want to free…
— Unknown Author
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Things derive their being and nature by mutual dependence and are nothing in themselves.
— Akkineni Nagarjuna
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An elementary particle is not an independently existing, unanalyzable entity. It is, in essence, a set of relationships that reaches outward to other things.
— Henry Stapp
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