Vegan Quotes - Page 2

• Recognize meat for what it really is: the antibiotic- and pesticide-laden corpse of a tortured animal.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Food, Animal, Vegetarianism

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• But for the sake of some little mouthful of flesh we deprive a soul of the sun and light, and of that proportion of life and time it had been born into the world to enjoy.

  Plutarch

  Life, Animal, Light

  Plutarch (1909). “Plutarch's essays and miscellanies, comprising all the works collected under the title of "Morals", translated from the Greek by several hands, corr. and rev. by William W. Goodwin”

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• We are sick of war, we don't want to fight, And yet we gorge ourselves upon the dead.

  George Bernard Shaw

  War, Fighting, Vegetarian Diet

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  If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.

  Paul McCartney

  Wall, Food, Health

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

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• I try to stick to a vegan diet heavy on fruit and vegetables.

  Clint Eastwood

  Funny Inspirational, Vegetarian Diet, Vegetables

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• I haven't bought any leather articles for a very long time. My ideal is to be able to avoid all animal products, in food as well as clothing.

  Martina Navratilova

  Animal, Long, Able

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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, Vegetarianism, Cooking

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• Some people are still going to want to eat meat. We do agree though that vegetarianism is a healthier diet.

  Dave Stroud

  Vegetarianism, People, Meat

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• Although man has included meat in his diet for thousands of years, his anatomy and physiology, and the chemistry of his digestive juices, are still unmistakably those of a frugivorous animal.

  Herbert M. Shelton

  Animal, Men, Years

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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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• If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be vegetarian. We feel better about ourselves and better about the animals, knowing we're not contributing to their pain.

  Linda McCartney

  Wall, Pain, Feel Better

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  Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Life, Beauty

  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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• Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals. And in this respect mankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it.

  Milan Kundera

  Love, Peace, Nature

  "The Unbearable Lightness of Being". Book by Milan Kundera, 1984.

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• Every man who has ever been earnest to preserve his higher or poetic faculties in the best condition, has been particularly inclined to abstain from animal food

  Henry David Thoreau

  Philosophical, Animal, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.131, Graphic Arts Books

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• In their behavior toward creatures, all men are Nazis. Human beings see oppression vividly when they're the victims. Otherwise they victimize blindly and without a thought.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Men, Vegetarianism, Animal Rights

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• When I say a vegan diet can be "the healthiest dietary option we can live by," I mean an informed vegan diet.

  Tom Regan

  Mean, Live By, Diets

  Source: www.all-creatures.org

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• Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Life, Peace, Honesty

  "Innovate Like Edison : The Five-Step System for Breakthrough Business Success". Book by Michael J. Gelb and Sarah Miller Caldicott, p. 67,

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• The meat industry spends hundreds of millions of dollars lying to the public about their product. But no amount of false propaganda can sanitize meat. The facts are absolutely clear: Eating meat is bad for human health, catastrophic for the environment, and a living nightmare for animals

  Chrissie Hynde

  Lying, Food, Health

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• The idea that some lives matter less is the root of all that is wrong with the world.

  Paul Farmer

  Nature, Ideas, Roots

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• Auschwitz begins wherever someone looks at a slaughterhouse and thinks: they’re only animals.

  Theodor Adorno

  Animal, Thinking, Holocaust

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• At the moment our human world is based on the suffering and destruction of millions of non-humans. To perceive this and to do something to change it in personal and public ways is to undergo a change of perception akin to a religious conversion. Nothing can ever be seen in quite the same way again because once you have admitted the terror and pain of other species you will, unless you resist conversion, be always aware of the endless permutations of suffering that support our society.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Religious, Pain, Support

  Attributed to Arthur Conan Doyle in "The Face on Your Plate: The Truth About Food" by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, 2009.

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• Men hunt I think maybe because they have something wrong with their own equipment and they need something else to shoot.

  Pamela Anderson

  Funny Inspirational, Men, Thinking

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• The gods created certain kinds of beings to replenish our bodies... they are the trees and the plants and the seeds.

  Plato

  Philosophical, Animal, Tree

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• To be a vegetarian is to disagree - to disagree with the course of things today... starvation, cruelty - we must make a statement against these things. Vegetarianism is my statement. And I think it's a strong one.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Strong, Thinking, Vegetarianism

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• Could you look an animal in the eyes and say to it, 'My appetite is more important than your suffering'?

  Moby

  Eye, Animal, Suffering

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