Vegetarian Quotes - Page 14

• 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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• I am not interested to know whether vivisection produces results that are profitable to the human race or doesn't...The pain which it inflicts upon unconsenting animals is the basis of my enmity toward it, and it is to me sufficient justification of the enmity without looking further.

  Mark Twain

  Pain, Animal, Vegetarianism

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• I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspiring, Dog, Cat

  Attributed in "Animal century" by Mark Gold (, 1998.

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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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• My girlfriend bought a cook book the other day called 'Cheap and easy vegetarian cooking'. Which is perfect for her, because not only is she vegetarian.

  Jimmy Carr

  Funny, Girlfriend, Book

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• I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants.

  A. Whitney Brown

  Funny, Sarcastic, Hate

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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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• I'm not a vegetarian.

  Carol Alt

  "Transcript: Carol Alt Talks About 'Eating in the Raw'". "The O'Reilly Factor" with Bill O'Reilly, www.foxnews.com. January 11, 2005.

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• Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Death, Baby, Buddhist

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• I was a vegetarian until I started leaning toward the sunlight.

  Rita Rudner

  Inspirational, Funny, Humor

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• Vegetarian - that's an old Indian word meaning lousy hunter.

  Andy Rooney

  Health, Vegetarianism, Safety

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• What I think about vivisection is that if people admit that they have the right to take or endanger the life of living beings for the benefit of many, there will be no limit to their cruelty.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Philosophical, Animal, Thinking

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• I'm pretty healthy so I think that helps a lot. I've been that way for a long time - 20 solid years of eating vegetarian/vegan and taking care of myself. That probably helps the preservation process.

  Jared Leto

  Thinking, Years, Long

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

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• People get offended by animal rights campaigns. It's ludicrous. It's not as bad as mass animal death in a factory.

  Richard Gere

  Animal, Rights, People

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• The word "veganism" denotes a philosophy and way of living which seeks to exclude - as far as is possible and practical - all forms of exploitation of, and cruelty to, animals for food, clothing or any other purpose; and by extension, promotes the development and use of animal-free alternatives for the benefit of humans, animals and the environment. In dietary terms it denotes the practice of dispensing with all products derived wholly or partly from animals.

  Donald Watson

  Philosophy, Animal, Practice

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• In the next ten years, one of the things you're bound to hear is that animal protein is one of the most toxic nutrients of all that can be considered. Quite simply, the more you substitute plant foods for animal foods, the healthier you are likely to be.

  T. Colin Campbell

  Food, Health, Animal

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• Veganism gives us all the opportunity to say what we "stand for" in life- the ideal of healthy, humane living. Add decades to your life, with a clear conscience as a bonus.

  Donald Watson

  Life, Health, Animal

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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, Vegetarian Diet, Vegetarianism

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• We experience ourselves our thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest. A kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Nature

  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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• Flesh eating is simply immoral, as it involves the performance of an act which is contrary to moral feeling: By killing, man suppresses in himself, unnecessarily, the highest spiritual capacity, that of sympathy and pity towards living creatures like himself and by violating his own feelings becomes cruel." "As long as there are slaughterhouses, there will be battlefields.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Spiritual, Men, Vegetarianism

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• 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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• In all the round world of Utopia there is no meat. There used to be, but now we cannot stand the thought of slaughterhouses. And it is impossible to find anyone who will hew a dead ox or pig. I can still remember as a boy the rejoicings over the closing of the last slaughterhouse.

  H. G. Wells

  Animal, Boys, Pigs

  H. G. Wells (2016). “A Modern Utopia”, p.176, H. G. Wells

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• Animal factories are one more sign of the extent to which our technological capacities have advanced faster than our ethics.

  Peter Singer

  Animal, Ethics, Vegan

  Jim Mason, Peter Singer (1980). “Animal Factories”, Crown

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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, Vegetarian Diet, Years

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• A human can be healthy without killing animals for food.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Food, Animal, Meat Consumption

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