Vegan quotes
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It almost seems to me that man was not born to be a carnivore.
-- Albert Einstein -
There slowly grew up in me an unshakable conviction that we have no right to inflict suffering and death on another living creature, unless there is some unavoidable necessity for it.
-- Albert Schweitzer -
Being vegan just gives you such great karma.
-- Alicia Silverstone -
I can't think of anything better in the world to be but a vegan.
-- Alicia Silverstone -
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People's choice to become vegan, from people I've spoken to, seems motivated by fear.
-- Anthony Bourdain -
Earth was created for all of us, not some of us.
-- Anthony D. Williams -
When humans act with cruelty we characterize them as "animals", yet the only animal that displays cruelty is humanity.
-- Anthony D. Williams -
I'm not a true vegan.
-- Anthony Kiedis -
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We have all heard of the web of life. The way we live threatens to trap us in a web of death.
-- Ban Ki-moon -
Once I learned how to be a healthy vegan by eating the right foods my performance improved dramatically.
-- Brendan Brazier -
Being vegan doesn't make you a stronger, better athlete. But it allows you to make yourself a stronger, better athlete.
-- Brendan Brazier -
The concept that you are not ingesting rotting flesh sort of sums it up for me.
-- Bryan Adams -
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I'll remind you one more time, I've treated a lot of vegans for heart disease.
-- Caldwell Esselstyn -
My best performances were when I was 30 years old, and I was a vegan.
-- Carl Lewis -
The most energetic workers I have encountered in my world travels are the vegetarian miners of Chile.
-- Charles Darwin -
Becoming vegan is the most important and direct change we can immediately make to save the planet and its species.
-- Chris Hedges -
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I would love to make @BarackObama vegan.
-- Courtney Stodden -
I have not really experienced any significant conflict with anyone in regard to my choice to be vegan, although going out to eat is hard sometimes.
-- Daniel Johns -
I've heard there are vegan corn dogs - I don't know if that's true but, jeez, I'd love to eat one of them.
-- Davey Havok -
I am a vegan out of my love and respect for animals, as well as respect for myself.
-- Davey Havok -
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He's as nutty as a vegan T-bone.
-- David Sedaris -
Someone said to me, "How's your rabbit food?" I said, "Fine." ... "How's your vulture food?"
-- Doug Graham -
I became vegan because I saw footage of what really goes on in the slaughterhouses and on the dairy farms.
-- Ellen DeGeneres -
For me, it always has to be about health. That's why I'm a vegan. Well, I don't even do that for my health entirely, I do it for animals.
-- Emily Deschanel -
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I'm a vegan, but you can be really unhealthy as a vegan, too.
-- Emily Deschanel -
I've been a vegan for about 15 years.
-- Emily Deschanel -
Vegan food is soul food in its truest form. Soul food means to feed the soul. And, to me, your soul is your intent. If your intent is pure, you are pure.
-- Erykah Badu -
I'm really interested in vegan nail polishes, because a lot of nail polishes have a lot of toxins in them.
-- G. Hannelius -
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I thought it was very elegant, a wonderful opening. The vegans seemed so surprised-God knows what they get to eat.
-- Gael Greene -
You cannot live a nonviolent life as long as you are consuming violence. Please consider going vegan.
-- Gary L. Francione -
If you think that being vegan is difficult, imagine how difficult it is for animals that you are not vegan.
-- Gary L. Francione -
Any serious social, political, and economic change must include veganism.
-- Gary L. Francione -
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They are nonhuman persons. They are not food. If animals matter morally at all, there is one and only one rational response: go vegan. Everything else is just participation in animal exploitation.
-- Gary L. Francione -
If you are not vegan, please consider going vegan. It’s a matter of nonviolence. Being vegan is your statement that you reject violence to other sentient beings, to yourself, and to the environment, on which all sentient beings depend.
-- Gary L. Francione -
There is nothing more 'elitist' than thinking our palate pleasure can ever justify a second of suffering or a single death. Please go vegan.
-- Gary L. Francione -
Nobody really needs a mink coat... Except the mink.
-- Glenda Jackson -
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What Ive been developing is a vegan fast food chain and vegan food markets.
-- Heather Mills -
I'm not telling people to go vegan overnight.
-- Heather Mills -
I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens.
-- Isaac Bashevis Singer -
In their behavior toward creatures, all men are Nazis. Human beings see oppression vividly when they're the victims. Otherwise they victimize blindly and without a thought.
-- Isaac Bashevis Singer -
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If a kid ever realized what was involved in factory farming, they would never touch meat again.
-- James Cromwell -
Stop being a vegan and start enjoying what you eat.
-- Jamie Oliver -
I'm a vegan. I respect the environment, and I do my best to spread the importance of such an issue.
