Vegetarian Quotes - Page 12

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  As long as man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other.

  Pythagoras

  Health, Animal, Men

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• 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

  Dog, Philosophical, Cat

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• 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

  Jesus, Wine, Animal

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• We are the living graves of murdered beasts, slaughtered to satisfy our appetites. How can we hope in this world to attain the peace we say we are so anxious for?

  George Bernard Shaw

  Vegetarian Diet, Vegetarianism, World

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• There will be no justice as long as man will stand with a knife or with a gun and destroy those who are weaker than he is.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Gun, Men, Animal

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• People eat meat and think they will become as strong as an ox, forgetting that the ox eats grass.

  Pino Caruso

  Strong, Thinking, Vegetarianism

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• The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creatures that cannot.

  Mark Twain

  Recovery, Animal, Intelligent

  Mark Twain (2009). “Mark Twain’s Book of Animals”, p.264, Univ of California Press

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• We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form.

  William Ralph Inge

  Cousin, Animal, Rights

  Outspoken Essays: Second Series "The Idea of Progress" (1922)

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• I am oppressed with a dread of living forever. That is the only disadvantage of vegetarianism.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Vegetarianism, Forever, Vegan Food

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• A vegetarian is a person who won't eat anything that can have children.

  David Brenner

  Funny, Witty, Children

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• Vegetarians have wicked, shifty eyes, and laugh in a cold calculating manner. They pinch little children, steal stamps, drink water, favor beards.

  J. B. Morton

  Children, Food, Eye

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• In a burning building I would save a cat before a Rembrandt.

  Alberto Giacometti

  Cat, Burning, Building

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• Your choice of diet can influence your long term health prospects more than any other action you might take.

  C. Everett Koop

  Vegetarianism, Long, Choices

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• Elsewhere the paper notes that vegetarians and vegans (including athletes) 'meet and exceed requirements' for protein. And, to render the whole we-should-worry-about-getting-enough-protein-and-therefore-eat-meat idea even more useless, other data suggests that excess animal protein intake is linked with osteoporosis, kidney disease, calcium stones in the urinary tract, and some cancers. Despite some persistent confusion, it is clear that vegetarians and vegans tend to have more optimal protein consumption than omnivores.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Cancer, Food, Athlete

  "Eating Animals". Book by Jonathan Safran Foer, March 4, 2010..

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• Most vegetarians I ever see looked enough like their food to be classed as cannibals.

  Finley Peter Dunne

  Food, Enough, Cannibal

  Mr. Dooley's Philosophy "Casual Observations" (1900)

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• Appeasers believe that if you keep on throwing steaks to a tiger, the tiger will become a vegetarian.

  Heywood Broun

  Believe, Appeasement, Steak

  "The Wisdom of China and India". Book by Lin Yutang, 1942.

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• Many things made me become a vegetarian, among them the higher food yield as a solution to world hunger.

  John Denver

  Yield, Vegetarianism, World

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• I was so moved by the intelligence,sense of fun and personalities of the animals I worked with on Babe that by the end of the film I was a vegetarian.

  James Cromwell

  Fun, Animal, Personality

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• The thought of two thousand people crunching celery at the same time horrified me.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Food, Vegetarianism, Two

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• Humans are the only hunters who kill when not hungry.

  Steven Spielberg

  Hunters, Vegan, Hungry

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• In every respect, vegans appear to enjoy equal or better health in comparison to both vegetarians and non-vegetarians.

  T. Colin Campbell

  Vegetarianism, Vegan, Vegetarian Health

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• I didn't fight my way to the top of the food chain to be a vegetarian.

  Erma Bombeck

  Fighting, Way, Bumper Sticker

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• I have been a vegetarian for about 10 years. And it really was due to the reading that I did. And they explain so that you understand why it's important for the planet's survival along with compassion for animals. It certainly made it much easier for me. I lost weight really fast. My mother died from cancer so this is all very personal to me. And I just would like the planet to be a better place. And I think you'll find a vegetarian diet to be really incredible these days

  Linda Blair

  Mother, Cancer, Reading

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• When we eat factory-farmed meat we live, literally, on tortured flesh. Increasingly, that tortured flesh is becoming our own.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Vegetarianism, Meat, Flesh

  "Eating Animals". Book by Jonathan Safran Foer, March 4, 2010.

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• After 10 years of eating vegetarian, I tried my boyfriend's. I was overwhelmed. It was orgasmic.

  Jessica Szohr

  Years, My Boyfriend, Overwhelmed

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