Flesh Quote by Mahatma Gandhi

I hold flesh-food to be unsuited to our species. We err in copying the lower animal world if we are superior to it.

— Mahatma Gandhi

It is necessary to correct the error that vegetarianism has made us weak in mind, or passive or inert in action. I do not…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Flesh-eating by humans is unnecessary, irrational, anatomically unsound, unhealthy, unhygienic, uneconomic, unaesthetic, unkind and unethical. May I elaborate?

— Helen and Scott Nearing

Meat is necessary when there is hard physical work to be done, or in a very cold climate, or when edible plants cannot be…

— Anonymous

Flesh eating is simply immoral, as it involves the performance of an act which is contrary to moral feeling: By killing, man suppresses in…

— Leo Tolstoy

Note that the eating of flesh is not only physically against nature, but it also makes us spiritually coarse and gross by reason of…

— Plutarch

To see the convulsions, agonies and tortures of a poor fellow-creature, whom they cannot restore nor recompense, dying to gratify luxury and tickle callous…

— George Cheyne

We are not just flesh and blood. And our hungers are not going to be set aside as just flesh and blood.

— Maya Angelou

We do not mark out any precise line to be followed in diet; but we do say that in countries where there are fruits,…

— Ellen G. White

When human body itself is made of flesh, where is the need to consume the flesh of birds and animals? You should partake of…

— Sathya Sai Baba

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…

— Catherine Booth

Food that is necessary for man’s existence is as sacred as life itself. Everything that is indispensable for its preservation is the common property…

— Maximilien Robespierre