Animal Quote by Henry David Thoreau

“The repugnance to animal food is not the effect of experience, but it is instinct.”

— Henry David Thoreau

It is true that the reluctance to abstain from animal food, in those who have been long accustomed to its stimulus, is so great…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

The resort to human flesh, often after months of ever-increasing hunger pangs, appeared to be an animallike reaction without painful emotional overtones.

— Pitirim Sorokin

“We are not encouraged, on a daily basis, to pay careful attention to the animals we eat. On the contrary, the meat, dairy, and…

— Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson

Food conditions the nature of the mind. Mind guides the thinking. Thinking results in action. Actions lead to commensurate or matching results and effects.…

— Sathya Sai Baba

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

I lay there knowing something eerie ties us to the world of animals. Sometimes the animals pull you backward into it. You share hunger…

— Barry Lopez

“Food engages sight and sound and texture, not just scent and taste. And food is the most elementary expression of human connection; love without…

— Joanne Harris

Some People are not to be persuaded to taste of any Creatures they have daily seen and been acquainted with, while they were alive;…

— Bernard de Mandeville

“Your perception of meat being nice is blurred by the likely fact that you are excluded from participating in, or even witnessing the untimely…

— Mango Wodzak

Let the advocate of animal food, force himself to a decisive experiment on its fitness, and as Plutarch recommends, tear a living lamb with…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Intellectually, human beings and animals may be different, but it's pretty obvious that animals have a rich emotional life and that they feel joy…

— Moby