Vegetarian Food Quotes

• Eating together happily can best be crowned by the vegetarian foods.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Eating Together, Vegetarian, Together

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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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• Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.

  Albert Einstein

  Funny Inspirational, Food, Health

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.15, St. Martin's Press

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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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• A human can be healthy without killing animals for food.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Food, Animal, Meat Consumption

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• Food is an important part of a balanced diet.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Funny, Life, Witty

  FaceBook post by Fran Lebowitz from Apr 13, 2010

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• I do feel that spiritual progress does demand at some stage that we should cease to kill our fellow creatures for the satisfaction of our bodily wants.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Spiritual, Philosophical, Animal

  Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.151, Rajpal & Sons

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• 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.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Animal, Needs, Body

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• Caesar's armies marched on vegetarian foods.

  Will Durant

  Army, Vegetables, Vegetarian

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• Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Friendship, Food, Animal

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• I have been vegetarian for twelve years. And I have never been seriously ill. Vegetarian food strengthens the immune system. I think that meat makes you sick.

  Bryan Adams

  Thinking, Animal, Years

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• Now I can look at you in peace; I don't eat you any more.

  Franz Kafka

  Animal, Compassion, Vegetarianism

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• If you meditate long enough, deep enough, it is impossible for you to hurt anybody for food; it is impossible. It is not a question of argument, it is not a question of scriptures, it is not who says what, it is not a question of calculating that if you take vegetarian food you will become spiritual; it is automatic. It is not a question of cunningness, you simply become spiritual. The whole thing seems so absurd. Just for food, killing animals, birds, seems so absurd, it falls down.

  Rajneesh

  Spiritual, Hurt, Fall

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• I won't eat anything that has intelligent life, but I'd gladly eat a network executive or a politician.

  Marty Feldman

  Funny, Life, Food

  "He Who Laughs Lasts". Book by Shawn Lovley (p. 51), March 2001.

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• If vegetarians eat vegetables, what do humanitarians eat

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Humor, Vegetables

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• A man of my spiritual intensity does not eat corpses.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Spiritual, Food, Men

  "George Bernard Shaw: His Life and Personality". Book by Hesketh Pearson, 1942.

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

  Finley Peter Dunne

  Food, Vegetarian, Enough

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

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• The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Wisdom, Peace, Kindness

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• I was a vegetarian until I started leaning toward the sunlight.

  Rita Rudner

  Inspirational, Funny, Humor

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• I hold flesh-food to be unsuited to our species. We err in copying the lower animal world if we are superior to it.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Animal, Vegetarianism, Copying

  Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.151, Rajpal & Sons

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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 often say that humans have always eaten animals, as if this is a justification for continuing the practice. According to this logic, we should not try to prevent people from murdering other people, since this has also been done since the earliest of times.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Animal, Vegetarianism, Practice

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• A dead cow or sheep lying in a pasture is recognized as carrion. The same sort of a carcass dressed and hung up in a butcher's stall passes as food.

  John Harvey Kellogg

  Lying, Sheep, Vegetarianism

  "Romance of the Cow" by Dahyabhai H. Jani, The Bombay Humanitarian League, p. 81, 1938.

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• The first man . . . ventured to call food and nourishment the parts that had a little before bellowed and cried, moved and lived. How could his eyes endure the slaughter when throats were slit and hides flayed and limbs torn from limb? How could his nose endure the stench? How was it that the pollution did not turn away his taste, which made contact with the sores of others and sucked juices and serums from mortal wounds?

  Plutarch

  Eye, Men, Animal

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• If he be really and seriously seeking to live a good life, the first thing from which he will abstain will always be the use of animal food, because ...its use is simply immoral, as it involves the performance of an act which is contrary to the moral feeling - killing.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Life, Death, Animal

  Leo Tolstoy, J. M. Packham (2015). “Leo Tolstoy: Letters and Papers”, p.42, Lulu Press, Inc

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