Vegetarianism Quotes
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Vegetarianism Quotes & Sayings
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Because we cannot scrub our inner body we need to learn a few skills to help cleanse our tissues, organs, and mind. This is the art of Ayurveda.
— Sebastian Pole
Vegetarianism is the first turning away from life, because life lives on lives. Vegetarians are just eating something that can't run away.
— Joseph Campbell
It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion.
— William Ralph Inge
For innumerable reasons, Mahamati, the Bodhisattva, whose nature is compassion, is not to eat any meat.
— Gautama Buddha
It can be challenge enough to have to eat with myself.
— Jonathan Safran Foer
Let us ask what is best - not what is customary. Let us love temperance - let us be just - let us refrain from bloodshed.
— Seneca The Younger
I was in a sushi bar and it dawned on me - how could I discriminate between a cow and a fish?
— Carre Otis
It almost seems to me that man was not born to be a carnivore.
— Albert Einstein
You put a baby in a crib with an apple and a rabbit. If it eats the rabbit and plays with the apple, I'll buy you a new car.
— Harvey Diamond
Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.
— Albert Schweitzer
The eating of meat extinguishes the seed of great compassion.
— Gautama Buddha
If you step back and look at the data, the optimum amount of red meat you eat should be zero.
— Walter Willett
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
Vegetarianism is an act of the imagination. It reflects an ability to imagine alternatives to the texts of meat.
— Carol J. Adams
How can you eat anything with eyes?
— Will Keith Kellogg
You do not see anything when you experience pure consciousness; you become everything.
— Sebastian Pole
Whether we change our lives or do nothing, we have responded. To do nothing is to do something.
— Jonathan Safran Foer
Iscussing vaccination with a doctor is like discussing vegetarianism with a butcher ...
— George Bernard Shaw
Recognize meat for what it really is: the antibiotic- and pesticide-laden corpse of a tortured animal.
— Ingrid Newkirk
Many things made me become a vegetarian, among them the higher food yield as a solution to world hunger.
— John Denver
Therefore, vegetarianism alone can give us the quality of com-passion, which distinguishes man from the rest of the animal world.
— Morarji Desai
While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered beasts, how can we expect any ideal conditions on this earth?
— George Bernard Shaw
The heart of vegetarians is healed sooner than those of flesh-eaters.
— Virchand Gandhi
One who kill, own life will be shortened; One who harms, will be injured even more
— Akkineni Nagarjuna
Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace.
— Albert Schweitzer
He who, seeking his own happiness, punishes or kills beings who also long for happiness, will not find happiness after his death.
— Gautama Buddha
I love sushi, I love fried chicken, I love steak. But there is a limit to my love,
— Jonathan Safran Foer
The horse and the cow, the rabbit and the cat, the deer and the hare, the pheasant and the lark, please us better as friends than as meat.
— Elisee Reclus
The repugnance to animal food is not the effect of experience, but it is instinct.
— Henry David Thoreau
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
Before you rush off trying to see everything you can, educate yourself.
— Jonathan Safran Foer
I love animals, especially with barbeque sauce.
— J. Richard Singleton
Man is the only animal that can be bored.
— Erich Fromm
To expect life to treat you good is foolish as hoping a bull won't hit you because you are a vegetarian.
— Roseanne Barr
With my time in the limelight, I regret that I didn't use it more to push vegetarianism. I support vegetarian options in the school lunch program.
— Bernhard Goetz
Vegetarianism is a link to perfection and peace.
— River Phoenix
Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread, and pumpkin pie.
— Jim Davis
You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Truly man is the king of beasts, for his brutality exceeds them. We live by the death of others. We are burial places.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
Even as a junkie I stayed true [to vegetarianism] - 'I shall have heroin, but I shan't have a hamburger.' What a sexy little paradox.
— Russell Brand
One who, while seeking happiness, oppresses with violence other living beings who also desire happinesss, will not find happiness hereafter.
— Gautama Buddha
The thought of two thousand people crunching celery at the same time horrified me.
— George Bernard Shaw
If a person does not harm any living being ... and does not kill or cause others to kill - that person is a true spiritual practitioner
— Gautama Buddha
Vegetarianism is always the product of scarcity, of religion, or of ideology, including nutritional fads and fashions.
— Jeffrey Steingarten
The steam of meat darkens the light of the spirit ... One hardly can have virtue when one enjoys meat meals and feasts ...
— Saint Basil
When a human being kills an animal for food, he is neglecting his own hunger for justice.
— Isaac Bashevis Singer
In every respect, vegans appear to enjoy equal or better health in comparison to both vegetarians and non-vegetarians.
— T. Colin Campbell
Ethical vegetarians eat only plant-based food in order to show compassion toward animals and other humans and to benefit the planet.
— Sharon Gannon
The factory farm has succeeded by divorcing people from their food, eliminating farmers, and ruling agriculture by corporate fiat.
— Jonathan Safran Foer
Vegetarianism is a way of life that we should all move toward for economic survival, physical well-being and spiritual integrity.
— Thomas Berry
It is the fate of every truth to be an object of ridicule when it is first acclaimed.
— Albert Schweitzer
Meat isn't murder, it's delicious.
— John Lydon
A man of my spiritual intensity does not eat corpses.
— George Bernard Shaw
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
I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens.
— Isaac Bashevis Singer
As well consult a butcher on the value of vegetarianism as a doctor on the worth of vaccination.
— George Bernard Shaw
Vegetarianism is harmless enough, though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness.
— Robert Hutchison
But John Chapman told us he didnt eat meat cause he couldnt stand for somethin livin to be killed jest to keep him alive.
— Tracy Chevalier
People eat meat and think they will become as strong as an ox, forgetting that the ox eats grass.
— Pino Caruso
I can't think of anything better in the world to be but a vegan.
— Alicia Silverstone
I nearly always find, when I ask a vegetarian if he is a socialist, or a socialist if he is a vegetarian, that the answer is in the affirmative.
— Katharine Fullerton Gerould
Vegetarianism is a good idea.
— Jerry Springer
I hold flesh-food to be unsuited to our species. We err in copying the lower animal world if we are superior to it.
— Mahatma Gandhi
If slaughterhouses had glass walls, the whole world would be vegetarian.
— Linda McCartney
Vegetarianism is the taproot of humanitarianism.
— Leo Tolstoy
I have made my own choice, which is vegetarianism, but it's not the choice I'm imposing on anybody else.
— Jonathan Safran Foer
The are two types of vegetarians: (1) those who have beef with chicken; and (2) those who are too chicken to have beef.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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
The ultimate tendency of liberalism is vegetarianism.
— Norman Mailer
I choose not to make a graveyard of my body for the rotting corpses of dead animals.
— George Bernard Shaw
Some say vegetarianism is an alternative diet, but it is the original diet, the plan designed by God.
— James Marcus
My take is that the optimal approach to food, for health and ethical reasons, may be vegetarianism.
— Nicholas Kristof
In eating ecology love murder vegan vegetarianism flesh eating is unprovoked murder.
— Benjamin Franklin
We should propagate the values of vegetarianism.
— Morarji Desai
Reason and justice tell me there's more love for humanity in electricity and steam than in chastity and vegetarianism.
— Anton Chekhov
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
Some people are still going to want to eat meat. We do agree though that vegetarianism is a healthier diet.
— Dave Stroud
He soon acquired the forlorn look that one sees in vegetarians.
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez