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"I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will look on the murder of animals as they now look on the murder of men.”
- Leonardo da Vinci
“Flesh eating is unprovoked murder.”
- Ben Franklin
“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
"I am in favour of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being." - Abraham Lincoln
“Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.”
- Albert Einstein
“The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.”
- Mahatma Gandhi
“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 Edison
“There is no fundamental difference between man and the higher animals in their mental faculties… The lower animals, like man, manifestly feel pleasure and pain, happiness, and misery.”
- Charles Darwin
“You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
“I think if you want to eat more meat you should kill it yourself and eat it raw so that you are not blinded by the hypocrisy of having it processed for you.”
- Margi Clark
“If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.”
- Paul McCartney
During my medical education at the University of Basel I found vivisection horrible, barbarous, and above all unnecessary." - Carl G. Jung
“As long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seeds of murder and pain cannot reap the joy of love.”
- Pythagoras
"When about 16 Years of Age, I happen'd to meet with a Book written by one Tryon, recommending a Vegetable Diet. I determined to go into it.... My refusing to eat Flesh occasioned an inconveniency, and I was frequently chid for my singularity...."
- Ben Franklin
“We consume the carcasses of creatures of like appetites, passions and organs as our own, and fill the slaughterhouses daily with screams of pain and fear.”
- Robert Louis Stevenson
The more red meat and blood we eat, the more bloodthirsty we get, the more violent we get. The more vegetarian food that we eat, the more peace is taken into us." - Ziggy Marley.
"I am not interested to know whether vivisection produces results that are profitable to the human race or doesn't...The pain which it inflicts upon unconsenting animals is the basis of my enmity toward it, and it is to me sufficient justification of the enmity without looking further."
- Mark Twain
"Animals are my friends … and I don't eat my friends." - George Bernard Shaw
"How can you eat anything with eyes ?" - Will Kellogg
"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." - Henry David Thoreau
"Now I can look at you in peace; I don't eat you anymore." - Franz Kafka
"The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man." - Charles Darwin
"You don't hate vegans. You hate that vegans make you look at your participation in the exploitation of animals." - Gary Smith
"When I see bacon, I see a pig, I see a little friend, and that's why I can't eat it. Simple as that" - Paul McCartney
"The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing."
- Albert Einstein
"It is significant to note that those who live on vegetarian food are less prone to diseases, whereas non-vegetarians are subject to more diseases. Why? Because animal food is incompatible with the needs of the human body." - Sri Sathya Sai Baba
“A human being is a part of the whole, called by us the ‘Universe’, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separate from the rest – a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. Nobody is able to achieve this completely, but the striving for such achievement is in itself a part of the liberation and a foundation for inner security.” - Albert Einstein
“All beings tremble before violence. All fear death, all love life. See yourself in others. Then whom can you hurt? What harm can you do?” - Buddha
“If we don’t NEED to eat animals to survive, is taste a good enough reason to murder them without pity?” - Edward Sanchez
"When non-vegetarians say that “human problems come first,” I cannot help wondering what exactly it is that they are doing for human beings that compels them to continue to support the wasteful, ruthless exploitation of farm animals." -Peter Singer
"Since visiting the abatoirs of S. France I have stopped eating meat." - Vincent Van Gogh
"Cruelty to animals can become violence to humans." - Ali MacGraw
"Humans are the only hunters who kill when not hungry." - Steven Spielberg
"As custodians of the planet, it is our responsibility to deal with all species with kindness. People get offended by animal rights campaigns. It's ludicrous. It's not as bad as mass animal death in a factory." - Richard Gere
"Vegetarian food leaves a deep impression on our nature. If the whole world adopts vegetarianism, it can change the destiny of humankind." - Albert Einstein
"Life is as dear to a mute creature as it is to man." - The Dalai Lama
"Basically we should stop doing those things that are destructive to the environment, other creatures and ourselves, and figure out new ways of existing" - Moby
"Let food be thy medicine and let medicine be thy food" - Hippocrates
Quotes by famous vegetarians and vegans
"I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will look on the murder of animals as they now look on the murder of men.”
