Vegetarian Quotes - Page 28

• And so there I was living in California from Brooklyn, New York, and it was this whole new world for me and I was meeting vegetarians. I thought, let me try this vegetarian thing. I got really into that.

  Warren Cuccurullo

  New York, California, Trying

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• I became a vegetarian 55 years ago, and I think it's one of the more important behavioral changes I ever took. The more I see of the beef industry and so on, I believe that to be true.

  John Elkington

  Believe, Thinking, Years

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Whenever I visit a market and see the chickens crowded together in tiny cages that give them no room to move around and spread their wings and the fish slowly drowning in the air, my heart goes out to them. People have to learn to think about animals in a different way, as sentient beings who love life and fear death. I urge everyone who can to adopt a compassionate vegetarian diet.

  Dalai Lama

  Moving, Heart, Love Life

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• Don't listen to me. I'm a maniac, but the voice in your head, ask it "Is it right to kill 200 million animals simply for fun?". What did it say? Right. There you go.

  Russell Brand

  Fun, Animal, Voice

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• By all that is sacred in our hope for the human race, I conjure those who love happiness and truth to give a fair trial to the vegetable system!

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Race, Vegetarianism, Vegetables

  "A Vindication of Natural Diet". Book by Percy Bysshe Shelley, archive.org. 1813.

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• The moral duty of man consists of imitatingthe moral goodness and beneficence of God,manifested in the creation, toward all His creatures.

  Thomas Paine

  Men, Moral Goodness, Creation

  Thomas Paine (2016). “THOMAS PAINE Ultimate Collection: Political Works, Philosophical Writings, Speeches, Letters & Biography (Including Common Sense, The Rights of Man & The Age of Reason): The American Crisis, The Constitution of 1795, Declaration of Rights, Agrarian Justice, The Republican Proclamation, Anti-Monarchal Essay, Letters to Thomas Jefferson and George Washington…”, p.438, e-artnow

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• Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Philosophical, Animal, Thinking

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• I'm a vegetarian. You're a what? I don't eat meat. How can you not eat meat? I just don't. He says he does not eat meat. What? No meat? No meat. Steak? No... Chickens! No... And what about the sausage? No, no sausage, no meat! He says he does not eat any meat. Not even sausage? I know! What is wrong with him? What is wrong with you? Nothing, I just don't eat meat!

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Meat, Doe, Sausage

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• I'm pretty much a vegetarian, but I do eat fish and sometimes chicken

  Nastassja Kinski

  Sometimes, Chickens, Fishes

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• Is a vegetarian permitted to eat animal crackers?

  George Carlin

  Funny, Sarcastic, Witty

  George Carlin (2002). “Napalm & Silly Putty”, Hyperion

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• Because I'm a chef, I eat out frequently, so it's hard for me to control what I consume in terms of calories. But when I'm at home, I eat what my wife cooks for me. She works hard to avoid making foods that are high in calories and cholesterol, so most of the time, she makes vegetarian dishes.

  Masaharu Morimoto

  Hard Work, Home, Wife

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• The current treatment of animals in the livestock trade definitely renders the consumption of meat as halachically unacceptable as the product of illegitimate means. ... As it is halachically prohibited to harm oneself and as healthy, nutritious vegetarian alternatives are easily available, meat consumption has become halachically unjustifiable.

  David Rosen

  Mean, Animal, Meat Consumption

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• Most people see a documentary about the meat industry and then they become a vegetarian for a week.

  Jason Reitman

  Meat Industry, People, Documentaries

  "Jason Reitman grows up with young adult". Interview with Angela Watercutter, December 15, 2011.

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• But you know, as a kid I would have thought of a vegetarian as a wimp.

  Paul McCartney

  Kids, Wimps, Knows

  Interview with Barbara Ellen, www.theguardian.com. July 17, 2010.

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• To expect life to treat you good is foolish as hoping a bull won't hit you because you are a vegetarian.

  Roseanne Barr

  Bulls, Foolish, Treats

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• It was all so very businesslike that one watched it fascinated. It was pork-making by machinery, pork-making by applied mathematics. And yet somehow the most matter-of-fact person could not help thinking of the hogs; they were so innocent, they came so very trustingly; and they were so very human in their protests - and so perfectly within their rights! They had done nothing to deserve it; and it was adding insult to injury, as the thing was done here, swinging them up in this cold-blooded, impersonal way, without pretence at apology, without the homage of a tear.

  Upton Sinclair

  Apology, Thinking, Insult To Injury

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• I remember eating in school in the years after the Second World War. Most of my friends had miserable portions of Spam with an inedible, glutinous pudding served in containers we called 'coffins.' As a vegetarian, I had a lump of loathsome cheese and some bread.

  Robert Winston

  War, School, Years

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• My parents were vegetarians. I'd show up at school, this giant black kid, with none of the cool clothes and a tofu sandwich and celery sticks.

  Aisha Tyler

  School, Kids, Clothes

  "Aisha Tyler mixes up relationships on 'Friends'". Interview with Lynn Elber, lubbockonline.com. April 23, 2003.

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• I was vegetarian for a long time, and in the last four years I started eating chicken and fish. I feel like it really built up my strength a lot.

  Laura Wilkinson

  Years, Long, Four

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• Economy forced me to become a vegetarian, but I finally starting liking it.

  Abdul Kalam

  Economy, Starting

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• I had an experience in a restaurant one time where there was a large trolley with beef being carved up, and I just transposed different images onto it. Like, what if there was a nice little cow there with a bowtie and a knife carving up humans. I was a vegetarian for a couple of years after that.

  Tobe Hooper

  Couple, Nice, Years

  Interview with Kate and Laura Mulleavy, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 14, 2014.

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• After a conversation with someone that went on all night, but I didn't take much persuading, and the next day I was a vegetarian. It came down to one question, can you be healthy without killing animals? If the answer is 'yes' then the only reason you're killing is because you like the taste. But you can't take a life just because you like its taste.

  Martin Shaw

  Animal, Night, Next Day

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• I first became a vegetarian when I was nine, in response to an argument made by a radical babysitter. My great change - which lasted a couple of weeks - was based on the very simple instinct that it's wrong to kill animals for food.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Couple, Animal, Simple

  "Quitting Meat: A Process Of Change" by Jonathan Safran Foer, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• I would make a poor vegetarian because I adore meat.

  Britt Ekland

  Meat, Poor, Adore

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• Studies indicate that vegetarians often have lower morbidity and mortality rates. . . . Not only is mortality from coronary artery disease lower in vegetarians than in non-vegetarians, but vegetarian diets have also been successful in arresting coronary artery disease. Scientific data suggest positive relationships between a vegetarian diet and reduced risk for obesity, coronary artery disease, hypertension, diabetes mellitus, and some types of cancer.

  John Robbins

  Cancer, Successful, Data

  John Robbins (2010). “The Food Revolution: How Your Diet Can Help Save Your Life and Our World”, p.15, Conari Press

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