Vegetarianism Quotes - Page 2

• My refusing to eat flesh occasioned an inconveniency, and I was frequently chid for my singularity.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Flesh, Vegan, Vegetarian Health

  Benjamin Franklin, Ormond Seavey (1998). “Autobiography and Other Writings”, p.17, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Vegetarian food leaves a deep impression on our nature. If the whole world adopts vegetarianism, it can change the destiny of humankind.

  Albert Einstein

  Destiny, World, Vegan

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• I did it for political, moral reasons, thinking that I was making this great sacrifice, but it was absolutely necessary; I was not going to contribute to the violence in the world anymore.

  Alicia Silverstone

  Sacrifice, Thinking, Political

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• A woman gains status when she refuses to see anything killed to be put on her back. Then she’s truly beautiful.

  Doris Day

  Beautiful, Animal, Gains

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• Truly man is the king of beasts, for his brutality exceeds them. We live by the death of others. We are burial places.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Kings, Animal, Men

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• The thinking (person) must oppose all cruel customs, no matter how deeply rooted in tradition and surrounded by a halo. When we have a choice, we must avoid bringing torment and injury into the life of another.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Nature, Philosophical, Animal

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• Unless we have courage to recognize cruelty for what it is - whether its victim is human or animal - we cannot expect things to be much better in the world.

  Rachel Carson

  Animal, World, Vivisection

  "Rachel Carson: Legacy and Challenge", ed. Lisa H. Sideris and Kathleen Dean Moore Albany: State University of New York Press, (p. 102), 2008.

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• I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Time, Men, Compassion

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• We cannot have peace among men whose hearts find delight in killing any living creature.

  Rachel Carson

  Life, Peace, Heart

  Paul Brooks, Rachel Carson (1972). “The house of life: Rachel Carson at work”

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• Vegetarianism functioned as a purification. When you eat animals you are more under the law of necessity. You are heavy, you gravitate more towards the earth. When you are a vegetarian you are light and you are more under the law of grace, under the law of power, and you start gravitating towards the sky.

  Rajneesh

  Animal, Light, Law

  Rajneesh (Bhagwan Shree), Swami Krishna Prem (1984). “From R to Z”

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• universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Friendship, Compassion, Animal

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.8, Publishdrive

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• 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

  Religious, Reverence For Life, Moral

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• Now I can look at you in peace; I don't eat you any more.

  Franz Kafka

  Animal, Compassion, Vegan Food

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• If beef is your idea of 'real food for real people,' you'd better live real close to a real good hospital.

  Neal Barnard

  Real, Animal, Rights

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• There is no fundamental difference between man and animals in their ability to feel pleasure and pain, happiness, and misery.

  Charles Darwin

  Pain, Animal, Men

  Charles Darwin (2015). “Darwin on Evolution: Words of Wisdom from the Father of Evolution”, p.23, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• I can't think of anything better in the world to be but a vegan.

  Alicia Silverstone

  Thinking, Vegetarian Diet, World

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• Killing an animal to make a coat is sin. It wasn't meant to be, and we have no right to do it.

  Doris Day

  Animal, Coats, Sin

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• In order to satisfy one human stomach, so many lives are taken away. We must promote vegetarianism. It is extremely important.

  Dalai Lama

  Life, Taken, Order

  His Holiness the Dalai Lama (2000). “The Transformed Mind: Reflections on Truth, Love and Happiness”, p.57, Penguin UK

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• Vegetarianism is a way of life that we should all move toward for economic survival, physical well-being and spiritual integrity.

  Thomas Berry

  Spiritual, Integrity, Moving

  "Food for the Spirit: Vegetarianism and the World Religions". Book by Steven Rosen ("Critics praise" section), 1987.

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• Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.

  Albert Einstein

  Funny Inspirational, Food, Health

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.15, St. Martin's Press

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• Pythagoras was the first to introduce vegetarianism to the West. It is of profound depth for man to learn how to live in friendship with nature, in friendship with creatures. That becomes the foundation. And only on that foundation can you base your prayer, your meditativeness. You can watch it in yourself: when you eat meat, meditation will be found to be more and more difficult.

  Rajneesh

  Prayer, Men, Profound

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• We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form.

  William Ralph Inge

  Cousin, Animal, Rights

  Outspoken Essays: Second Series "The Idea of Progress" (1922)

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• It is the fate of every truth to be an object of ridicule when it is first acclaimed.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Fate, Animal, Thinking Man

  Albert Schweitzer (1956). “An anthology”

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• The people of the future will say, 'meat-eaters!' in disgust and regard us in the same way that we regard cannibals and cannibalism.

  Dennis Weaver

  People, Meat, Way

  "The vegetarians". Book by Rynn Berry, p. 64, 1979.

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• I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Food, Cooking, Environmental

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