Vegan Quotes - Page 9

• Man is the only animal that can be bored.

  Erich Fromm

  Animal, Men, Vegetarianism

  Erich Fromm (2013). “Man for Himself: An Inquiry Into the Psychology of Ethics”, p.40, Routledge

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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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• To become vegetarian is to step into the stream which leads to nirvana.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Vegetarianism, Steps

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• What is it that should trace the insuperable line? ...The question is not, Can they reason? nor Can they talk? but, Can they suffer?

  Jeremy Bentham

  Love, Yoga, Compassion

  Jeremy Bentham (1876). “An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation”, p.311

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• How can you eat anything with eyes?

  Will Keith Kellogg

  Food, Health, Eye

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• I was so moved by the intelligence,sense of fun and personalities of the animals I worked with on Babe that by the end of the film I was a vegetarian.

  James Cromwell

  Fun, Animal, Personality

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• Excessive animal protein is at the core of many chronic diseases.

  T. Colin Campbell

  Funny Inspirational, Animal, Disease

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• Until 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. There can be no double standard. We cannot have peace among men whose hearts find delight in killing any living creature. By every act that glorifies or even tolerates such moronic delight in killing, we set back the progress of humanity.

  Rachel Carson

  Peace, War, Heart

  "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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• So I am living without fats, without meat, without fish, but am feeling quite well this way. It always seems to me that man was not born to be a carnivore.

  Albert Einstein

  Men, Feelings, Meat

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.454, Princeton University Press

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• I have been a vegetarian for about 10 years. And it really was due to the reading that I did. And they explain so that you understand why it's important for the planet's survival along with compassion for animals. It certainly made it much easier for me. I lost weight really fast. My mother died from cancer so this is all very personal to me. And I just would like the planet to be a better place. And I think you'll find a vegetarian diet to be really incredible these days

  Linda Blair

  Mother, Cancer, Reading

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• The American fast food diet and the meat eating habits of the wealthy around the world support a world food system that diverts food resources from the hungry. A diet higher in whole grains and legumes and lower in beef and other meat is not just healthier for ourselves but also contributes to changing the world system that feeds some people and leaves others hungry.

  Walden Bello

  Vegetarianism, Meat Eating, People

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• You're thinking I'm one of those wise-ass California vegetarians who is going to tell you that eating a few strips of bacon is bad for your health. I'm not. I say its a free country and you should be able to kill yourself at any rate you choose, as long as your cold dead body is not blocking my driveway.

  Scott Adams

  Funny, Wise, Country

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• You know, we all oppose animal cruelty. But sometimes we forget that animals on farms suffer and feel pain like all other animals. They, too, deserve to be protected from harm and cruelty.

  Charlotte Ross

  Pain, Animal, Suffering

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• As often as Herman had witnessed the slaughter of animals and fish, he always had the same thought: in their behavior toward creatures, all men were Nazis. The smugness with which man could do with other species as he pleased exemplified the most extreme racist theories, the principle that might is right.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Animal, Men, Principles

  "Enemies, A Love Story" by Isaac Bashevis Singer, New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (p. 257), 1972.

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• The obligations of law and equity reach only to mankind; but kindness and beneficence should be extended to the creatures of every species, and these will flow from the breast of a true man, as streams that issue from the living fountain.

  Plutarch

  Kindness, Philosophical, Animal

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• Many things made me become a vegetarian, among them the higher food yield as a solution to world hunger.

  John Denver

  Yield, Vegetarianism, World

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• Love the animals: God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Animal, Vegetarianism, Joy

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2011). “The Brothers Karamazov (卡拉馬助夫兄弟們)”, p.906, Hyweb Technology Co. Ltd.

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• The standard four food groups are based on American agricultural lobbies. Why do we have a milk group? Because we have a National Dairy Council. Why do we have a meat group? Because we have an extremely powerful meat lobby.

  Marion Nestle

  Funny Inspirational, Powerful, Four

  "Feeding Frenzy" by Laura Shapiro, www.newsweek.com. May 26, 1991.

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• When we eat factory-farmed meat we live, literally, on tortured flesh. Increasingly, that tortured flesh is becoming our own.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Vegetarianism, Meat, Flesh

  "Eating Animals". Book by Jonathan Safran Foer, March 4, 2010.

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• No doubt it was necessary to civilize man in relation to man. That work is already advanced and is making progress every day. But man must be civilized also in relation to nature.

  Victor Hugo

  Nature, Animal, Men

  "The Alps and Pyrenees".

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• I'm a big health-food freak and a vegetarian devotee.

  Chelsea Clinton

  Funny Inspirational, Vegan Food, Vegetarian

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

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• Someone from Manolo Blahnik went into my shop and said: 'These shoes are not vegetarian.' That's the highest compliment, because you just can't tell that they are, and they are. My mum taught me to have a soul.

  Stella McCartney

  Funny Inspirational, Shoes, Soul

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• Animals are not brethren, they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time.

  Henry Beston

  Animal, Vegetarian Diet, Vegetarianism

  Henry Beston, Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth (2001). “The Best of Beston: A Selection from the Natural World of Henry Beston from Cape Cod to the St. Lawrence”, p.18, David R. Godine Publisher

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• The sixteen hundred dairies in California’s Central Valley alone produce more waste than a city of twenty-one million people-that’s more than the populations of London, New York, and Chicago combined.

  Gene Baur

  New York, Cities, California

  Gene Baur (2008). “Farm Sanctuary: Changing Hearts and Minds About Animals and Food”, p.114, Simon and Schuster

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• Love the animals. God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled. Don't trouble it, don't harass them, don't deprive them of their happiness, don't work against God's intent.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Animal, Vegetarianism, Joy

  FYODOR MIKHAILOVICH DOSTOEVSKY (1952). “GREAT BOOKS OF THE WESTERN WORLD”

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