Veganism Quotes

• Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Friendship, Food, Animal

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• Veganism is not about giving anything up or losing anything; it is about gaining the peace within yourself that comes from embracing nonviolence and refusing to participate in the exploitation of the vulnerable

  Gary L. Francione

  Giving, Losing, Vegetarian

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• As long as people will shed the blood of innocent creatures there can be no peace, no liberty, no harmony between people. Slaughter and justice cannot dwell together.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Animal, Compassion, Vegetarianism

  "Animal life in Jewish tradition: attitudes and relationships". Book by Elijah Judah Schochet, p. 297, 1984.

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• I am a stronger follower of Veganism by principle, not just because of moral and aesthetic reasons. I truly believe in a Vegetarian lifestyle and I have faith and hopes in change in human destiny, thanks to the physical effects and benefits of a healthier diet and its influence on the character of the people. It will bring about some benefit and improvement to human society.

  Albert Einstein

  Believe, Character, Destiny

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• If you love animals but think that veganism is extreme, then you are confused about the meaning of love.

  Gary L. Francione

  Confused, Animal, Thinking

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• He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.

  Immanuel Kant

  Heart, Men, Animal

  Immanuel Kant (1963). “Lectures on ethics”

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• Does veganism require a “sacrifice”? Yes. It requires that you give up that which you never had any right to in the first place.

  Gary L. Francione

  Giving Up, Sacrifice, Doe

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  The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man.

  Charles Darwin

  Love, Life, Nature

  Charles Darwin (2015). “Darwin on Evolution: Words of Wisdom from the Father of Evolution”, p.25, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Distance, Vegetarianism, Ethics

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.4, Harvard University Press

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• Veganism is about nonviolence:
  nonviolence to other sentient beings;
  nonviolence to yourself;
  nonviolence to the earth.

  Gary L. Francione

  Earth, Sentient Beings, Nonviolence

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• A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Food, Health, Animal

  Leo Tolstoy (graf) (1911). “The novels and other works of Lyof N. Tolstoï”

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• Truly man is the king of beasts, for his brutality exceeds them. We live by the death of others. We are burial places.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Kings, Animal, Men

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• Now I can look at you in peace; I don't eat you any more.

  Franz Kafka

  Animal, Compassion, Vegetarianism

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• It is my view that the vegetarian manner of living, by its purely physical effect on the human temperament, would most beneficially influence the lot of mankind.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Life, Wisdom

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.453, Princeton University Press

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• Veganism is not a limitation in any way; it's an expansion of your love, your commitment to nonviolence, and your belief in justice for all.

  Gary L. Francione

  Love You, Commitment, Justice For All

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• Life is life - whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat or a man. The idea of difference is a human conception for man's own advantage.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Dog, Philosophical, Cat

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• Violence begins with the fork.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Violence, Animal Rights, Vegetarian

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• It ill becomes us to invoke in our daily prayers the blessings of God, the Compassionate, if we in turn will not practice elementary compassion toward our fellow creatures.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Prayer, Animal, Blessing

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• There’s no comparison. Veganism is the single most important thing that one can do today.

  Lee Hall

  Important, Today, Can Do

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• We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.

  Immanuel Kant

  Dog, Heart, Animal

  "True animal instinct", www.theguardian.com. September 2, 2005.

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• A human body in no way resembles those that were born for ravenousness; it hath no hawk's bill, no sharp talon, no roughness of teeth, no such strength of stomach or heat of digestion, as can be sufficient to convert or alter such heavy and fleshy fare.

  Plutarch

  Vegetarianism, Teeth, Body

  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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• Veganism must be the baseline if we are to have any hope of shifting the paradigm away from animals as things and toward animals as nonhuman persons.

  Gary L. Francione

  Animal, Shifting, Paradigm

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• I have been a vegetarian for forty-two years. I did it because I didn't want animals to die so I could eat. Then, eight to ten years ago, when I found out the life of a dairy cow is way worse than the life of a beef cow, I understood I had to switch to complete veganism. Otherwise, I would be very inconsistent in my beliefs that animals shouldn't be abused for food.

  Sam Simon

  Animal, Years, Two

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• Veganism affirms what is best for us, what is best for the animals, and what is best for the environment. Everywhere you look, you find veganism entwined with what is best.

  Tom Regan

  Animal, Looks, Environment

  Source: www.all-creatures.org

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• When a human being kills an animal for food, he is neglecting his own hunger for justice.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Animal, Vegetarianism, Justice

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