Vegetarian Quotes - Page 10

• A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Food, Health, Animal

  Leo Tolstoy (graf) (1911). “The novels and other works of Lyof N. Tolstoï”

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• Could you look an animal in the eyes and say to it, 'My appetite is more important than your suffering'?

  Moby

  Eye, Animal, Suffering

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• Think of the fierce energy concentrated in an acorn! You bury it in the ground, and it explodes into an oak! Bury a sheep, and nothing happens but decay.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Food, Thinking, Sheep

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• The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion.

  Socrates

  Compassion, Understanding, Firsts

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• I was raised really, really healthy, pretty much vegetarian and a very clean lifestyle, I don't smoke, I don't drink. I'm more addicted to the things that make me feel good - endorphins after working out.

  Elizabeth Berkley

  Work Out, Feel Good, Healthy

  "Elizabeth Berkley joins TV's ballroom blitz". Interview with Choire Sicha, www.latimes.com. April 6, 2008.

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• My body will not be a tomb for other creatures.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Vegetarian Diet, Vegetarianism, Body

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  Vegetarians are cool. All I eat are vegetarians - except for the occasional mountain lion steak.

  Ted Nugent

  Inspiration, Hiking, Mountain

  Ted Nugent, Shemane Nugent (2005). “Kill It & Grill It: A Guide To Preparing And Cooking Wild Game And Fish”, p.1, Regnery Publishing

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• If modern civilization man had to kill the animals he eats, the number of vegetarians would rise astronomically.

  Christian Morgenstern

  Animal, Carpe Diem, Men

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• We stopped eating meat many years ago. During the course of a Sunday lunch we happened to look out of the kitchen window at our young lambs playing happily in the fields. Glancing down at our plates, we suddenly realized that we were eating the leg of an animal who had until recently been playing in a field herself. We looked at each other and said, "Wait a minute, we love these sheep-they're such gentle creatures. So why are we eating them?" It was the last time we ever did.

  Linda McCartney

  Sunday, Animal, Sheep

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• The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.

  Alice Walker

  Meaningful, Nature, Men

  "The Dreaded Comparison: Animal Slavery and Human Slavery". Book by Marjorie Spiegel, Foreword, 1996.

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• Right now, I'm pro-leave beef alone. Big shout-out to all the vegetarians who don't want beef!

  Ja Rule

  Beef, Want, Bigs

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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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• I think 'vegan' is a beautiful word. It is more than just a description for our diet. I see it as a visible template for an ethical, healthy, responsible, and rational life. Because it describes our character, it says we do not take the life of another living being to satisfy our wants.

  Philip Wollen

  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

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• Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting the bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian.

  Dennis Wholey

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• Wilbur burst into tears. "I dont want to die," he moaned. "I want to stay alive, right here in my comfortable manure pile with all my friends. I want to breathe the beautiful air and lie in the beautiful sun."

  E. B. White

  Beautiful, Lying, Air

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• I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Food, Vegetarianism, Cooking

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• Atrocities are not less atrocities when they occur in laboratories and are called medical research.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Animal, Vegetarianism, Abuse

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• Until one has loved an animal a part of one's soul remains unawakened.

  Anatole France

  Love, Inspiring, Dog

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

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• It were much better that a sentient being should never have existed, than that it should have existed only to endure unmitigated misery.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Compassion, Vegetarianism, Should Have

  Percy Bysshe Shelley, Sir John Courtown Edward Shelley-Rolls (bart.), Roger Ingpen (1934). “Verse and prose from the manuscripts of Percy Bysshe Shelley”

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• I became a vegetarian in 1958 and it was very difficult in those days to really maintain that because there weren't many options... alternatives. But, now, it's a growing trend because... the economics are there. See, there's simply enough people demanding it that it's profitable to supply vegetarians with those products.

  Dennis Weaver

  People, Alternatives, Growing

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• If a group of beings from another planet were to land on Earth - beings who considered themselves as superior to you as you feel yourself to be to other animals - would you concede them the rights over you that you assume over other animals?

  George Bernard Shaw

  Animal, Land, Rights

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

  K. D. Lang

  Animal, Vegetarianism, Pet

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• I just love animals, and I'm an advocate for animals rights, and my family has rescued dogs from all over the world. I don't believe in animal testing. If you see me in fur, it's always fake. Sometimes you see me wearing skulls, but those are all from roadkill

  Kesha

  Dog, Believe, Animal

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• Taking all vegetable-eating nations together . . . they are a larger and much better formed race than the flesh eaters.

  Sylvester Graham

  Food, Race, Vegetables

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• I've been a vegetarian for years and years. I'm not judgemental about others who aren't, I just feel I cannot eat or wear living creatures.

  Drew Barrymore

  Vegetarianism, Years, Judging

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