Vegan Quotes - Page 15

• We do not need to eat animals, wear animals, or use animals for entertainment purposes, and our only defense of these uses is our pleasure, amusement, and convenience.

  Gary L. Francione

  Animal, Abolition Of Slavery, Needs

  Gary L. Francione (2009). “Animals as Persons: Essays on the Abolition of Animal Exploitation”, p.100, Columbia University Press

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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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• One should not kill a living being, nor cause it to be killed, nor should one incite another to kill. Do not injure any being, either strong or weak, in the world.

  Gautama Buddha

  Strong, Buddhism, World

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• We usually lose today, because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Time, Yesterday, Today

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• I will not kill or hurt any living creature needlessly, nor destroy any beautiful thing, but will strive to save and comfort all gentle life, and guard and perfect all natural beauty upon the earth.

  John Ruskin

  Beautiful, Hurt, Animal

  John Ruskin, John D. Rosenberg (1964). “The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings”, p.415, University of Virginia Press

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• Every time you drink a glass of milk or eat a piece of cheese, you harm a mother. Please go vegan.

  Gary L. Francione

  Mother, Glasses, Pieces

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• If you are not vegan, please consider going vegan. It’s a matter of nonviolence. Being vegan is your statement that you reject violence to other sentient beings, to yourself, and to the environment, on which all sentient beings depend.

  Gary L. Francione

  Matter, Violence, Environment

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• Being vegetarian here also means that we do not consume dairy and egg products, because they are products of the meat industry. If we stop consuming, they will stop producing. Only collective awakening can create enough determination for action.

  Nhat Hanh

  Determination, Mean, Meat Industry

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• The most violent weapon on earth is the table fork.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Animal, Humanity, Earth

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• The distinction between meat and other animal products is total nonsense. Vegetarianism is a morally incoherent position. If you regard animals as members of the moral community, you really don’t have a choice but to go vegan.

  Gary L. Francione

  Animal, Vegetarianism, Choices

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• When I was poor living in a garage in Kansas I began to draw the mice that scampered over my desk. That is how Mickey Mouse was born.

  Walt Disney

  Kansas, Vegetarian, Poor

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• Being a vegan is a first-world phenomenon, completely self-indulgent.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Self, World, Firsts

  Interview with David Sheff, www.playboy.com. October 13, 2011.

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• It was all so very businesslike that one watched it fascinated. It was pork-making by machinery, pork-making by applied mathematics. And yet somehow the most matter-of-fact person could not help thinking of the hogs; they were so innocent, they came so very trustingly; and they were so very human in their protests - and so perfectly within their rights! They had done nothing to deserve it; and it was adding insult to injury, as the thing was done here, swinging them up in this cold-blooded, impersonal way, without pretence at apology, without the homage of a tear.

  Upton Sinclair

  Apology, Thinking, Insult To Injury

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• Here is a tip for all you young people drinking wine. With pasta, drink white wine. With steak, drink red wine. And if you're vegan, you're annoying.

  Demetri Martin

  Funny, Drinking, Wine

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• I would love to make @BarackObama vegan.

  Courtney Stodden

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• As soon as I realized that I didn't need meat to survive or to be in good health, I began to see how forlorn it all is. If only we had a different mentality about the drama of the cowboy and the range and all the rest of it. It's a very romantic notion, an entrenched part of American culture, but I've seen, for example, pigs waiting to be slaughtered, and their hysteria and panic was something I shall never forget.

  Cloris Leachman

  Drama, Cowboy, Pigs

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• Vegan or not, gluten-free or not, Erin McKenna's donuts are the best I've had in 20 years, without exception.

  Mark Bittman

  Years, Gluten, Erin

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• Anyone who cares about the Earth - really cares - must stop eating animals.

  Linda McCartney

  Animal, Who Cares, Earth

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• If you care about animals, there is one and only one choice: go vegan.  Can you choose not to be vegan?  Sure.  You can choose not to care.

  Gary L. Francione

  Animal, Choices, Care

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• Being vegan provides us with the peace of knowing that we are no longer participants in the hideous violence that is animal exploitation.

  Gary L. Francione

  Animal, Knowing, Violence

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• They are nonhuman persons. They are not food. If animals matter morally at all, there is one and only one rational response: go vegan. Everything else is just participation in animal exploitation.

  Gary L. Francione

  Animal, Matter, Participation

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• Usually, old ladies tell me to find Jesus. Look, I'm just trying to find some chai and a good vegan muffin.

  Davey Havok

  Jesus, Trying, Muffins

  "Despairing with AFI" by Kate Stroup in Rolling Stone Magazine, March 25, 2003.

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• I thought a vegan diet would be too difficult, being on the road so much, but it's been far easier than I thought.

  Michelle Forbes

  Would Be, Easier, Difficult

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• Gert: Wake me when the fight scene's over. Kitty Pryde: Oy, tell me about it. Hey, I'm Kitty. You the token pacifist of your group? Gert: Not exactly. Pacifists are like vegans, I'm more of a vegetarian. I enjoy fish and occasional maulings.

  Brian K. Vaughan

  Fighting, Groups, Hey

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• They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.

  Joni Mitchell

  Nature, Environmental, Progress

  "Big Yellow Taxi" (song) (1969)

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