-- Jared Leto -
In my experience of vegan food it tends to be a symphony of beige.
-- Jay Rayner -
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I do recommend the vegan diet because you wake up and feel great!
-- Jennifer Lopez -
The vegan diet is obviously lacking whatever essential nutrient it is that makes people likeable.
-- Jim Goad -
It takes nothing away from a human to be kind to an animal.
-- Joaquin Phoenix -
Food is really and truly the most effective medicine.
-- Joel Fuhrman -
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While vegans and meat-eaters disagree, we can all be united in our fear and hatred for the horror that is factory farming.
-- Joel Salatin -
It's always better to feed your enemies than to fight with them.
-- John Robbins -
A reduction in meat consumption is the most powerful single act that you can take to halt the destruction of our environment and preserve our natural resources.
-- John Robbins -
Murdering someone would surely prove that you are capable of killing, but it wouldn't be the most reasonable way to understand why you shouldn't do it.
-- Jonathan Safran Foer -
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I make a vegan baked ziti. And even though that doesn't sound enjoyable, it really is.
-- Lea Michele -
I'm a vegan. It makes me feel really good and bright.
-- Lea Michele -
I call myself a vegetarian with vegan tendencies.
-- Leona Lewis -
My body will not be a tomb for other creatures.
-- Leonardo da Vinci -
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The hardest part about being vegan is shoes. I mean, really, that's the only difficult part, finding shoes that don't have leather on them.
-- Lisa Edelstein -
What would we do if we didn't try? We have to try.
-- Lyle Lovett -
Vegan or not, gluten-free or not, Erin McKenna's donuts are the best I've had in 20 years, without exception.
-- Mark Bittman -
I enjoy cooking and baking. Alicia Silverstone's vegan cookbook is awesome.
-- Mary-Louise Parker -
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I'm a level 5 vegan, I don't eat anything that casts a shadow.
-- Matt Groening -
None so blind as those who will not see.
-- Matthew Henry -
The most ethical diet just so happens to be the most environmentally sound diet and just so happens to be the healthiest.
-- Michael Greger -
I thought a vegan diet would be too difficult, being on the road so much, but it's been far easier than I thought.
-- Michelle Forbes -
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I'm a vegan. I lost 150 pounds because of being a vegan.
-- Mike Tyson -
I have been following a vegan diet now since the 1980s, and find it not only healthier, but also much more attractive than the chunks of meat that were on my plate as a child.
-- Neal Barnard -
A vegan diet takes care of most of what we need to do.
-- Neal Barnard -
A vegan riding a hummer contributes less to greenhouse gas emissions than a meat eater riding a bicycle.
-- Paul Watson -
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It were much better that a sentient being should never have existed, than that it should have existed only to endure unmitigated misery.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley -
Animal factories are one more sign of the extent to which our technological capacities have advanced faster than our ethics.
-- Peter Singer -
You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson -
We consume the carcasses of creatures of like appetites, passions and organs with our own, and fill the slaughterhouses daily with screams of pain and fear.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson -
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I thought being vegan was going to be some really horrible way of life that had no flavor.
-- Robin Quivers -
I'm really not an angry vegan, but human beings are ***** rude.
-- Russell Simmons -
We can live as we were meant to live - simply, joyously, of and on the earth. We can live with all our effort and with pure happiness.
-- Scott Jurek -
The really great thing about my shoe store is that there's not one dead animal in it.
-- Stella McCartney -
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Science that fails to embrace all living beings is far more dangerous than any virus!
-- Steve Simmons -
In every respect, vegans appear to enjoy equal or better health in comparison to both vegetarians and non-vegetarians.
-- T. Colin Campbell -
Nothing has benefited me more physically, mentally and most important spiritually, then adapting a vegan diet. The best decision I have made as a human for me and the planet.
-- Tim Shieff -
Being vegan is a glorious adventure. It touches every aspect of my life -- my relationships, how I relate to the world
-- Victoria Moran -
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Once a vegan, we are always so, because our motivation is not personal and self-oriented, but is based on concern for others and on our undeniable interconnectedness with other living beings.
-- Will Tuttle -
A high percentage of vegan men look like lesbians.
-- Dov Davidoff -
Though I'm vegan and advocate that others eat a plant-based diet, I know that many people aren't quite ready to take that step in whole.
-- Kathy Freston -
Make your next car electric, put solar panels on your roof, and go vegan.
-- Leilani Munter -
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Being shorter or taller depends on details of the diet. Vegetarians can obtain a balanced diet, with sufficient complete protein, vitamins, minerals and micro-nutrients. It's trickier for vegans but it can be done.
-- Richard H. Steckel -
The best thing you can do for the planet is be vegan or vegetarian.
-- William McNamara
