Vegetarian Quotes - Page 20

• I was born in California, raised a vegetarian, and love science fiction, so don't tell me how I need to be in order to fit your standards. When I was younger, those kinds of comments bothered me, but eventually got to a point where I realized I wasn't going to change who I was.

  Aisha Tyler

  Order, California, And Love

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I have said many times in the past I don't choose to be vice president, either Republican, Democrat, Libertarian or vegetarian.

  John McCain

  Past, President, Vices

  "Countdown with Keith Olbermann", www.nbcnews.com. July 8, 2004.

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• An innocent bird is not innocent from the insect's point of view! Only man can attain the rank of innocence through becoming a peaceful vegetarian!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Men, Views, Bird

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• The word vegetarian, I think, does a disservice because there are a lot of people who care but maybe don't care, or can't care in an ultimate way. If you think about environmentalism, nobody would ask, "Are you an environmentalist or not?" The question doesn't make any sense.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Thinking, People, Way

  "Extremely Dead and Incredibly Gross". Interview with Kiera Butler, www.motherjones.com. November 25, 2009.

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• Ninety-eight percent of all the soy that's raised goes to livestock. So people make fun of vegetarians for being tofu eaters, but no one eats tofu like steak eaters, by a long shot. It's also funny that tofu is held up as what a vegetarian eats. I mean maybe I eat tofu once a month, but other than that, never. All of it, statistically speaking, is going to livestock.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Fun, Mean, Ninety Eight

  "Extremely Dead and Incredibly Gross". Interview with Kiera Butler, www.motherjones.com. November 25, 2009.

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• Raising your kids vegetarian is a great way to encourage them to do the opposite of what you want! But the goal is not to have them have the same values that I have. It's to have them act on their values.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Kids, Opposites, Goal

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• For those who are still merely vegetarian and not yet vegan, I ask, what in heaven's name are you waiting for?

  Howard Lyman

  Names, Waiting, Heaven

  "No More Bull!: The Mad Cowboy Targets America's Worst Enemy: Our Diet". Book by Howard Lyman, Glen Merzer, Joanna Samorow-Merzer, 2005.

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• I have a trainer who comes three times a week and just listens to me moan... and I keep fit and keep moving... and I do watch what I eat. I am a vegetarian... I can't eat crazy food. I'm highly allergic to onions and garlic and spices... I've never had a pizza, never had a curry.

  Ringo Starr

  Crazy, Moving, Spices

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• The real cure for our environmental problems is to understand that our job is to salvage Mother Nature. We are facing a formidable enemy in this field. It is the hunters... and to convince them to leave their guns on the wall is going to be very difficult.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Mother, Jobs, Wall

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• I'm not a vegetarian but I want you to know that my four dogs are safe.

  Charlton Heston

  Dog, Four, Safe

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• I think and speak clearer since I cut the dairy out. I can breathe better and perform at a better rate, and my voice is clearer. I can explore different things with my voice that I couldn't do because of my meat and dairy ingestion. I am proud and blessed to be a vegetarian, everything became clear.

  Common

  Blessed, Cutting, Thinking

  "Humanimal". Book by Vergil Z. Ozeca, 2010.

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• Genesis 9 is where the animals went wild, and God gave them wildness. After the flood, that's when he made animals wild. Up until that time, everybody was vegetarian.

  Phil Robertson

  Animal, Made, Genesis

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• It is a deplorable fact that many Christians are so accustomed to a certain creed and dogma of their own that they will adhere to it even at the sacrifice of the great moral laws of love and mercy.

  Ed Buckner

  Christian, Sacrifice, Law

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• The animal world being altogether external to the scheme of redemption, was regarded as beyond the range of duty, and the belief that we have any kind of obligation to its members has never been inculcated - has never, I believe, been even admitted - by Catholic theologians.

  William Edward Hartpole Lecky

  Believe, Animal, Catholic

  William Edward Hartpole Lecky (1955). “History of European morals from Augustus to Charlemagne”

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• ... the primitve Christians, by laying so much stress upon a future life in contradiction to this life, and placing the lower creatures out of the pale of sympathy, and thus had the foundation for this utter disregard of animals in the light of our fellow creatures.

  Anna Brownell Jameson

  Christian, Stress, Animal

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• I eat vegetarian a lot. I buy only fresh ingredients and cook from scratch - that way, when I feel like snacking and look in my fridge, it's: 'Oh, baby carrots or chocolate soy pudding. Take your pick.

  Nadia Giosia

  Baby, Chocolate, Scratches

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• My wife and I have chosen to bring up our children as vegetarians. In another time or place, we might have made a different decision. But the realities of our present moment compelled us to
  make that choice.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Children, Reality, Wife

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• Ralph Nader choose the man with whom to share the responsibility of running a distant third, California activist Peter Camejo. You may remember that Camejo ran for president in 1976 on the Socialist Workers Party ticket. Actually, you might only remember that if you run a lesbian, vegetarian, bookstore.

  Jon Stewart

  Running, Party, Responsibility

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• I think vegetarians - for a lot of them - it's about a lack of commitment to life and relationships. There are some who just like the fact that they're controlling something in their life.

  Kirsten Dunst

  Food, Commitment, Thinking

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

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• One who, while seeking happiness, oppresses with violence other living beings who also desire happinesss, will not find happiness hereafter.

  Gautama Buddha

  Vegetarianism, Desire, Finding Happiness

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• Vegetarianism is a way of life that we should all move toward for economic survival, physical well-being and spiritual integrity.

  Thomas Berry

  Spiritual, Integrity, Moving

  "Food for the Spirit: Vegetarianism and the World Religions". Book by Steven Rosen ("Critics praise" section), 1987.

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• I'm a vegetarian who doesn't like eggplant parmesan. Isn't that awful? I'm also sick of portobello mushrooms. People are like,"A vegetarian's coming to dinner," so they serve those.

  Candy Crowley

  Eggplant, Mushrooms, People

  Interview with Rachael Ray, www.rachaelraymag.com. November 1, 2005.

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• If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics - a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage - surely that proves that you are in the right?

  George Orwell

  Ordinary, Literature, Advantage

  George Orwell, Keith Gessen (2009). “All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays”, p.335, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Jainism is the first religion that has made vegetarianism a fundamental necessity for transforming consciousness. And they are right. Killing just to eat makes your consciousness heavy, insensitive; and you need a very sensitive consciousness - very light, very loving, very compassionate. It is difficult for a non-vegetarian to be compassionate; and without being compassionate and loving you will be hindering your own progress.

  Rajneesh

  Light, Vegetarianism, Loving You

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• No vegetarian has been able to achieve a single Nobel prize. It is a clear-cut condemnation of vegetarianism. Why do all the Nobel prizes go to non-vegetarians? - because vegetarian food does not contain those proteins which create intelligence. And unless we provide those proteins, intelligence cannot grow. The body is a very delicate phenomenon and it needs a very well balanced diet.

  Rajneesh

  Cutting, Vegetarianism, Needs

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