Vegetarianism Quotes - Page 13

• Flesh-eating by humans is unnecessary, irrational, anatomically unsound, unhealthy, unhygienic, uneconomic, unaesthetic, unkind and unethical. May I elaborate?

  Helen and Scott Nearing

  Flesh Eating, May, Unnecessary

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• Hindus and Westerners alike see in the meat-eating taboos of India a triumph of morals over appetite. This is a dangerous misrepresentation of cultural processes. Hindu vegetarianism was a victory not of spirit over matter but of reproductive over productive forces.

  Marvin Harris

  Meat Eating, Victory, Triumph

  Marvin Harris (2011). “Cannibals and Kings: Origins of Cultures”, p.229, Vintage

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• He who has renounced all violence towards all living beings, weak or strong, who neither kills nor causes others to kill - him I do call a holy man.

  Gautama Buddha

  Strong, Men, Violence

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• Ethics has not only to do with mankind but with the animal creation as well. This is witnessed in the purpose of St. Francis of Assisi. Thus we shall arrive that ethics is reverence for all life. This is the ethic of love widened universally. It is the ethic of Jesus now recognized as a necessity of thought...Only a universal ethic which embraces every living creature can put us in touch with the universe and the will which is there manifest.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Jesus, Animal, St Francis Of Assisi

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• The inhabitants are numerous and happy... Throuhout the country the people do not kill any living creature, nor drink intoxicating liquor, they do not keep pigs and fowl, and do not sell live cattle; in the markets there are no butcher shops and no dealers in intoxicating drink... Only the Chandalas (lowest cast) are fisherman and hunters and sell flesh meat.

  Faxian

  Country, Pigs, People

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• See all living beings as your father or mother, and love them as if you were their child

  Atisa

  Mother, Children, Father

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• Some people are still going to want to eat meat. We do agree though that vegetarianism is a healthier diet.

  Dave Stroud

  People, Meat, Want

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• One who loves Krishna will give Him whatever He wants, and he avoids offering anything which is undesirable or unasked for. Thus, meat, fish and eggs should not be offered to Krishna...Vegetables, grains, fruits, milk and water are the proper foods for human beings and are prescribed by Lord Krishna Himself. Whatever else you eat, can not be offered to Him, since He will not accept it.

  A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

  Offering, Vegetables, Eggs

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• It is said about Lord Buddha sadaya-hrdaya darsita-pasu-ghatam. He saw the whole human race going to hell by this animal killing. So he appeared to teach ahimsa, nonviolence, being compassionate on the animals and human beings. In the Christian religion also, it is clearly stated, 'Thou shall not kill'. So everywhere animal killing is restricted. In no religion the unnecessary killing of animals is allowed. But nobody is caring. The killing process is increasing, and so are the reactions. Every ten years you will find a war. These are the reactions.

  A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

  Christian, War, Caring

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• I think vegetarianism is a crucial ethical choice for an individual and a society.

  Bernhard Goetz

  Thinking, Choices, Ethical

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• I wish that more and more adventurous young men would give up the gun in favour of the camera.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Giving Up, Gun, Men

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• I think of veganism humbly and holistically. It's about taking personal responsibility in a world so full of needless suffering. It's challenging one's self to open one's eyes and question society's assumptions and habits. It's about critical thinking and compassion and how we would like to see the world evolve.

  Michael Greger

  Eye, Responsibility, Thinking

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• It is beyond doubt that the chief motive of Vegetarianism is the humane one. Questions of hygiene and of economy both play their part, and an important part, in a full discussion of food reform; but the feeling which underlies and animates the whole movement is the instinctive horror of butchery, especially the butchery of the more highly organized animals, so human, so near akin to man.

  Henry Stephens Salt

  Men, Animal, Play

  "The Humanities of Diet". Book by Henry Stephens Salt, 1897.

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• As well consult a butcher on the value of vegetarianism as a doctor on the worth of vaccination.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Doctors, Vaccines, Butchers

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• I know vegetarians don't like to hear this, but God made an awful lot of land that's good for nothing but grazing.

  Molly Ivins

  Land, Awful, Made

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• All red meat contains saturated fat. There is no such thing as truly lean meat. Trimming away the edge ring of fat around a steak really does not lower the fat content significantly. People who have red meat (trimmed or untrimmed) as a regular feature of their diets suffer in far greater numbers from heart attacks and strokes.

  Michael Klaper

  Heart, Numbers, People

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• We have found ways... to torture and maim animals and make their lives a misery, almost a living hell... in the multinational food industry... and in laboratories where often the most important thing being researched is the latest in lipstick or face cream.

  David Oderberg

  Animal, Important, Way

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• A vegetarian is not a person who lives on vegetables, any more than a Catholic is a person who lives on cats.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Cat, Vegetables, Persons

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• We cannot separate ourselves from those whom we call the 'lower' animals. They are lower in the scale of evolution, but they, like us, are members of the One Family. We must not take away the life of any creature. Indeed, we must never take away that which we cannot give. And as we cannot restore a dead creature to life, we have no right to take away its' life.

  Dada Vaswani

  Animal, Giving, Evolution

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• To consider yourself an environmentalist and still eat meat is like saying you're a philanthropist who doesn't give to charity.

  Howard Lyman

  Giving, Meat, Charity

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