Vegetarian Quotes - Page 16

• My situation is a solemn one: life is offered to me on the condition of eating beefsteaks. But death is better than cannibalism. My will contains directions for my funeral, which will be followed, not by mourning coaches, but by oxen, sheep, flocks of poultry, and a small traveling aquarium of live fish, all wearing white scarves in honor of the man who perished rather than eat his fellow creatures. It will be, without the exception of Noah's Ark, the most remarkable thing of its kind ever seen.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Men, Aquariums, White

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• I think there will come a time when civilized people will look back in horror on our generation and the ones that have preceded it; the idea that we should eat other living things running around on four legs, that we should raise them just for the purpose of killing them! The people of the future will say 'meat-eaters' in disgust and regard us in the same way that we regard cannibals and cannibalism.

  Dennis Weaver

  Running, Animal, Thinking

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• In all the round world there is no meat. There used to be. But now we cannot stand the thought of slaughterhouses.

  H. G. Wells

  Animal, Vegetarianism, World

  H. G. Wells (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of H. G. Wells (Illustrated)”, p.1995, Delphi Classics

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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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• A vegetarian? Are you insane? That's worse than bein' a quarter demon!

  Kami Garcia

  Insane, Demon, Quarters

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• Well, we became a vegetarian. But that didn't last very long, because, um, I don't like vegetables. Or salad, nothing like that!

  Dakota Fanning

  Vegetables, Long, Salad

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• They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.

  Joni Mitchell

  Nature, Environmental, Progress

  "Big Yellow Taxi" (song) (1969)

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• Bowling is not a sport because you have to rent the shoes. When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops? This title offends all three major religions, and even vegetarians!

  George Carlin

  Sports, Jesus, Stupid

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• I'm still vegetarian - no, pescatarian, because I eat fish. I eat pretty much vegan at home, but when I'm on the road, I'm a bit more flexible. That was the kind of thing I learned as I got older - being flexible with it and listening to my body.

  Amanda Crew

  Home, Listening, Body

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• To me, it doesn't matter if your scapegoats are the Jews, the homosexuals, the male sex, the Masons, the Jesuits, the Welfare Parasites, the Power Elite, the female sex, the vegetarians, or the Communist Party. To the extent that you need a scapegoat, you simply have not got your brain programmed to work as an efficient problem-solving machine.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Sex, Party, Brain

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• Most vegetarians look so much like the food they eat that they can be classified as cannibals.

  Finley Peter Dunne

  Sarcastic, Food, Sarcasm

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• Political scientist Herfried Münkler is right: If you only take normative positions, if your focus is solely on values, you won't find success in a world where others are relentlessly pursuing their interests. In a world full of meat-eaters, vegetarians have a tough time.

  Sigmar Gabriel

  Focus, Tough Times, Political

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• Violence begins with the fork.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Violence, Animal Rights, Vegan

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• Caesar's armies marched on vegetarian foods.

  Will Durant

  Army, Vegetables, Vegetarian Food

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• The standard four food groups are based on American agricultural lobbies. Why do we have a milk group? Because we have a National Dairy Council. Why do we have a meat group? Because we have an extremely powerful meat lobby.

  Marion Nestle

  Funny Inspirational, Powerful, Four

  "Feeding Frenzy" by Laura Shapiro, www.newsweek.com. May 26, 1991.

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• Adina gave a little shriek. "That fish just swam past my leg! Creepy! Where did it go?" "To your right! Two o'clock! Get it!" "You are officially the most bloodthirsty vegetarian ever.

  Libba Bray

  Past, Two, Creepy

  Libba Bray (2011). “Beauty Queens”, p.147, Scholastic Inc.

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• The sort of man who likes to spend his time watching a cage of monkeys chase one another, or a lion gnaw its tail, or a lizard catch flies, is precisely the sort of man whose mental weakness should be combated at the public expense, not fostered.

  H. L. Mencken

  Men, Weakness, Tails

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• If man is able to live healthily as a vegetarian but chooses not to be one, then man is guilty of eating meat!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Men, Meat, Able

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• Being vegan or vegetarian isn't just about compassion for animals. Most of the destruction of the planet is the result of all the clear-cutting, groundwater contamination, grain production, fuel consumption, greenhouse gas, viral proliferation - the direct result of livestock production.

  William McNamara

  Cutting, Compassion, Animal

  "Animal Activist and Star of Copycat William McNamara: On Killing Dolphins and Eating Sushi". Interview with Barbi Twins, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• In its sacredness, families get together to (unintentionally?) celebrate one genocide (against Native Americans) by committing another (against turkeys).

  Daniel Brook

  Native American, Turkeys, Together

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• I was diagnosed with an early, early stage of prostate cancer. I was almost a vegetarian then. I was heading that direction. What pushed me over the edge, was the doctor who did the diagnosis. He said in a discussion about prostate cancer that he had never seen a vegetarian with prostate cancer. And this is not a holistic doctor, this is a regular, mainstream doctor. And I was just blown away.

  Michael Dorn

  Cancer, Doctors, Diagnosis

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• I brainwashed youngsters into doing wrong. I want to say sorry to children everywhere for selling out to people who make millions by murdering other living creatures.

  Geoffrey Giuliano

  Children, Sorry, People

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• I think of veganism humbly and holistically. It's about taking personal responsibility in a world so full of needless suffering. It's challenging one's self to open one's eyes and question society's assumptions and habits. It's about critical thinking and compassion and how we would like to see the world evolve.

  Michael Greger

  Eye, Responsibility, Thinking

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• I'm still the same person I've always been. I can't say exactly what I'll do; I'm an excessive person. Talk about violence-----I don't do anything violent. Talk about violence, what's going on in Nicaragua? What's going on in El Salvador? That's violent. What are they doing to the planet with chemicals and acid rain? That's violent. What are people doing to each other? Raping. That's violent. I'm striking out at ac icon that has no life. There's a big difference between what has life and what doesn't. I mean. I've been a vegetarian for 16 years.

  Wendy O. Williams

  Rain, Mean, Years

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

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Eating Together, Together, Eating

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