Vegetarian Quotes

• Learning about factory farms and their horrendous treatment of animals is what made me become vegetarian in the first place. I also support the education of the public on adopting pets from animal shelters or saving homeless animals off the street in lieu of buying them from pet shops.

  Laura Mennell

  Animal, Support, Pet

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

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• Cruelty to animals can become violence to humans.

  Ali MacGraw

  Animal, Violence, Cruelty

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• I am a vegetarian because I realized that even little chickens suffer pain and fear, experience a range of feelings and emotions, and are as intelligent as mammals, including dogs, cats, and even some primates.

  Paul McCartney

  Dog, Pain, Cat

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• The steam of meat darkens the light of the spirit...One hardly can have virtue when one enjoys meat meals and feasts.

  Saint Basil

  Light, Vegetarianism, Meat

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• I'm always thirsty when I wake up, so I guzzle a bottle of Smart water before I scramble tofu with onions, peppers and spinach and top it with salsa. I've been a vegetarian for years, but I recently became vegan.

  Carrie Underwood

  Smart, Years, Water

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• Cruelty to animals is as if humans did not love God.

  John Henry Newman

  Religious, Animal, God Love

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• The symbolism of meat-eating is never neutral. To himself, the meat-eater seems to be eating life. To the vegetarian, he seems to be eating death. There is a kind of gestalt-shift between the two positions which makes it hard to change, and hard to raise questions on the matter at all without becoming embattled.

  Mary Midgley

  Life, Death, Philosophy

  Mary Midgley (1998). “Animals and why They Matter”, p.27, University of Georgia Press

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• Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Life, Peace, Honesty

  "Innovate Like Edison : The Five-Step System for Breakthrough Business Success". Book by Michael J. Gelb and Sarah Miller Caldicott, p. 67,

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• May all that have life be delivered from suffering.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Animal, Suffering

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• The vegan lifestyle is a compassionate way to live that supports life, supports fairness and equality, and promotes freedom.

  Robert Cheeke

  Fairness And Equality, Support, Way To Live

  Robert Cheeke (2011). “Vegan Bodybuilding and Fitness”, p.33, Book Publishing Company

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• I stopped eating beef at 13 and stopped eating all meat a few years ago. I would feel guilty that what was on my plate was walking around yesterday. Either I could live with that or stop eating meat. I choose the latter, and I'm happier for it.

  Carrie Underwood

  Years, Yesterday, Meat

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• Thanksgiving dinner's sad and thankless. Christmas dinner's dark and blue. When you stop and try to see it From the turkey's point of view.

  Shel Silverstein

  Dark, Blue, Views

  Shel Silverstein, “Point Of View”

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• A human being has been given an intellect to make choices, and we know there are other food sources that do not require the killing of a creature that would protest being killed.

  Mary Tyler Moore

  Choices, Animal Rights, Killing

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• It's the 21st century. It's healthier for us, better for the environment and certainly kinder to be a vegetarian.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Environment, Century, Kinder

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• Behind every beautiful fur, there is a story. It is a bloody, barbaric story.

  Mary Tyler Moore

  Beautiful, Animal, Humanity

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• Poor animals! How jealously they guard their pathetic bodies...that which to us is merely an evening's meal, but to them is life itself.

  T. Casey Brennan

  Compassion, Animal, Pet

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• I call myself a vegetarian with vegan tendencies.

  Leona Lewis

  Vegan, Tendencies

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

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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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• Becoming vegan is the most important and direct change we can immediately make to save the planet and its species.

  Chris Hedges

  Important, Becoming, Vegan

  "Saving the Planet, One Meal at a Time". www.truthdig.com. November 10, 2014.

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• When I was 12, I first made the decision to go vegetarian after a co-star's line 'I don't eat anything with a face' suddenly shocked me into reality.

  Renee Olstead

  Stars, Reality, Decision

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• Recognize meat for what it really is: the antibiotic- and pesticide-laden corpse of a tortured animal.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Food, Animal, Vegetarianism

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• I haven't bought any leather articles for a very long time. My ideal is to be able to avoid all animal products, in food as well as clothing.

  Martina Navratilova

  Animal, Long, Able

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• I am a vegetarian as well as a passionate anti-alcoholic, because I can thus make better use of my brain.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Animal, Brain, Passionate

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• Eating a vegetarian diet can contribute more to saving ourselves and the planet than any other single effort.

  Sharon Gannon

  Vegetarian Diet, Effort, Saving

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• I think if you want to eat more meat you should kill it yourself and eat it raw so that you are not blinded by the hypocrisy of having it processed for you.

  Margi Clarke

  Karma, Food, Thinking

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