Bodhisattva Quote by Gautama Buddha

When we hunt or fish, we deliberately kill a defenseless being who wishes us no harm. This is a direct violation of the First…

— Norm Phelps

For innumerable reasons, Mahamati, the Bodhisattva, whose nature is compassion, is not to eat any meat.

— Gautama Buddha

“Mahabharata states: “What we eat in this life, eats us in the life after death.” We must not forget the chain of karma: Compassion…

— Gabriel Cousens

The beginning of mindful eating is the realization that eating meat is not about the meat-eater; it is about the animals who are tormented…

— Norm Phelps

To avoid causing terror to living beings, let the disciple refrain from eating meat... the food of the wise is that which is consumed…

— Gautama Buddha

“There is a danger in becoming an overly perfected meat eater only—a person who becomes spiritually fat on the meat and can become critical…

— Perry Stone

I am conscious that meat eatingis not in accordance with the finer feelings,and I abstain from it whenever I can.

— Albert Schweitzer

Eating meat is a leftover of the greatest brutality [killing]; the transition to vegetarianism is the first and most natural consequence of enlightenment.

— Leo Tolstoy

I never eat meat as I think it is wrong to deprive animals of their life when they are so difficult to chew anyway

— Leonora Carrington

Most people don’t question the practice of eating meat. Many of these people care about animals and the environment, some deeply. But for some…

— Brian Greene

“The reality, as I now see it, is that death happens, and that death often happens in ways that seem horrific. Refusing to eat…

— Joey Lott