Vegan Quotes

• We all love animals. Why do we call some 'pets' and others 'dinner?'

  K. D. Lang

  Animal, Vegetarianism, Pet

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  The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man.

  Charles Darwin

  Love, Life, Nature

  Charles Darwin (2015). “Darwin on Evolution: Words of Wisdom from the Father of Evolution”, p.25, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• People are fed by the food industry, which pays no attention to health, and are treated by the health industry, which pays no attention to food.

  Wendell Berry

  Inspiring, People, Attention

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• Never, never be afraid to do what's right, especially if the well-being of a person or animal is at stake. Society's punishments are small compared to the wounds we inflict on our soul when we look the other way.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Courage, Integrity

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• Vegetarian food leaves a deep impression on our nature. If the whole world adopts vegetarianism, it can change the destiny of humankind.

  Albert Einstein

  Destiny, Vegetarianism, World

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• To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Karma, Animal, Rights

  Mahatma Gandhi, General Press (2014). “My Experiments with Truth: An Autobiography of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.361, GENERAL PRESS

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• the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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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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• Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Animal, Rights, Vegetarian Diet

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• I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Meaningful, Nature, Compassion

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  Any religion or philosophy which is not based on a respect for life is not a true religion or philosophy.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Life, Death, Respect

  Albert Schweitzer (1984). “The Words of Albert Schweitzer”

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  If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.

  Paul McCartney

  Wall, Food, Health

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

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• We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.

  Immanuel Kant

  Dog, Heart, Animal

  "True animal instinct", www.theguardian.com. September 2, 2005.

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• We consume the carcasses of creatures of like appetites, passions and organs with our own, and fill the slaughterhouses daily with screams of pain and fear.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Pain, Passion, Animal

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• My refusing to eat meat occasioned inconveniency, and I have been frequently chided for my singularity. But my light repast allows for greater progress, for greater clearness of head and quicker comprehension.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Light, Progress, Meat

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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 greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. I hold that the more helpless a creature the more entitled it is to protection by man from the cruelty of humankind.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Dog, Nature, Greatness

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• We can see quite plainly that our present civilization is built on the exploitation of animals, just as past civilisations were built on the exploitation of slaves.

  Donald Watson

  Animal, Past, Civilization

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• If a man aspires towards a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from injury to animals.

  Albert Einstein

  Zoos, Cat, Animal

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• Veganism gives us all the opportunity to say what we "stand for" in life- the ideal of healthy, humane living. Add decades to your life, with a clear conscience as a bonus.

  Donald Watson

  Life, Health, Animal

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• There is nothing more 'elitist' than thinking our palate
  pleasure can ever justify a second of suffering or
  a single death. Please go vegan.

  Gary L. Francione

  Thinking, Suffering, Pleasure

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• If you step back and look at the data, the optimum amount of red meat you eat should be zero.

  Walter Willett

  Zero, Vegetarianism, Data

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• I'd like to see animals removed from the entertainment business. Chimpanzees and apes won't perform unless you beat them. Circuses keep elephants in chains 90 percent of the time. Elephants need freedom of movement. In circuses, they live in cramped quarters, which is not the life intended for them by nature. Some are beaten daily, forced to do ridiculous tricks and robbed of every shred of dignity.

  Bob Barker

  Animal, Elephants, Circus

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• It is only by softening and disguising dead flesh by culinary preparation that it is rendered susceptible of mastication or digestion, and that the sight of its bloody juices and raw horror does not excite intolerable loathing and disgust.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Sight, Vegetarian Diet, Vegetarianism

  Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1839). “The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.86

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• 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 Phoenix

  Kids, Vegetarianism, Bully

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

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