Compassionate Quote by Rajneesh

I became a vegetarian because I was persuaded that life is as valid for other creatures as it is for humans. I do not…

— Helen and Scott Nearing

Becoming a vegetarian is not merely a symbolic gesture. Nor is it an attempt to isolate oneself from the ugly realities of the world,…

— Peter Singer

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

Vegetarianism is a way of living consciously on the planet.

— Amy Smart

As far as being a vegetarian, it's a moral thing, a health thing, a conscious thing - a combination of all. I think it's…

— Gza

After a conversation with someone that went on all night, but I didn't take much persuading, and the next day I was a vegetarian.…

— Martin Shaw

Vegetarianism should not be anything moral or religious. It is a question of aesthetics: one's sensitivity, one's respect, one's reverence for life.

— Rajneesh

The most important part of vegetarianism is the real shift in consciousness that takes place. There is a true correlation between our food choices…

— Peter Burwash

The biblical case for vegetarianism does not rest on the view that killing may never be allowable in the eyes of God, rather on…

— Andrew Linzey

Veganism is simply letting compassion guide our choice of food. As such, it is a basic Buddhist practice that ought to be expected of…

— Norm Phelps

Vegetarianism functioned as a purification. When you eat animals you are more under the law of necessity. You are heavy, you gravitate more towards…

— Anonymous

Food affects the mind. For the practice of any kind of yoga, vegetarianism is absolutely necessary since it makes the mind more pure and…

— Ramana Maharshi