quotes about Vegetarianism
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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 -
One who kill, own life will be shortened; One who harms, will be injured even more
-- Akkineni Nagarjuna -
Vegetarian food leaves a deep impression on our nature. If the whole world adopts vegetarianism, it can change the destiny of humankind.
-- Albert Einstein -
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 BaldwinSource : "Meet Your Meat". Documentary Film, May 01, 2002.
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Vegetarianism is a way of living consciously on the planet.
-- Amy Smart -
I think vegetarianism is a crucial ethical choice for an individual and a society.
-- Bernhard Goetz -
With my time in the limelight, I regret that I didnt use it more to push vegetarianism. I support vegetarian options in the school lunch program.
-- Bernhard Goetz -
It's true. Hitler was a vegetarian. Just goes to show, vegetarianism, not always a good thing. Can in some extreme cases lead to genocide.
-- Bill Bailey -
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Vegetarianism can easily reach religious proportions. Refraining from meat on moral grounds serves to dignify feelings of guilt toward sad-eyed, furry creatures and substitutes righteousness for squeamishness.
-- Bill Griffith -
I was in a sushi bar and it dawned on me - how could I discriminate between a cow and a fish?
-- Carre Otis -
It is not how we breed, keep and kill animals for human consumption that has been the impetus for vegetarianism for thousands of years. It is that we breed, keep and kill animals for human consumption. Throughout the centuries the common thread in the arguments against eating animals is the fact that since we have no nutritional requirement for the flesh or fluids of animals, killing them to simply satisfy our taste-buds or habits or customs amounts to senseless slaughter, and senseless slaughter is no small thing.
-- Colleen Patrick-Goudreau -
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 -
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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 -
I became a vegetarian out of compassion for animals and to live as healthy as possible. I realized soon after that I was truly concerned with nonviolent consumption and my own health, a vegan diet was the best decision.
-- Davey Havok -
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 -
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 -
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The distinction between meat and other animal products is total nonsense. Vegetarianism is a morally incoherent position. If you regard animals as members of the moral community, you really don’t have a choice but to go vegan.
-- Gary L. Francione -
The average age (longevity) of a meat eater is 63. I am on the verge of 85 and still work as hard as ever. I have lived quite long enough and am trying to die; but I simply cannot do it. A single beef-steak would finish me; but I cannot bring myself to swallow it. I am oppressed with a dread of living forever. That is the only disadvantage of vegetarianism.
-- George Bernard Shaw -
Vegetarians, dropping meat, tend to fill up with too much starch. This leaves them no more healthy than meat-eaters, with constipation, indigestion, colds, catarrhs, coughs and chest complaints to plague them. Eating sparingly of breads, cakes, crackers, cookies, macaroni, spaghetti, anything largely starch, is a far step on the road to good health.
-- Helen and Scott Nearing -
Flesh-eating by humans is unnecessary, irrational, anatomically unsound, unhealthy, unhygienic, uneconomic, unaesthetic, unkind and unethical. May I elaborate?
-- Helen and Scott Nearing -
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I became a vegetarian because I was persuaded that life is as valid for other creatures as it is for humans. I do not need dead animal bodies to keep me alive, strong and healthy. Therefore, I will not kill for food.
-- Helen and Scott NearingSource : "The Making of a Radical: A Political Autobiography". Book by Scott Nearing, 1973.
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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 SaltSource : "The Humanities of Diet". Book by Henry Stephens Salt, 1897.
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Now there is apparently a causal link between ***** addiction and vegetarianism.
-- Irvine Welsh -
If there would come a voice from God saying, 'I'm against vegetarianism!' I would say, 'Well, I am for it!' This is how strongly I feel in this regard.
-- Isaac Bashevis Singer -
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People often say that humans have always eaten animals, as if this is a justification for continuing the practice. According to this logic, we should not try to prevent people from murdering other people, since this has also been done since the earliest of times.
-- Isaac Bashevis Singer -
To be a vegetarian is to disagree - to disagree with the course of things today... starvation, cruelty - we must make a statement against these things. Vegetarianism is my statement. And I think it's a strong one.
-- Isaac Bashevis Singer -
Some say vegetarianism is an alternative diet, but it is the original diet, the plan designed by God.
-- James Marcus -
Vegans and vegetarians are commonly baited by nonvegetarians with "what if" scenarios that typically have no relevance to or bearing on most people's real-life situations.
-- Joanne StepaniakSource : Joanne Stepaniak (2000). “Being Vegan”, McGraw Hill Professional
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I can't count the times that upon telling someone I am vegetarian, he or she responded by pointing out an inconsistency in my lifestyle or trying to find a flaw in an argument I never made. (I have often felt that my vegetarianism matters more to such people than it does to me.)
