Vegetarianism Quotes

• If a man aspires towards a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from injury to animals.

  Albert Einstein

  Zoos, Cat, Animal

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• If anyone wants to save the planet, all they have to do is just stop eating meat. That's the single most important thing you could do. It's staggering when you think about it. Vegetarianism takes care of so many things in one shot: ecology, famine, cruelty.

  Paul McCartney

  Thinking, Important, Meat

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• If a man can control his body and mind and thereby refrains from eating animal flesh and wearing animal products, I say he will really be liberated.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Animal, Men

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• Vegetarianism is a way of living consciously on the planet.

  Amy Smart

  Way, Living Consciously, Planets

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• Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.

  Samuel Butler

  Funny, Friendship, Sarcastic

  Samuel Butler (2008). “The Note-books of Samuel Butler: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.126, ReadHowYouWant.com

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  As long as man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other.

  Pythagoras

  Health, Animal, Men

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• The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid.

  Isaiah

  Peace, Lying, Kids

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• I do not see any reason why animals should be slaughtered to serve as human diet when there are so many substitutes. After all, man can live without meat.

  Dalai Lama

  Men, Animal, Vegetarian Diet

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• Thousands of people who say they "love" animals sit down once or twice a day to enjoy the flesh of creatures who have been utterly deprived of everything that could make their lives worth living and who endured the awful suffering and the terror of the abattoirs...

  Jane Goodall

  Inspiring, Animal, People

  "The Ten Trusts". Book by Jane Goodall, ‎Marc Bekoff, 2003.

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  If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.

  Paul McCartney

  Wall, Food, Health

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

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• The most important part of vegetarianism is the real shift in consciousness that takes place. There is a true correlation between our food choices and violence in the world. The only person who would disagree with that is a meat-eater

  Peter Burwash

  Real, Choices, Important

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• I've been a vegetarian for years and years. I'm not judgemental about others who aren't, I just feel I cannot eat or wear living creatures.

  Drew Barrymore

  Years, Judging, Judgemental

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• The idea of vegetarianism is of immense value; it is based on great reverence for life.

  Rajneesh

  Ideas, Reverence For Life, Immense

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• Vegetarianism is the cure for 99% of the world's problems. Think about it.

  Casey Kasem

  Thinking, World, Problem

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• Many things made me become a vegetarian, among them the higher food yield as a solution to world hunger.

  John Denver

  Yield, World, Vegan Food

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• Try vegetarianism and you will be surprised: meditation becomes far easier. Love becomes more subtle, loses its grossness — becomes more sensitive but less sensuous, becomes more prayerful and less sexual. And your body also starts taking on a different vibe. You become more graceful, softer, more feminine, less aggressive, more receptive.

  Rajneesh

  Love Is, Space, Meditation

  "From R to Z".

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• Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Life, Peace, Honesty

  "Innovate Like Edison : The Five-Step System for Breakthrough Business Success". Book by Michael J. Gelb and Sarah Miller Caldicott, p. 67,

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• Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Animal, Rights, Vegetarian Diet

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• 'Thou shalt not kill' does not apply to murder of one's own kind only, but to all living beings and this commandment was inscribed in the human breast long before it was proclaimed from Sinai.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Philosophical, Compassion, Animal

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• Food affects the mind. For the practice of any kind of yoga, vegetarianism is absolutely necessary since it makes the mind more pure and harmonious.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Yoga, Practice, Mind

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• For fear of causing terror to living beings, Mahamati, let the Bodhisattva who is disciplining himself to attain compassion, refrain from eating flesh.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Compassion, Eating Meat

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• Coexistence: what the farmer does with the turkey - until Thanksgiving.

  Mike Connolly

  Thanksgiving, Turkeys, Bird

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• To become vegetarian is to step into the stream which leads to nirvana.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Steps, Animal Rights

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• He who, seeking his own happiness, punishes or kills beings who also long for happiness, will not find happiness after his death.

  Gautama Buddha

  Happiness, Buddhist, Punishment

  Gautama Buddha (2013). “The Dhammapada”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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• The beef industry has contributed to more American deaths than all the wars of this century, all natural disasters, and all automobile accidents combined.

  Neal Barnard

  War, Native American, Animal

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