Vegan Quotes - Page 20

• In every respect, vegans appear to enjoy equal or better health in comparison to both vegetarians and non-vegetarians.

  T. Colin Campbell

  Vegetarianism, Vegetarian Health, Enjoy

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• My best year of track competition was the first year I ate a vegan diet.

  Carl Lewis

  Years, Track, Competition

  Introduction to "Very Vegetarian" by Jannequin Bennett, 2001.

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• Vegan food is soul food in its truest form. Soul food means to feed the soul. And, to me, your soul is your intent. If your intent is pure, you are pure.

  Erykah Badu

  Mean, Soul, Vegan Food

  Interview with Lisa Mickleborough, vegnews.com. October 06, 2008.

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• All wars are fought for the acquisition of wealth

  Socrates

  War, Acquisition, Wealth

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• The very beginning of Genesis tells us that God created man in order to give him dominion over fish and fowl and all creatures. Of course, Genesis was written by a man, not a horse. There is no certainty that God actually did grant man dominion over other creatures. What seems more likely, in fact, is that man invented God to sanctify the dominion that he usurped for himself over the cow and the horse.

  Milan Kundera

  Horse, Men, Order

  "The Unbearable Lightness of Being". Book by Milan Kundera, 1884.

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• A world without right or wrong was a world that did not want itself, anything other than itself, or anything not those two things, but that still wanted something. A world without right or wrong invited you over, complained about you, and gave you cookies. Don't leave, it said, and gave you a vegan cookie. It avoided eye contact, but touched your knee sometimes. It was the world without right or wrong. It didn't have any meaning. It just wanted a little meaning.

  Tao Lin

  Eye, Two, Cookies

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• I have had vegan Thanksgiving of tofurkey and soy gravy. And it's not to say that Thanksgiving will ever justify the genocide of the Native Americans. But vegan Thanksgiving - that's just spitting on the graves, isn't it?

  Hari Kondabolu

  Native American, Funny Thanksgiving, Soy

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• Thousands of animals (now billions) are butchered every day without a shadow of remorse. It cries vengeance upon all the human race.

  Romain Rolland

  Animal, Race, Shadow

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• I'm a vegan, but you can be really unhealthy as a vegan, too. Vegan just means that you don't use animal products, so you don't wear leather, you don't wear wool, and you don't eat animal products. But you can eat french fries and stuff like that all day long.

  Emily Deschanel

  Mean, Animal, Long

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

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• 'Vegetarian' is a slippery word. I don't eat cheese, I don't eat duck - the point is I'm vegan.

  Grace Slick

  Ducks, Cheese, Vegetarian

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• We have all heard of the web of life. The way we live threatens to trap us in a web of death.

  Ban Ki-moon

  Web Of Life, Way, Traps

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• It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.

  Voltaire

  Peace, Crazy, War

  "Rights". Book by Voltaire, 1771.

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• I look forward to the day when animals will have the right to run if they have legs, swim if they have fins, and fly if they have wings.

  Gretchen Wyler

  Running, Animal, Wings

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• To shut your mind, heart, imagination to the sufferings of others is to begin slowly but inexorably to die. It is to cease by inches from being human, to become in the end capable of nothing, generous or unselfish; or sometimes capable of anything, however terrible.

  John Austin Baker

  Heart, Suffering Of Others, Imagination

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• Nobody really needs a mink coat... Except the mink.

  Glenda Jackson

  Needs, Coats, Vegetarian

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• Science that fails to embrace all living beings is far more dangerous than any virus!

  Steve Simmons

  Viruses, Vegetarian, Failing

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• The sort of man who likes to spend his time watching a cage of monkeys chase one another, or a lion gnaw its tail, or a lizard catch flies, is precisely the sort of man whose mental weakness should be combated at the public expense, not fostered.

  H. L. Mencken

  Men, Weakness, Tails

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• If a lobster didn't look like a sci-fi monster, people would be less able to drop him alive into boiling water.

  George Carlin

  People, Water, Monsters

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• In its sacredness, families get together to (unintentionally?) celebrate one genocide (against Native Americans) by committing another (against turkeys).

  Daniel Brook

  Native American, Turkeys, Together

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• I personally chose to go vegan because I educated myself on factory farming and cruelty to animals, and I suddenly realized that what was on my plate were living things, with feelings. And I just couldn't disconnect myself from it any longer. I read books like 'Diet for a New America' and saw documentaries like 'Earthlings' and 'Meet your Meat,' and it became an easy choice for me.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Book, Animal, America

  "Why Ellen Went Vegan". www.peta.org. November 09, 2009.

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• Humans are a part of nature, not apart from nature.

  Marc Bekoff

  Vegetarian, Humans

  Marc Bekoff (2002). “Minding Animals: Awareness, Emotions, and Heart”, p.188, Oxford University Press

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• Human beings have capitalized on the silence of animals, just as certain human beings have historically imposed silence on certain other human beings by denying slaves the right to literacy, denying women the right to own property, and denying both the right to vote.

  Gary Steiner

  Animal, Silence, Vegetarian

  Gary Steiner (2012). “Animals and the Moral Community: Mental Life, Moral Status, and Kinship”, p.138, Columbia University Press

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• Don't eat bear balls. Eat healthy, delectable, plant-based foods so that you will never fall over on your cat.

  Rip Esselstyn

  Fall, Cat, Healthy

  Rip Esselstyn (2009). “The Engine 2 Diet: The Texas Firefighter's 28-Day Save-Your-Life Plan that Lowers Cholesterol and Burns Away the Pounds”, p.59, Hachette UK

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• Monogamous musicians are like vegan hockey players.

  Rob Sheffield

  Hockey, Player, Musician

  Rob Sheffield (2010). “Talking to Girls About Duran Duran: One Young Man's Quest for True Love and a Cooler Haircut”, p.33, Penguin

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• All of us cherish our beliefs. They are, to a degree, self-defining. When someone comes along who challenges our belief system as insufficiently well-based - or who, like Socrates, merely asks embarrassing questions that we haven't thought of, or demonstrates that we've swept key underlying assumptions under the rug - it becomes much more than a search for knowledge. It feels like a personal assault.

  Carl Sagan

  Love, Embarrassing Questions, Keys

  Carl Sagan (2011). “The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.297, Ballantine Books

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