-- Jonathan Safran Foer -
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 serves as the criterion by which we know that the pursuit of moral perfection on the part of humanity is genuine and sincere.
-- Leo Tolstoy -
My body will not be a tomb for other creatures.
-- Leonardo da Vinci -
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I won't eat anything that has intelligent life, but I'd gladly eat a network executive or a politician.
-- Marty FeldmanSource : "He Who Laughs Lasts". Book by Shawn Lovley (p. 51), March 2001.
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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 HarrisSource : Marvin Harris (2011). “Cannibals and Kings: Origins of Cultures”, p.229, Vintage
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The factory farm is . . . an obvious moral evil so sickening and horrendous. . . All this so we can have our accustomed veal or lamb or fried chicken or pork chop or hot dog.
-- Matthew ScullySource : Matthew Scully (2011). “Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy”, p.138, Souvenir Press
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If anyone wants to save the planet, all they have to do is just stop eating meat. That's the single most important thing you could do. It's staggering when you think about it. Vegetarianism takes care of so many things in one shot: ecology, famine, cruelty.
-- Paul McCartney -
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The most important part of vegetarianism is the real shift in consciousness that takes place. There is a true correlation between our food choices and violence in the world. The only person who would disagree with that is a meat-eater
-- Peter Burwash -
The first man . . . ventured to call food and nourishment the parts that had a little before bellowed and cried, moved and lived. How could his eyes endure the slaughter when throats were slit and hides flayed and limbs torn from limb? How could his nose endure the stench? How was it that the pollution did not turn away his taste, which made contact with the sores of others and sucked juices and serums from mortal wounds?
-- Plutarch -
You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson -
When I was old enough to realize all meat was killed, I saw it as an irrational way of using our power, to take a weaker thing and mutilate it. It was like the way bullies would take control of younger kids in the schoolyard.
-- River PhoenixSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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Vegetarianism is a link to perfection and peace.
-- River PhoenixSource : "Vegetarian Times", 1988.
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Vegetarianism is a link to perfection and peace. But it's a small link. There are lots of other issues: apartheid , vivisection, political prisoners, the arms race. There's so much going on in this world today, so much ignorance among people. That's not to say I'm not standing amongst everybody. But the point is, what can we do now? That's the thing about vegetarianism; it's an individual's decision and it's something you have control over. How many things do we really have control over?
-- River Phoenix -
The steam of meat darkens the light of the spirit...One hardly can have virtue when one enjoys meat meals and feasts...
-- Saint Basil -
Animals are nicer than humans and they're conscious beings. If you stick your grandmother in an oven, she will probably be tasty. But is that any reason to eat your grandmother?
-- Steven Morrissey -
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Vegetarianism that is me. I don't eat meat. It's been over 10 years. Actually it's been 11 and a half years and I feel good and I feel like I look good and I have energy& and you have to look at what you're putting in your body. I eat vegetables and I eat grain and I take care of myself and I don't think I look that bad, do I?
-- Traci Bingham -
It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion.
-- William Ralph IngeSource : Outspoken Essays: First Series "Patriotism" (1919)
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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 -
Vegetarianism -- You are what you eat, and who wants to be a lettuce?
-- Pete Burns -
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I've drifted in and out of vegetarianism for years.
-- Quentin S. Crisp -
Vegetarianism is an act of the imagination. It reflects an ability to imagine alternatives to the texts of meat.
-- Carol J. AdamsSource : Carol J. Adams (1990). “The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory”, Continuum
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Vegetables contain more nutriment than an equal amount of dead flesh. This will sound a surprising and incredible statement to many people, because they have been brought up to believe that they cannot exist unless they defile themselves with flesh, and this delusion is so widely spread that it is difficult to awaken the average man from it.
-- Charles Webster LeadbeaterSource : Charles Webster Leadbeater (1909). “Some Glimpses of Occultism: Ancient and Modern”
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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 RollandSource : Romain Rolland (1913). “Jean-Christophe: The market-place”
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I advance no exaggerated or fanciful claim for Vegetarianism. It is not, as some have asserted, a "panacea" for human ills; it is something much more rational - an essential part of the modern humanitarian movement, which can make no true progress without it. Vegetarianism is the diet of the future, as flesh-food is the diet of the past.
-- Henry Stephens SaltSource : "The Humanities of Diet". Book by Henry Stephens Salt, 1897.
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I became a vegetarian at 15. I was always an animal lover and, as a teenager, became increasingly uncomfortable with the idea of eating meat. It was then that I started to research vegetarianism.
-- Laura Mennell