Vegetarian Quotes - Page 6

• When people ask me why I don't eat meat or any other animal products, I say, 'Because they are unhealthy and they are the product of a violent and inhumane industry.'

  Casey Affleck

  Animal, Vegetarianism, Meat Industry

  YouTube Channel "peta2TV"/"Casey Affleck's Banned 'Go Vegan' PSA", www.peta2.com. February 06, 2013.

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• Men hunt I think maybe because they have something wrong with their own equipment and they need something else to shoot.

  Pamela Anderson

  Funny Inspirational, Men, Thinking

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• Basically we should stop doing those things that are destructive to the environment, other creatures, and ourselves and figure out new ways of existing.

  Moby

  Vegetarianism, Way, Vegan

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• Among the noblest in the land - Though man may count himself the least - That man I honor and revere, Who without favor, without fear, In the great city dares to stand, The friend of every friendless beast.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Men, Vegetarianism, Land

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “My Complete Poetical Works (Annotated Edition)”, p.665, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Vegetarianism that is me. I don't eat meat. It's been over 10 years. Actually it's been 11 and a half years and I feel good and I feel like I look good and I have energy& and you have to look at what you're putting in your body. I eat vegetables and I eat grain and I take care of myself and I don't think I look that bad, do I?

  Traci Bingham

  Thinking, Vegetables, Years

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• Even if we cannot be completely non-voilent, by being vegetarian we are going in the direction of non-voilence

  Nhat Hanh

  Vegetarianism, Ifs

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• I won't eat anything that has intelligent life, but I'd gladly eat a network executive or a politician.

  Marty Feldman

  Funny, Life, Food

  "He Who Laughs Lasts". Book by Shawn Lovley (p. 51), March 2001.

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• Vegans and vegetarians are commonly baited by nonvegetarians with "what if" scenarios that typically have no relevance to or bearing on most people's real-life situations.

  Joanne Stepaniak

  Real, Vegetarianism, People

  Joanne Stepaniak (2000). “Being Vegan”, McGraw Hill Professional

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• It ill becomes us to invoke in our daily prayers the blessings of God, the Compassionate, if we in turn will not practice elementary compassion toward our fellow creatures.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Prayer, Animal, Blessing

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• If a kid ever realized what was involved in factory farming, they would never touch meat again.

  James Cromwell

  Kids, Meat, Animal Rights

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• As long as there are slaughterhouses there will be battlefields. A vegetarian diet is the acid test of humanitarianism.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Peace, Passion, Vegetarian Diet

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• I turned vegetarian after 9/11. A friend of mine came back from New York and said that he couldn't stand the smell of burnt flesh. It immediately reminded me of a barbecue.

  Alyssa Milano

  New York, Smell, Flesh

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

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  Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Life, Beauty

  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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• If everyone agreed to become vegetarian, leaving little or nothing for livestock, the present 1.4 billion hectares of arable land (3.5 billion acres) would support about 10 billion people.

  E. O. Wilson

  Land, People, Support

  "Earth’s Resources for 2015 Have Already Been Used Up" by Jared Green, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 27, 2015.

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• The gods created certain kinds of beings to replenish our bodies... they are the trees and the plants and the seeds.

  Plato

  Philosophical, Animal, Tree

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• I've always been an animal lover. People should be made aware of all the issues. Some people think that the whole wearing-fur thing is glamorous, but you can look good without it.

  Sadie Frost

  Animal, Thinking, Issues

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• A vegetarian driving a Hummer emits less carbon than a meat eater on a bicycle.

  Louie Psihoyos

  Meat, Driving, Carbon

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• If you could see or feel the suffering you wouldn't think twice. Give back life. Don't eat meat.

  Kim Basinger

  Thinking, Vegetarianism, Giving

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• Being vegan helped me realize I can say and do what I believe is right. That's powerful.

  Alicia Silverstone

  Powerful, Believe, Vegan

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• Cruelty to animals is an enormous injustice; so is expecting those on the lowest rung of the economic ladder to do the dangerous, soul-numbing work of slaughtering sentient beings on our behalf.

  Victoria Moran

  Animal, Soul, Ladders

  Victoria Moran, Adair Moran (2012). “Main Street Vegan: Everything You Need to Know to Eat Healthfully and Live Compassionately in the Real World”, p.14, Penguin

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• People think of animals as if they were vegetables, and that is not right. We have to change the way people think about animals. I encourage the Tibetan people and all people to move toward a vegetarian diet that doesn’t cause suffering.

  Dalai Lama

  Moving, Animal, Thinking

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• If we suffer in the sufferings of others and feel happy in the happiness of others, we are loving God.

  Meher Baba

  Happiness, Suffering Of Others, Christianity

  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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• We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.

  Immanuel Kant

  Dog, Heart, Animal

  "True animal instinct", www.theguardian.com. September 2, 2005.

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  The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man.

  Charles Darwin

  Love, Life, Nature

  Charles Darwin (2015). “Darwin on Evolution: Words of Wisdom from the Father of Evolution”, p.25, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Don't wait for a better world. Start now to create a world of harmony and peace. It is up to you, and it always has been. You may even find the solution at the end of your fork.

  Sharon Gannon

  Waiting, Up To You, World

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