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Vegetarianism Quotes

Vegetarianism Quotes of Famous People

I do not want to make my stomach a graveyard of dead animals. - George Bernard Shaw
If you could feel or see the suffering, you wouldn't think twice. Give back life. Don't eat meat. - Kim Basinger
I’m opposed to fur and any kind of use of animal products. I don’t eat them, and I don’t wear them. I’m not for the killing of any creature, whether it be seals, cows, dogs or any animal. So anytime it comes to any kind of animal cruelty, I’m totally against it. - Bryan Adams
Refrain at all times such foods as cannot be procured without violence and oppression. For know that all the inferior Creatures, when hurt, do cry and send forth their complaints to their Maker. - Thomas Tryon
A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite. And to act so is immoral. – Leo Tolstoy
Every time we sit down to eat, we make a choice. Please choose vegetarianism. Do it for … animals. Do it for the environment, and do it for your health. - Alec Baldwin
I do feel that spiritual progress does demand at some stage that we should cease to kill our fellow creatures for the satisfaction of our bodily wants. – Mahatma Gandhi
I am a very strict vegetarian. ...I just really, really love animals, and I act on my values. - Natalie Portman
As custodians of the planet it is our responsibility to deal with all species with kindness, love and compassion. That these animals suffer through human cruelty is beyond understanding. Please help to stop this madness. - Richard Gere
If a man aspires towards a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from injury to animals. - Leo Tolstoy
Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends. - George Bernard Shaw
If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian. - Paul McCartney
I have no doubt that it is a part of the destiny of the human race, in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals, as surely as the savage tribes have left off eating each other when they came in contact with the more civilized. – Henry David Thoreau
Vegetarianism is a greater progress. From the greater clearness of head and quicker apprehension motivated him to become a vegetarian. Flesh-eating is an unprovoked murder. – Benjamin Franklin
We all love animals. Why do we call some "pets" and others "dinner? - KD Lang
We manage to swallow flesh, only because we do not think of the cruel and sinful thing we do. - Rabinadranath Tagore
My will contains directions for my funeral which will be followed not by mourning coaches but by oxen, sheep, flocks of poultry, and a small travelling aquarium of live fish, all wearing scarves in honour of the man who perished rather than eat his fellow-creatures. It will be, with the exception of Noah's Ark, the most remarkable thing of the kind ever seen. - George Bernard Shaw
Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet. – Albert Einstein
To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being. I should be unwilling to take the life of a lamb for the sake of the human body. – Mahatma Gandhi
To a man whose mind is free there is something even more intolerable in the sufferings of animals than in the sufferings of man? For with the latter it is at least admitted that suffering is evil and that the man who causes it is a criminal. But thousands of animals are uselessly butchered every day without a shadow of remorse. If any man were to refer to it, he would be thought ridiculous. And that is the unpardonable crime. – Romain Rolland
Life is life whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat or a man. The idea of difference is a human conception for man's own advantage. - Sri Aurobindo
Plant life instead of animal food is the keystone of regeneration. Jesus used bread instead of flesh and wine in place of blood at the Lord’s Supper. - Richard Wagner
I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being. - Abraham Lincoln
Any religion or philosophy which is not based on a respect for life is not a true religion or philosophy. Dr Albert Schweitzer
A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite. And to act so is immoral. -
Henry David Thoreau
Pythagoras on of the oldest Philosophers in Europe, after he had travelled among the Easter nations for the sake of knowledge & conversation with their Priests & Judges seen their manners, taught his scholars that all man should be friends to all man & even to dumb beasts. This was the religion of the sons of Noah established by Moses & Christ & is still in force. – Sir Isaac Newton
Veganism has given me a higher level of awareness and spirituality. - Dexter Scott King