- Leonardo da Vinci
“Flesh eating is unprovoked murder.”
- Ben Franklin
“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
"I am in favour of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being." - Abraham Lincoln
“Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.”
- Albert Einstein
“The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.”
- Mahatma Gandhi
“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 Edison
“There is no fundamental difference between man and the higher animals in their mental faculties… The lower animals, like man, manifestly feel pleasure and pain, happiness, and misery.”
- Charles Darwin
“You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
“I think if you want to eat more meat you should kill it yourself and eat it raw so that you are not blinded by the hypocrisy of having it processed for you.”
- Margi Clark
“If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.”
- Paul McCartney
During my medical education at the University of Basel I found vivisection horrible, barbarous, and above all unnecessary." - Carl G. Jung
“As long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seeds of murder and pain cannot reap the joy of love.”
- Pythagoras
"When about 16 Years of Age, I happen'd to meet with a Book written by one Tryon, recommending a Vegetable Diet. I determined to go into it.... My refusing to eat Flesh occasioned an inconveniency, and I was frequently chid for my singularity...."
- Ben Franklin
“We consume the carcasses of creatures of like appetites, passions and organs as our own, and fill the slaughterhouses daily with screams of pain and fear.”
- Robert Louis Stevenson
The more red meat and blood we eat, the more bloodthirsty we get, the more violent we get. The more vegetarian food that we eat, the more peace is taken into us." - Ziggy Marley.
"I am not interested to know whether vivisection produces results that are profitable to the human race or doesn't...The pain which it inflicts upon unconsenting animals is the basis of my enmity toward it, and it is to me sufficient justification of the enmity without looking further."
- Mark Twain
"Animals are my friends … and I don't eat my friends." - George Bernard Shaw
"How can you eat anything with eyes ?" - Will Kellogg
"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." - Henry David Thoreau
"Now I can look at you in peace; I don't eat you anymore." - Franz Kafka
"The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man." - Charles Darwin
"You don't hate vegans. You hate that vegans make you look at your participation in the exploitation of animals." - Gary Smith
"When I see bacon, I see a pig, I see a little friend, and that's why I can't eat it. Simple as that" - Paul McCartney
"The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing."
- Albert Einstein
"It is significant to note that those who live on vegetarian food are less prone to diseases, whereas non-vegetarians are subject to more diseases. Why? Because animal food is incompatible with the needs of the human body." - Sri Sathya Sai Baba
“A human being is a part of the whole, called by us the ‘Universe’, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separate from the rest – a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. Nobody is able to achieve this completely, but the striving for such achievement is in itself a part of the liberation and a foundation for inner security.” - Albert Einstein
“All beings tremble before violence. All fear death, all love life. See yourself in others. Then whom can you hurt? What harm can you do?” - Buddha
“If we don’t NEED to eat animals to survive, is taste a good enough reason to murder them without pity?” - Edward Sanchez
"When non-vegetarians say that “human problems come first,” I cannot help wondering what exactly it is that they are doing for human beings that compels them to continue to support the wasteful, ruthless exploitation of farm animals." -Peter Singer
"Since visiting the abatoirs of S. France I have stopped eating meat." - Vincent Van Gogh
"Cruelty to animals can become violence to humans." - Ali MacGraw
"Humans are the only hunters who kill when not hungry." - Steven Spielberg
"As custodians of the planet, it is our responsibility to deal with all species with kindness. People get offended by animal rights campaigns. It's ludicrous. It's not as bad as mass animal death in a factory." - Richard Gere
"Vegetarian food leaves a deep impression on our nature. If the whole world adopts vegetarianism, it can change the destiny of humankind." - Albert Einstein
"Life is as dear to a mute creature as it is to man." - The Dalai Lama
"Basically we should stop doing those things that are destructive to the environment, other creatures and ourselves, and figure out new ways of existing" - Moby
"Let food be thy medicine and let medicine be thy food" - Hippocrates
