Vegetarian Quotes - Page 28

• Are there any vegetarians among cannibals?

  Bill Vaughan

  Cannibal

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• Vegetarians, dropping meat, tend to fill up with too much starch. This leaves them no more healthy than meat-eaters, with constipation, indigestion, colds, catarrhs, coughs and chest complaints to plague them. Eating sparingly of breads, cakes, crackers, cookies, macaroni, spaghetti, anything largely starch, is a far step on the road to good health.

  Helen and Scott Nearing

  Vegetarianism, Cake, Healthy

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• I became a vegetarian because I was persuaded that life is as valid for other creatures as it is for humans. I do not need dead animal bodies to keep me alive, strong and healthy. Therefore, I will not kill for food.

  Helen and Scott Nearing

  Strong, Animal, Vegetarianism

  "The Making of a Radical: A Political Autobiography". Book by Scott Nearing, 1973.

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• I think once you start eating people you should stop claiming to be a vegetarian, even if you only eat bad people.

  James Nicoll

  Thinking, People, Eating

  Usenet article, 2003.

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• A pacifist between wars is like a vegetarian between meals.

  Ammon Hennacy

  War, Meals, Pacifist

  "Revolution Of The Heart: Essays On the Catholic Worker". Book edited by Patrick G. Coy, 1988.

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• For their own good, vegetarians should never be allowed near fine beers and ales. It will only make them loud and belligerent, and they lack the physical strength and aggressive nature to back up any drunken assertions.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Drinking, Beer, Ale

  Anthony Bourdain (2010). “The Nasty Bits: Collected Cuts, Useable Trim, Scraps and Bones”, p.88, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• I meditated on my own for some time, read spiritual books, became a vegetarian and had incredible experiences every day, every meditation, where I was just thrown into the infinite - never realizing that other people didn't necessarily have those experiences in meditation that quickly.

  Frederick Lenz

  Spiritual, Book, People

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• But I'm also a vegetarian so there's another factor I guess.

  Radha Mitchell

  Factors

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• The moment I began to understand what was going on with the treatment of animals, it led me more and more in the way of the path I am [on] now, which is a complete vegan.

  Bryan Adams

  Animal, Way, Path

  "Bryan Adams on Animal Rights and Being Vegan". Interview with Anne C, www.peta.org.uk. January 07, 2007.

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• The hippopotamus is a vegetarian and looks like a wall. Lions who eat only red meat are sleek and slim. Are nutritionists on the wrong track?

  Erma Bombeck

  Wall, Food, Track

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• Vegetarian: Indian word for lousy hunter.

  Andy Rooney

  Food, Cooking, Hunters

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• Im a Tibetan monk, not a vegetarian.

  Dalai Lama

  Monk, Tibetan

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• I continue to be amazed by our bodies' ability for self-repair. ... Our bodies want to be healthy, if we would just let them. That's what these new research articles are showing: Even after years of beating yourself up with a horrible diet, your body can reverse the damage, open back up the arteries-even reverse the progression of some cancers. Amazing! So it's never too late to start exercising, never too late to stop smoking and never too late to start eating healthier.

  Michael Greger

  Cancer, Exercise, Self

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• I get nostalgic about having lived in Ames, Iowa, even though being a vegetarian in Iowa is not fun.

  John Darnielle

  Fun, Iowa, Nostalgic

  "The Mountain Goats". Interview with Larry Fitzmaurice, pitchfork.com. October 1, 2012.

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• Until a vegan or vegetarian enters the room, people don't see themselves as meat-eaters. They are merely 'eaters', and it is we vegans who have made them aware of what they are doing. Often this is discomforting.

  Carol J. Adams

  Food, People, Feminist

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• I became a vegetarian 55 years ago, and I think it's one of the more important behavioral changes I ever took. The more I see of the beef industry and so on, I believe that to be true.

  John Elkington

  Believe, Thinking, Years

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• My name, as you may have guessed, is Theodore. I come from a strange stock. The members of my family were mostly epileptics, vegetarians, stutterers, triplets, nailbiters. But we've always been happy.

  Brother Theodore

  Names, May, Strange

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• I have been a vegetarian for forty-two years. I did it because I didn't want animals to die so I could eat. Then, eight to ten years ago, when I found out the life of a dairy cow is way worse than the life of a beef cow, I understood I had to switch to complete veganism. Otherwise, I would be very inconsistent in my beliefs that animals shouldn't be abused for food.

  Sam Simon

  Animal, Years, Two

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• I decline to go fox hunting.

  Princess Diana

  Hunting, Foxes, Decline

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• I've never dated anyone because they were vegetarian, just like I'm gay but don't only go to gay bars. I hang out with people because they are fun, smart, and kind, and if they happen to be veg I'm thrilled.

  Dan Mathews

  Fun, Smart, Gay

  "Senior VP of PETA Dan Mathews: On gay rights, empathy for animals, and getting married under the Las Vegas sign". Interview with Barbi Twins, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• He soon acquired the forlorn look that one sees in vegetarians.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Looks, One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Forlorn

  "Love in the Time of Cholera". Book by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, www.theguardian.com. 1985.

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• It is man who has fallen, not the beasts: that is the message even for the irreligious, and to some extent salvation can be measured by his very treatment of them.

  Roy Fuller

  Men, Messages, Christianity

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• Ethics is in its unqualified form extended responsibility with regard to everything that has life.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Respect, Responsibility, Vegetarianism

  "Civilization and Ethics".

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• I know that it is a hopeless undertaking to debate about fundamental value judgements. For instance, if someone approves, as a goal, the extirpation of the human race from the earth, one cannot refute such a viewpoint on rational grounds. But if there is agreement on certain goals and values, one can argue rationally about the means by which these objectives may be obtained.

  Albert Einstein

  Mean, Race, Agreement

  Albert Einstein (1970). “Out of my later years”, Greenwood Pub Group

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• I love animals. All animals. I wouldn't hurt a cat or a dog — or a chicken, or a cow. And I wouldn't ask someone else to hurt them for me. That's why I'm a vegetarian.

  Peter Dinklage

  Dog, Hurt, Cat

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