Animal Quote by Philip Kapleau

We are opposed to all cruelty, so as advocates of non-violence, opponents of oppression, people who abhor the cruelty inherent in slaughtering we say…

— Ingrid Newkirk

What people need to understand is, that if they are eating animals, they are promoting cruelty to animals.

— Pamela Anderson

It is not how we breed, keep and kill animals for human consumption that has been the impetus for vegetarianism for thousands of years.…

— Colleen Patrick-Goudreau

In most of the world, it is accepted that if animals are to be killed for food, they should be killed without suffering.

— Peter Singer

People may hope that the meat they buy came from an animal who died without pain, but they do not really want to know…

— Peter Singer

You take this meat eating. Many people have to kill the animals because of your non-vegetarianism. You are responsible for the death of those…

— Sathya Sai Baba

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

There is this really intimate connection that people have with the animals they're going to eat. A lot of people who eat meat say…

— Novella Carpenter

“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

“You cannot kill and eat animals and expect to help them, much less challenge the food system that profits from our choice to keep…

— James McWilliams

...eating animals involves an intentional decision to participate in the suffering and death of nonhumans where there is no plausible moral justification.

— Gary L. Francione

“We generally accept that it's natural for carnivorous wild animals to kill other animals in order to live. But people don't often think (or…

— Marc Bekoff