Vegetarian Health Quotes - Page 4

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

George Bernard Shaw

Friendship, Food, Animal

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People often say that humans have always eaten animals, as if this is a justification for continuing the practice. According to this logic, we should not try to prevent people from murdering other people, since this has also been done since the earliest of times.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Animal, Vegetarianism, Practice

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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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To a man whose mind is free there is something even more intolerable in the sufferings of animals than in the sufferings of man. For with the latter it is at least admitted that suffering is evil and that the man who causes it is a criminal. But thousands of animals are uselessly butchered every day without a shadow of remorse. If any man were to refer to it, he would be thought ridiculous. And that is the unpardonable crime.

Romain Rolland

Animal, Men, Vegetarianism

Romain Rolland (1913). “Jean-Christophe: The market-place”

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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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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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'Thou shalt not kill' does not apply to murder of one's own kind only, but to all living beings and this commandment was inscribed in the human breast long before it was proclaimed from Sinai.

Leo Tolstoy

Philosophical, Compassion, Animal

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If you visit the killing floor of a slaughterhouse, it will brand your soul for life.

Howard Lyman

Compassion, Soul, Vegan

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

Thomas Jefferson

Animal, Rights, Vegetarian Diet

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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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One day the world will look upon research upon animals as it now looks upon research on human beings.

Leonardo da Vinci

Animal, One Day, Looks

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How can you eat anything with eyes?

Will Keith Kellogg

Food, Health, Eye

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A human can be healthy without killing animals for food.

Leo Tolstoy

Food, Animal, Meat Consumption

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Some say vegetarianism is an alternative diet, but it is the original diet, the plan designed by God.

James Marcus

Vegetarianism, Alternatives, Plans

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I'm stopped. I'll never eat another burger.

Oprah Winfrey

Funny Inspirational, Burgers, Vegetarian

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Martin Luther King taught us all nonviolence. I was told to extend nonviolence to the mother and her calf.

Dick Gregory

Mother, Kings, Taught Us

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Killing an animal to make a coat is sin. It wasn't meant to be, and we have no right to do it.

Doris Day

Animal, Vegetarianism, Coats

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Kids nowadays...tend to go overboard [on] protein - something I believe to be totally unnecsssary...[I state in] my formula for basic good eating: Eat about one gram of protein for every two pounds of body weight.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Believe, Kids, Body Weight

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Fur used to turn heads, now it turns stomachs.

Rue McClanahan

Fur, Vegetarian, Vegan

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All red meat contains saturated fat. There is no such thing as truly lean meat. Trimming away the edge ring of fat around a steak really does not lower the fat content significantly. People who have red meat (trimmed or untrimmed) as a regular feature of their diets suffer in far greater numbers from heart attacks and strokes.

Michael Klaper

Heart, Vegetarianism, Numbers

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Awareness is bad for the meat business. Conscience is bad for the meat business. Sensitivity to life is bad for the meat business. DENIAL, however, the meat business finds indispensable.

John Robbins

Vegetarianism, Meat, Denial

John Robbins (2011). “Diet for a New America: How Your Food Choices Affect Your Health, Happiness, and the Future of Life on Earth”, p.92, H J Kramer

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Once people start introducing animal products into their diet, that's when the mischief starts.

T. Colin Campbell

Animal, People, Introducing

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As soon as I realized that I didn't need meat to survive or to be in good health, I began to see how forlorn it all is. If only we had a different mentality about the drama of the cowboy and the range and all the rest of it. It's a very romantic notion, an entrenched part of American culture, but I've seen, for example, pigs waiting to be slaughtered, and their hysteria and panic was something I shall never forget.

Cloris Leachman

Drama, Cowboy, Pigs

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My perspective of veganism was most affected by learning that the veal calf is a by-product of dairying, and that in essence there is a slice of veal in every glass of what I had thought was an innocuous white liquid - milk.

Rynn Berry

Glasses, Vegetarianism, Essence

"The Vegan Sourcebook". Book by Joanne Stepaniak (p. 40), 1998.

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No human being, past the thoughtless age of boyhood, will wantonly murder any creature which holds its life by the same tenure that he does.

Henry David Thoreau

Life, Learning, Knowledge

Henry David Thoreau, Linda Corrente (1984). “Henry David Thoreau's Walden”, Barrons Educational Series Incorporated

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