Vegetarian Quotes - Page 15

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

  George Bernard Shaw

  Friendship, Food, Animal

  76 Copy quote

• If beef is your idea of 'real food for real people,' you'd better live real close to a real good hospital.

  Neal Barnard

  Real, Animal, Rights

  82 Copy quote

• 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

  46 Copy quote

  Show source

• The average age (longevity) of a meat eater is 63. I am on the verge of 85 and still work as hard as ever. I have lived quite long enough and am trying to die; but I simply cannot do it. A single beef-steak would finish me; but I cannot bring myself to swallow it. I am oppressed with a dread of living forever. That is the only disadvantage of vegetarianism.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Funny Inspirational, Vegetarianism, Average

  9 Copy quote

• If there would come a voice from God saying, 'I'm against vegetarianism!' I would say, 'Well, I am for it!' This is how
  strongly I feel in this regard.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Vegetarianism, Voice, Vegan

  10 Copy quote

• I do not like eating meat because I have seen lambs and pigs killed. I saw and felt their pain. They felt the approaching death. I could not bear it. I cried like a child. I ran up a hill and could not breathe. I felt that I was choking. I felt the death of the lamb.

  Vaslav Nijinsky

  Death, Children, Pain

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

  84 Copy quote

  Show source

• It is only by softening and disguising dead flesh by culinary preparation that it is rendered susceptible of mastication or digestion, and that the sight of its bloody juices and raw horror does not excite intolerable loathing and disgust.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Sight, Vegetarian Diet, Vegetarianism

  Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1839). “The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.86

  55 Copy quote

  Show source

• One farmer says to me, "You cannot live on vegetable food solely, for it furnishes nothing to make the bones with;" and so he religiously devotes a part of his day to supplying himself with the raw material of bones; walking all the while he talks behind his oxen, which, with vegetable-made bones, jerk him and his lumbering plow along in spite of every obstacle.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Philosophical, Animal, Oxen

  8 Copy quote

• Even as a junkie I stayed true [to vegetarianism] - 'I shall have heroin, but I shan't have a hamburger.' What a sexy little paradox.

  Russell Brand

  Sexy, Recovery, Vegetarianism

  FaceBook post by Russell Brand from May 11, 2012

  13 Copy quote

  Show source

• Every man who has ever been earnest to preserve his higher or poetic faculties in the best condition, has been particularly inclined to abstain from animal food

  Henry David Thoreau

  Philosophical, Animal, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.131, Graphic Arts Books

  13 Copy quote

  Show source

• Ethically they had arrived at the conclusion that man's supremacy over lower animals meant not that the former should prey upon the latter, but that the higher should protect the lower, and that there should be mutual aid between the two as between man and man. They had also brought out the truth that man eats not for enjoyment but to live.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Spiritual, Men, Animal

  Mahatma Gandhi (1948). “Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth”, p.50, Courier Corporation

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  Howard Lyman

  Compassion, Soul, Vegan

  61 Copy quote

• 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

  27 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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.

  29 Copy quote

  Show source

• Love animals: God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled. Do not trouble their joy, don't harrass them, don't deprive them of their happiness, don't work against God's intent. Man, do not pride yourself on superiority to animals; they are without sin, and you, with your greatness, defile the earth by your appearance on it, and leave the traces of your foulness after you - alas, it is true of almost every one of us!

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Love, Religious, Nature

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2017). “The Brothers Karamazov (English Russian Edition illustrated): Братья Карамазовы (англо-русская редакция иллюстрированная)”, p.758, Clap Publishing, LLC.

  57 Copy quote

  Show source

• The thinking (person) must oppose all cruel customs, no matter how deeply rooted in tradition and surrounded by a halo. When we have a choice, we must avoid bringing torment and injury into the life of another.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Nature, Philosophical, Animal

  17 Copy quote

• All normal people love meat. If I went to a barbeque and there was no meat, I would say 'Yo Goober! Where's the meat?'. I'm trying to impress people here Lisa. You don't win friends with salad.

  Dan Castellaneta

  Winning, Vegetarianism, People

  11 Copy quote

• A vegetarian is not a person who lives on vegetables, any more than a Catholic is a person who lives on cats.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Cat, Vegetarianism, Vegetables

  4 Copy quote

• 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”

  82 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  29 Copy quote

• We are sick of war, we don't want to fight, And yet we gorge ourselves upon the dead.

  George Bernard Shaw

  War, Fighting, Vegetarian Diet

  18 Copy quote

• Alas, what wickedness to swallow flesh into our own flesh, to fatten our greedy bodies by cramming in other bodies, to have one living creature fed by the death of another!

  Pythagoras

  Vegetarianism, Wickedness, Body

  119 Copy quote

• The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Peace, Soulmate, Honesty

  The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 2

  132 Copy quote

  Show source

• How can you eat anything with eyes?

  Will Keith Kellogg

  Food, Health, Eye

  15 Copy quote

• The first man . . . ventured to call food and nourishment the parts that had a little before bellowed and cried, moved and lived. How could his eyes endure the slaughter when throats were slit and hides flayed and limbs torn from limb? How could his nose endure the stench? How was it that the pollution did not turn away his taste, which made contact with the sores of others and sucked juices and serums from mortal wounds?

  Plutarch

  Eye, Men, Animal

  16 Copy quote