Vegetarian Quotes - Page 25

• We don't usually think of what we eat as a matter of ethics. Stealing, lying, hurting people - these acts are obviously relevant to our moral character. In ancient Greece and Rome, ethical choices about food were considered at least as significant as ethical choices about sex.

  Peter Singer

  Hurt, Sex, Lying

  Peter Singer, Jim Mason (2007). “The Ethics of What We Eat: Why Our Food Choices Matter”, p.3, Rodale

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• He didn't call his father and mother 'Father' and 'Mother' but Harold and Alberta. They were very up to date and advanced people. They were vegetarians, non-smokers and teetotalers, and wore a special kind of underclothes. In their house there was very little furniture and very few clothes on the beds and the windows were always open.

  C. S. Lewis

  Mother, Father, Clothes

  C. S. Lewis (2009). “The Voyage of the Dawn Treader: The Chronicles of Narnia”, p.1, Harper Collins

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• A modern vegetarian is also a teetotaler, yet there is no obvious connection between consuming vegetables and not consuming fermented vegetables. A drunkard, when lifted laboriously out of the gutter, might well be heard huskily to plead that he had fallen there through excessive devotion to a vegetable diet.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Vegetables, Connections, Gutters

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• I continue to be amazed by our bodies' ability for self-repair. ... Our bodies want to be healthy, if we would just let them. That's what these new research articles are showing: Even after years of beating yourself up with a horrible diet, your body can reverse the damage, open back up the arteries-even reverse the progression of some cancers. Amazing! So it's never too late to start exercising, never too late to stop smoking and never too late to start eating healthier.

  Michael Greger

  Cancer, Exercise, Self

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• But I'm also a vegetarian so there's another factor I guess.

  Radha Mitchell

  Factors

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• I've been a vegetarian since I was 19.

  Erykah Badu

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 8, 2013.

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• The moment I began to understand what was going on with the treatment of animals, it led me more and more in the way of the path I am [on] now, which is a complete vegan.

  Bryan Adams

  Animal, Way, Path

  "Bryan Adams on Animal Rights and Being Vegan". Interview with Anne C, www.peta.org.uk. January 07, 2007.

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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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• The hippopotamus is a vegetarian and looks like a wall. Lions who eat only red meat are sleek and slim. Are nutritionists on the wrong track?

  Erma Bombeck

  Wall, Food, Track

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• Vegetarian: Indian word for lousy hunter.

  Andy Rooney

  Food, Cooking, Hunters

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• For their own good, vegetarians should never be allowed near fine beers and ales. It will only make them loud and belligerent, and they lack the physical strength and aggressive nature to back up any drunken assertions.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Drinking, Beer, Ale

  Anthony Bourdain (2010). “The Nasty Bits: Collected Cuts, Useable Trim, Scraps and Bones”, p.88, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• I am not systematic at all when it comes to religion. I just love life. And I'm not judgmental. And I'm a vegetarian.

  Erykah Badu

  Love Life, Systematic, Judgmental

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• I nearly always find, when I ask a vegetarian if he is a socialist, or a socialist if he is a vegetarian, that the answer is in the affirmative.

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould

  Vegetarianism, Answers, Socialist

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1920). “Modes and Morals”

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• Before I was a vegetarian, I traveled to South Africa and hung out there for a little bit. And they had different animals - did you know different parts of the world have different animals? Because I didn't until I got there! This is what being an American is like. You're like, "Every place has these animals."

  Cameron Esposito

  Animal, Different, World

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Are there any vegetarians among cannibals?

  Bill Vaughan

  Cannibal

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• Many years ago, I was in a Broadway show and I had to wear a fox fur around my shoulders. One day my hand touched one of the fox's legs. It seemed to be in two pieces. Then it dawned on me.... her leg had probally been snapped in two by the steel trap that had caught it.

  Bea Arthur

  Animal, Hands, Years

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• I meditated on my own for some time, read spiritual books, became a vegetarian and had incredible experiences every day, every meditation, where I was just thrown into the infinite - never realizing that other people didn't necessarily have those experiences in meditation that quickly.

  Frederick Lenz

  Spiritual, Book, People

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• Vegetarians, dropping meat, tend to fill up with too much starch. This leaves them no more healthy than meat-eaters, with constipation, indigestion, colds, catarrhs, coughs and chest complaints to plague them. Eating sparingly of breads, cakes, crackers, cookies, macaroni, spaghetti, anything largely starch, is a far step on the road to good health.

  Helen and Scott Nearing

  Vegetarianism, Cake, Healthy

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• I became a vegetarian because I was persuaded that life is as valid for other creatures as it is for humans. I do not need dead animal bodies to keep me alive, strong and healthy. Therefore, I will not kill for food.

  Helen and Scott Nearing

  Strong, Animal, Vegetarianism

  "The Making of a Radical: A Political Autobiography". Book by Scott Nearing, 1973.

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• I think once you start eating people you should stop claiming to be a vegetarian, even if you only eat bad people.

  James Nicoll

  Thinking, People, Eating

  Usenet article, 2003.

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• A pacifist between wars is like a vegetarian between meals.

  Ammon Hennacy

  War, Meals, Pacifist

  "Revolution Of The Heart: Essays On the Catholic Worker". Book edited by Patrick G. Coy, 1988.

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• I'm not trying to win an award for being the best vegetarian, just want to be healthy. Take a salt bath. Do things that my parents were never able to do. I'm blessed to do anything I want so I decide to take the best care of my body and my family in the same way. Holistically. Vitally.

  Erykah Badu

  Blessed, Winning, Awards

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 8, 2013.

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• I've never dated anyone because they were vegetarian, just like I'm gay but don't only go to gay bars. I hang out with people because they are fun, smart, and kind, and if they happen to be veg I'm thrilled.

  Dan Mathews

  Fun, Smart, Gay

  "Senior VP of PETA Dan Mathews: On gay rights, empathy for animals, and getting married under the Las Vegas sign". Interview with Barbi Twins, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I've been vegetarian since the 80s and, lately, even vegan. And I once happened to witness the slaughter of a cow. What atrocity must undergo an animal to satisfy the appetite of those fat
  men who eat hamburgers!

  Anthony Kiedis

  Animal, Men, Atrocities

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• It is a surprisingly close progression from hunting animals to hunting and torturing people... catching and lynching blacks or smoking out Jews during the Holocaust.

  Aviva Cantor

  Animal, Hunting, Lynching

  "The Club, the Yoke, and the Leash: What We Can Learn From the Way a Culture Treats Animals". Ms. magazine, Vol. 12, No. 2, August 1983.

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