Vegetarian Quotes - Page 27

• The vegetarian movement ought to fill with gladness the souls of those who have at heart the realization of God's kingdom upon earth, not because vegetarianism itself is such an important step towards the realization of this kingdom (all real steps are equally important or unimportant), but because it serves as a criterion by which we know that the pursuit of moral perfection on the part of man is genuine and sincere.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Real, Heart, Men

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• I prefer not to eat food that has a face.

  Joanna Lumley

  Food, Science, Faces

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• In an ideal world, one populated by vegetarians and Esperanto speakers, derivatives would be used for one thing only: reducing levels of risk. The list of individual traders who have lost more than a billion dollars at a time betting on derivatives is not short.

  John Lanchester

  Business, Risk, Lists

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• It is not consistent with truth that a man should sacrifice half of his stomach only to God-that he should be sober in drinking, but intemperate in eating. Your belly is your God, your liver is your temple, your paunch is your altar, the cook is your priest, and the fat steam is your Holy Spirit; the seasonings and the sauces are your chrisms, and your belchings are your prophesizing...[such] a grossly- feeding Christian is akin to lions and wolves rather than God. Our Lord Jesus called Himself Truth and not habit.

  Tertullian

  Christian, Jesus, Drinking

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• It is a great delusion to suppose that flesh-meat of any kind is essential to health. Considerably more than three parts of the work in the world is done by men who never taste anything but vegetable, farinaceous food, and that of the simplest kind. There are more strength-producing properties in wholemeal flour, peas, beans, lentils, oatmeal, roots, and other vegetables of the same class, than there are beef or mutton, poultry or fish, or animal food of any description whatever.

  Catherine Booth

  Men, Animal, Oatmeal

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• The cucumber and the tomato are both fruit; the avocado is a nut. To assist with the dietary requirements of vegetarians, on the first Tuesday of the month a chicken is officially a vegetable.

  Jasper Fforde

  Food, Vegetables, Nuts

  Jasper Fforde (2010). “Shades of Grey”, p.51, Hachette UK

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• My favourite restaurant of all time is Mildreds on London's Lexington Street. It's a little vegetarian restaurant and is really fun and healthy, too. It was the first place I went to in London and really liked. That was 20 years ago, and it is still my favourite.

  David Walliams

  Fun, Years, Healthy

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• There's a lot of evidence that fruits and vegetables are beneficial for reducing the risk of stroke.

  Walter Willett

  Vegetables, Risk, Fruit

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• Vegetarians claim to be immune from most diseases but they have been known to die from time to time.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Food, Disease, Claims

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• The evidence that folic acid reduces the risk of heart disease is pretty strong. [...] And fruits and vegetables are a major source of folic acid.

  Walter Willett

  Strong, Heart, Vegetables

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• I'm not a vegetarian! I'm a dessertarian!

  Bill Watterson

  Funny Food, Dessert, Wordplay

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• Once we experience and feel this inter-dependence of all living beings,we will cease to hurt, humiliate, exploit and kill another. We will want to free all sentient beings from suffering. This is karuna, compassion, which in turn gives rise to the responsibility to create happiness and its causes for all.

  Suresh Jindal

  Hurt, Responsibility, Compassion

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• Nobody can possibly be so hungry that they need to take a life in order to feel satisfied - they don't after all, take a human life, so why take the life of an animal? Both are conscious beings with the same determination to survive. It is habit, and laziness and nothing else.

  Steven Morrissey

  Determination, Animal, Order

  "Autobiography" by Steven Morrissey, London: Penguin Classics, 2013.

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• Vegetarians, and their Hezbollah-like splinter faction, the vegans ... are the enemy of everything good and decent in the human spirit.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Food, Cooking, Enemy

  Anthony Bourdain (2013). “Kitchen Confidential”, p.78, A&C Black

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• Things derive their being and nature by mutual dependence and are nothing in themselves.

  Akkineni Nagarjuna

  Interdependence, Mutual, Dependence

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• Going meat-free can make a huge difference. Studies show that vegetarians are, on average, 10 to 20 pounds lighter than meat-eaters and that a vegetarian diet reduces our risk of heart disease by 40 percent and adds seven or more years to our lifespan.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Heart, Vegetarian Diet, Average

  "The Skinny on our Growing Girth" by Ingrid Newkirk, www.huffingtonpost.com. Sptember 26,2009.

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• When I met my wife 20 plus years ago, she was a vegetarian, so I was the closest thing to the devil that she had ever met.

  Michael Symon

  Years, Wife, Devil

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• Electricity and magnetism are those forces of nature by which people who know nothing about electricity and magnetism can explain everything.

  Egon Friedell

  People, Electricity, Force

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• I eat mostly vegetarian. I love meat, but I think it should be enjoyed on occasion - like cheesecake or blackouts.

  Nadia Giosia

  Thinking, Meat, Should

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• Eating a vegetarian diet, walking (exercising) everyday, and meditating is considered radical. Allowing someone to slice your chest open and graft your leg veins in your heart is considered normal and conservative.

  Dean Ornish

  Heart, Exercise, Vegetarian Diet

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• The real challenge for a vegan is getting vitamin B and omega-3s, but you can get those in a vegetarian supplement.

  Emily Deschanel

  Real, Challenges, Vitamins

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• To love God in the most practical way is to love our fellow beings. If we feel for others in the same way as we feel for our own dear ones, we love God.

  Meher Baba

  Love, Dear Ones, Way

  Meher Baba (1977). “The Mastery of Consciousness: An Introduction and Guide to Practical Mysticism and Methods of Spiritual Development”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• I don't know what's wrong with me. When I was a girl they had this aviary in one of my foster homes and I'd go in when no one was looking and put out watermelon rinds to feed the flies. There were all these flies that would have starved if I hadn't, and I'm not even wild about flies. They say it makes you a gentler person if you don't eat meat. But wasn't Hitler a vegetarian?

  Susan Strasberg

  Girl, Home, Meat

  Susan Strasberg (1992). “Marilyn and Me-21.95”, Smithmark Publishers

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• Four legs good, two legs bad.

  George Orwell

  Animal, Two, Legs

  Animal Farm ch. 3 (1945)

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• There is something about veganism that is not easy, but the difficulty is not inherent in veganism, but in our culture.

  Will Tuttle

  Culture, Vegan, Easy

  Will Tuttle (2016). “World Peace Diet (Tenth Anniversary Edition): Eating for Spiritual Health and Social Harmony”, p.207

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