Vegetarianism Quotes - Page 12

• 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

  Religious, Food, Cooking

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• Discussing vaccination with a doctor is like discussing vegetarianism with a butcher.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Doctors, Butchers, Discussing

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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 Salt

  Past, Progress, Flesh

  "The Humanities of Diet". Book by Henry Stephens Salt, 1897.

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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 Leadbeater

  Believe, Men, Average

  Charles Webster Leadbeater (1909). “Some Glimpses of Occultism: Ancient and Modern”

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• There is not a single argument nor a single fact that can be offered in favour of flesh eating that cannot be offered, with equal strength, in favour of cannibalism.

  Herbert M. Shelton

  Flesh Eating, Cannibalism, Facts

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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

  Animal, Choices, Community

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• The most energetic workers I have encountered in my world travels are the vegetarian miners of Chile.

  Charles Darwin

  World, Vegan, Vegetarian Health

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• I have made my own choice, which is vegetarianism, but it's not the choice I'm imposing on anybody else.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Choices, Made, My Own

  Interview with Gregg LaGambina, www.avclub.com. November 17, 2009.

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• I, however, cannot force myself to use "meat drugs" to cheat on my loneliness.

  Franz Kafka

  Loneliness, Alcohol, Drug

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• 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

  Perfection, Humanity, Moral

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• When we eat vegetarian foods, we needn't worry about what kind of disease our food died from; this makes a joyful meal!

  John Harvey Kellogg

  Worry, Disease, Meals

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• Vegetarianism is a healthier diet.

  Deepak Chopra

  Diets

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• Now there is apparently a causal link between heroin addiction and vegetarianism.

  Irvine Welsh

  Addiction, Links, Heroin

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• The vegetarian movement ought to fill with gladness the souls of those who have at heart the realization of God's kingdom upon earth, not because vegetarianism itself is such an important step towards the realization of this kingdom (all real steps are equally important or unimportant), but because it serves as a criterion by which we know that the pursuit of moral perfection on the part of man is genuine and sincere.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Real, Heart, Men

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• Vegetarianism -- You are what you eat, and who wants to be a lettuce?

  Pete Burns

  Want, Lettuce

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• One who kill, own life will be shortened; One who harms, will be injured even more

  Akkineni Nagarjuna

  Harm, Injured

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• If a person does not harm any living being...and does not kill or cause others to kill - that person is a true spiritual practitioner

  Gautama Buddha

  Spiritual, Doe, Causes

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• 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

  Regret, School, Lunch

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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

  Desire, Finding Happiness, Violence

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• Even if we cannot be completely non-voilent, by being vegetarian we are going in the direction of non-voilence

  Nhat Hanh

  Vegetarian, Ifs

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• 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 Baldwin

  Animal, Choices, Environment

  "Meet Your Meat". Documentary Film, May 01, 2002.

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• 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

  Cake, Healthy, Meat

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• 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

  Animal, Years, Common Threads

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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

  Ignorance, Race, Issues

  "Vegetarian Times", 1988.

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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 Nearing

  Strong, Animal, Healthy

  "The Making of a Radical: A Political Autobiography". Book by Scott Nearing, 1973.

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