Vegetarianism Quotes - Page 9

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

  Albert Schweitzer

  Philosophical, Animal, Thinking

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• Hitler was a vegetarian. Just goes to show, vegetarianism, not always a good thing. Can in some extreme cases lead to genocide.

  Bill Bailey

  Funny, Humor, Comedy

  "Bill Bailey: Part Troll". Documentary, Comedy, Music, 2004.

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• I've drifted in and out of vegetarianism for years.

  Quentin S. Crisp

  Years

  Source: www.teemingbrain.com

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• Living entity is food for another living entity, it does not mean that I shall eat my children also. There is discretion.

  A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

  Children, Mean, Doe

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• When a human kills an animal for food, he is neglecting his own hunger for justice. Man prays for mercy, but is unwilling to extend it to others. Why should man then expect mercy from God? It's unfair to expect something that you are not willing to give.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Men, Animal, Voice

  Preface to "Food for the Spirit: Vegetarianism and the World Religions" by Steven Rosen, New York: Bala Books, 1987.

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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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• How do we know that we have a right to kill creatures that we are so little above, as dogs, for our curiosity or even for some use to us?

  Alexander Pope

  Dog, Curiosity, Use

  Alexander Pope (1854). “The poetical works of Alexander Pope”, p.46

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• Personally, I don't think pure vegetarianism is a healthy lifestyle. I've often wondered to myself: Does a vegetarian look forward to dinner, ever?

  Julia Child

  Thinking, Healthy, Doe

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• Anyone familiar with the numerous accounts of the Buddha's extraordinary compassion and reverence for living beings - for example his insistence that his monks strain the water they drink lest they inadvertently cause the death of any micro-organisms - could never believe that he would be indifferent to the sufferings of domestic animals caused by their slaughter of food

  Philip Kapleau

  Believe, Animal, Compassion

  Philip Kapleau (1982). “To Cherish All Life: A Buddhist Case for Becoming Vegetarian”, Harper San Francisco

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• The ultimate tendency of liberalism is vegetarianism.

  Norman Mailer

  Tendencies, Liberalism, Ultimate

  Norman Mailer's speech during the City Arts & Lectures Series at Herbst Theater in San Francisco, February 5, 2007.

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• Vegetarianism is a good idea.

  Jerry Springer

  Ideas, Good Ideas

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• The biblical case for vegetarianism does not rest on the view that killing may never be allowable in the eyes of God, rather on the view that killing is always a grave matter. When we have to kill to live we may do so, but when we do not, we should live otherwise.

  Andrew Linzey

  Eye, Biblical, Views

  "Animal Theology". Book by Andrew Linzey, 1994.

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• The salvation of birds and beasts, oneself included - this is the object of Shakyamuni's religious austerities.

  Ikkyu

  Religious, Bird, Austerity

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• The American fast food diet and the meat eating habits of the wealthy around the world support a world food system that diverts food resources from the hungry. A diet higher in whole grains and legumes and lower in beef and other meat is not just healthier for ourselves but also contributes to changing the world system that feeds some people and leaves others hungry.

  Walden Bello

  Meat Eating, People, Support

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• Fishing is a pleasure of retirement, yet the angler has the power to let the fish live or die.

  Zicheng Hong

  Life, Death, Retirement

  Zicheng Hong, Tze-chiang Chao (1959). “A Chinese Garden of Serenity: Epigrams from the Ming Dynasty "Discourses on Vegetable Roots"”

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• Our food system takes abundant grain,which people can't afford,and shrinks it into meat,which better-off people will pay for.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  People, Meat, Pay

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• It seems disingenuous for the intellectual elite of the first world to dwell on the subject of too many babies being born in the second- and third-world nations while virtually ignoring the over-population of cattle and the realities of a food chain that robs the poor of sustenance to feed the rich a steady diet of grain-fed meat.

  Jeremy Rifkin

  Baby, Reality, Intellectual

  "Beyond Beef: The Rise and Fall of the Cattle Culture". Book by Jeremy Rifkin, 1992.

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• Wilbur burst into tears. "I dont want to die," he moaned. "I want to stay alive, right here in my comfortable manure pile with all my friends. I want to breathe the beautiful air and lie in the beautiful sun."

  E. B. White

  Beautiful, Lying, Air

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• If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be vegetarian. We feel better about ourselves and better about the animals, knowing we're not contributing to their pain.

  Linda McCartney

  Wall, Pain, Feel Better

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• I understand, of course, that grain-fed meat is not the cause of the world hunger problem - and eating some of it doesn't directly take food out of the mouths of starving people - but it is, to me, a symbol and a symptom of the basic irrationality of a food system that's divorced from human needs. Therefore, using less meat can be an important way to take responsibility. Making conscious choices about what we eat, based on what the earth can sustain and what our bodies need, can help remind us that our whole society must begin to balance sustainable production with human need.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Responsibility, People, Choices

  "Frances Moore Lappe: Diet for a Small Planet". Interview with Steve Keull and Pat Stone, www.motherearthnews.com. March/April 1982.

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• There's so many vegetarian foods now that are available at the market . The same with drive-throughs. Now, a lot of them serve veggie burgers just like the restaurants are doing. So, it's really very easy.

  Kevin Nealon

  Vegan Food, Burgers, Easy

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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, Vegetables, Giving

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

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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, Giving, Suffering

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• My dream is that people will come to view eating an animal as cannibalism.

  Henry Spira

  Dream, Animal, Views

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• I know, in my soul, that to eat a creature who is raised to be eaten, and who never has a chance to be a real being, is unhealthy. It's like...you're just eating misery. You're eating a bitter life.

  Alice Walker

  Real, Soul, Misery

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