Vegetarian Diet Quotes

• I can't think of anything better in the world to be but a vegan.

  Alicia Silverstone

  Thinking, Vegetarianism, World

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• Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Animal, Rights, Vegetarianism

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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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• There's no question that largely vegetarian diets are as healthy as you can get. The evidence is so strong and overwhelming and produced over such a long period of time that it's no longer debatable.

  Marion Nestle

  Strong, Long, Healthy

  Nutrition Action Healthletter, October 1996.

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• Nothing's changed my life more. I feel better about myself as a person, being conscious and responsible for my actions and I lost weight and my skin cleared up and I got bright eyes and I just became stronger and healthier and happier. Can't think of anything better in the world to be but be vegan.

  Alicia Silverstone

  Funny Inspirational, Eye, Feel Better

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• I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Meaningful, Nature, Compassion

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• To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Karma, Animal, Rights

  Mahatma Gandhi, General Press (2014). “My Experiments with Truth: An Autobiography of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.361, GENERAL PRESS

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• A vegetarian is a person who won't eat anything that can have children.

  David Brenner

  Funny, Witty, Children

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

  George Bernard Shaw

  Friendship, Food, Animal

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• We manage to swallow flesh, only because we do not think of the cruel and sinful thing we do.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Food, Thinking, Vegetarianism

  Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, Rabindranath Tagore (1968). “Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi, Nehru, Tagore: Being a Treasury of Over Ten Thousand Invaluable and Inspiring Thoughts, Views, and Obervations on about Eight Hundred Subjects of Popular Interest, Collected from the Speeches and Writings of These Three Great Leaders of Modern India”

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

  Clint Eastwood

  Funny Inspirational, Vegetables, Trying

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• When I was 88 years old, I gave up meat entirely and switched to a plant foods diet following a slight stroke. During the following months, I not only lost 50 pounds, but gained strength in my legs and picked up stamina. Now, at age 93, I'm on the same plant-based diet, and I still don't eat any meat or dairy products. I either swim, walk, or paddle a canoe daily and I feel the best I've felt since my heart problems began.

  Benjamin Spock

  Heart, Years, Swim

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• I love animals. All animals. I wouldn't hurt a cat or a dog — or a chicken, or a cow. And I wouldn't ask someone else to hurt them for me. That's why I'm a vegetarian.

  Peter Dinklage

  Dog, Hurt, Cat

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• Food is an important part of a balanced diet.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Funny, Life, Witty

  FaceBook post by Fran Lebowitz from Apr 13, 2010

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• We patronize the animals for their incompleteness, for their tragic fate of having taken form so far below ourselves. And therein we err, and greatly err. For the animal shall not be measured by man. In a world older and more complete than ours, they are more finished and complete, gifted with extensions of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear. They are not brethren, they are not underlings; they are other Nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time.

  Henry Beston

  Taken, Fate, Men

  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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• My body will not be a tomb for other creatures.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Vegetarianism, Body, Vegan

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• I venture to maintain that there are multitudes to whom the necessity of discharging the duties of a butcher would be so inexpressibly painful and revolting, that if they could obtain a flesh diet on no other condition, they would relinquish it forever.

  William Edward Hartpole Lecky

  Vegetarianism, Forever, Would Be

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• The earth affords a lavish supply of richess of innocent foods, and offers you banquets that involve no bloodshed or slaughter; only beasts satisfy their hunger with flesh, and not even all of those, because horses, cattle, and sheep live on grass.

  Pythagoras

  Horse, Sheep, Thyme

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• We stopped eating meat many years ago. During the course of a Sunday lunch we happened to look out of the kitchen window at our young lambs playing happily in the fields. Glancing down at our plates, we suddenly realized that we were eating the leg of an animal who had until recently been playing in a field herself. We looked at each other and said, "Wait a minute, we love these sheep-they're such gentle creatures. So why are we eating them?" It was the last time we ever did.

  Linda McCartney

  Sunday, Animal, Sheep

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• I do not see any reason why animals should be slaughtered to serve as human diet when there are so many substitutes. After all, man can live without meat.

  Dalai Lama

  Men, Animal, Vegetarianism

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• Oh, come! That boot is on the other leg. Why should you call me to account for eating decently? If I battened on the scorched corpses of animals, you might well ask me why I did that

  George Bernard Shaw

  Animal, Vegetarianism, Boots

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• We are the living graves of murdered beasts, slaughtered to satisfy our appetites. How can we hope in this world to attain the peace we say we are so anxious for?

  George Bernard Shaw

  Vegetarianism, World, Beast

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• Art is not an end in itself, but a means of addressing humanity.

  Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky

  Art, Mean, Humanity

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• Think of the fierce energy concentrated in an acorn! You bury it in the ground, and it explodes into an oak! Bury a sheep, and nothing happens but decay.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Food, Thinking, Sheep

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• I have lived temperately, eating little animal food, and that not as an aliment, so much as a condiment for the vegetables, which constitute my principal diet.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Animal, Vegetarianism, Vegetables

  B. L. Rayner, Thomas Jefferson (1834). “Life of Thomas Jefferson: with selections from the most valuable portions of his voluminious and unrivalled private correspondence : with portrait”, p.394

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