Vegan Quotes - Page 13

• If you truly care about animal rights and have a passion for it, take some action. Whether it's hands-on or political, just go for it. No matter what path you choose in life or what you decide to do, you can use your voice to educate other people and help the cause.

  Mac Danzig

  Passion, Animal, Rights

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• As a vegan body-builder I want to show others that it is possible to gain significant muscle and strength on a vegan diet and I want to inspire others to follow this lifestyle. I love being vegan and knowing that I am having a positive impact on our society.

  Robert Cheeke

  Love Is, Impact, Knowing

  Robert Cheeke (2011). “Vegan Bodybuilding and Fitness”, p.216, Book Publishing Company

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• Being vegan doesn't make you a stronger, better athlete. But it allows you to make yourself a stronger, better athlete.

  Brendan Brazier

  Athlete, Stronger

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• I've been vegan for 15 years, and it turns out it makes a very big impact on the environment to eat fewer animal products, which cause more greenhouse gases than all of transportation combined. The United Nations did a study just over two years ago, and that blew my mind. I started thinking that if people are vegetarian for just one day a week, that makes a huge difference!

  Emily Deschanel

  Thinking, Animal, Years

  "Organic Living with Emily Deschanel". Interview with Amy Spencer, www.health.com. September 5, 2001.

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• Among the noblest in the land - Though man may count himself the least - That man I honor and revere, Who without favor, without fear, In the great city dares to stand, The friend of every friendless beast.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Men, Vegetarianism, Land

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “My Complete Poetical Works (Annotated Edition)”, p.665, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Usually, the first thing a country does in the course of economic development is to introduce a lot of livestock. Our data are showing that this is not a very smart move and the Chinese are listening. They are realizing that animal-based agriculture is not the way to go.... We are basically a vegetarian species and should be eating a wide variety of plant food and minimizing our intake of animal foods.

  T. Colin Campbell

  Country, Smart, Moving

  "Huge Study Of Diet Indicts Fat And Meat" by Jane E. Brody, www.nytimes.com. May 08, 1990.

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• If experiments on animals were abandoned on grounds of compassion, mankind would have made a fundamental advance.

  Richard Wagner

  Animal, Compassion, Vegetarianism

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• It were much better that a sentient being should never have existed, than that it should have existed only to endure unmitigated misery.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Compassion, Vegetarianism, Should Have

  Percy Bysshe Shelley, Sir John Courtown Edward Shelley-Rolls (bart.), Roger Ingpen (1934). “Verse and prose from the manuscripts of Percy Bysshe Shelley”

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• I have this wonderful personal chef who sources and stocks all my organic produce and I basically live on five smoothies a day. I'm totally vegan. I blend this green concoction with kale, cucumber, broccoli, string beans, avocado. My protein comes from protein powder. There is absolutely no milk, butter, cheese.

  Larry Hagman

  Kale, Green, Cucumbers

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• Cows scream louder than carrots.

  Alan Watts

  Cows, Scream, Carrots

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• If you think that being vegan is difficult, imagine how difficult it is for animals that you are not vegan.

  Gary L. Francione

  Animal, Thinking, Imagine

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• People say that being a vegan creates a social problem in that others may react negatively. But isnt that the case if you take a principled position on any issue, whether its racism, sexism, heterosexism, violence as a general matter—or speciesism? The key is to educate others about *why* you take the position.

  Gary L. Francione

  Keys, Issues, Racism

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• I've found that a person does not need protein from meat to be a successful athlete. In fact, my best year of track competition was the first year I ate a vegan diet.

  Carl Lewis

  Athlete, Successful, Years

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• The hardest part about being vegan is shoes. I mean, really, that's the only difficult part, finding shoes that don't have leather on them.

  Lisa Edelstein

  Mean, Shoes, Leather

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Well, there was a time when we used to sacrifice goats, but then we all became vegans, so we've been sacrificing tofu before the shows!

  Jared Leto

  Sacrifice, Tofu, Goats

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• Today, I marvel at the vegan foods in the supermarket, at the cruelty-free clothing choices in stores, and at the fantastic alternatives to dissection in schools, the modern ways to test medicines without killing rabbits and beagles, the many forms of entertainment involving purely human performers.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  School, Medicine, Choices

  "Every Week There is More Reason to Feel Empathy for Animals" by Ingrid Newkirk, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 17, 2009.

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• A dinner! How horrible! I am to be made the pretext for killing all those wretched animals and birds, and fish! Thank you for nothing. Now if it were to be a fast instead of a feast; say a solemn three days' abstention from corpses in my honour, I could at least pretend to believe that it was disinterested. Blood sacrifices are not in my line

  George Bernard Shaw

  Believe, Sacrifice, Animal

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• Cheap meat is the problem. The answer is to replace meat recipes with vegan meals.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Meat, Meals, Answers

  "Here’s a Recipe for Roast Chicken Everyone Should Find Objectionable" by Ingrid Newkirk, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 23, 2012.

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• I don't. I look my age; and I am my age. It is the other people who look older than they are. What can you expect from people who eat corpses and drink spirits?

  George Bernard Shaw

  People, Age, Looks

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• I'm about 90 percent vegan. I think veganism is really well suited for training, at least for me anyway.

  Alanis Morissette

  Thinking, Training, Wells

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• When we turn away from the reality of what we do to animals for our gustatory pleasure, we play a game of pretend, like the child who covers her eyes and thinks you can't see her. And yet, there she remains. Closing our eyes doesn't make violence disappear; it only closes our minds and hearts and enables the violence to continue.

  Colleen Patrick-Goudreau

  Children, Heart, Eye

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• 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, Enlightenment, Meat

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• I think what I'd really like to see would be a mass consciousness-raising movement so that we would all become vegetarian.

  Richard Dawkins

  Thinking, Would Be, Movement

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• If you are interested in preventing animal suffering, the first thing you should give up is eggs and milk, because the animals who produce those foods lead the most unhappy lives. You would do better to eat meat and stop eating eggs and dairy products.

  Cesar Chavez

  Giving Up, Happy Life, Animal

  "The Pig Who Sang to the Moon: The Emotional World of Farm Animals". Book by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, October 31, 2003.

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• Beyond my desire to boycott the torture factories, I am also way happier when I eat a plant-based diet, and I feel about a thousand times more energetic.

  Olivia Wilde

  Animal, Desire, Way

  "Olivia Wilde Named PETA's Sexiest Vegetarian of 2010", www.mtv.com. July 01, 2010.

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